Chairul Tanjung born in Jakarta, June 16, 1962, in the family is enough. His father A.G.

Tanjung is old
order era journalist who publishes a small circulation newspapers. Chairul are in a family with six other
siblings. When arriving in the New Order era, his father's business was forced to close due to politically
opposed to the rulers at that time. The situation is forcing parents to sell the house and move to stay in
the room inn which narrow.

Chairul Tanjung is a businessman from Indonesia. His name is widely known as a successful businessman
with the company he leads, the Group. Chairul has started doing business when he attended from the
Department of Dentistry, University of Indonesia. Had ups and downs, he eventually built a successful
business. His conglomerate, the Group becomes a business enterprise in charge of some other
companies such as Trans TV and Mega Bank

After finishing school in Boedi Oetomo senior high school in 1981, Chairul entered Department of
Dentistry, University of Indonesia (graduated 1987). When this college he entered the world business
began. And in college, he was honored as a National Model Student in 1984-1985. In order to meet the
needs of college, he starts a business from scratch that is selling textbooks stencils, shirts, opened a
photocopy and others on campus. Chairul also founded a medical supply store and laboratory numbers
Senen Raya, Central Jakarta, but it broke.

After college, Chairul have been established by PT Pariarti Shindutama with three colleagues in 1987.
Capitalized initial USD 150 million from Exim Bank, they produce children's shoes for export. Luck sided
with him, because the company immediately received orders of 160 thousand pairs of shoes from Italy.
However, due to differences in vision of expansion, Chairul choose separation and establish their own
business.

Renowned Forbes magazine released a list of the world's richest people 2010. As an achievement,
according to the magazine, Chairul one of the world's richest man from Indonesia. Forbes stated that
Chairul 937 ranks the world with total assets of U.S. $ 1 billion.