# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eka-tjipta-widjaja
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:01:30.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eka-tjipta-widjaja"
name: "Eka Tjipta Widjaja"
slug: "eka-tjipta-widjaja"
description: "Eka Tjipta Widjaja or Eka Tjipta Widjaya, born Oei Ek Tjong, was an Indonesian businessman who founded the Sinar Mas Group, one of the largest conglomerates in Indonesia. After immigrating to Indonesia with his family when he was a child, Widjaja became a member of the PCC, traded copra in the mid-1950s, moved into the palm oil industry soon after, started a paper factory in the 1970s, and then entered financial services in the 1980s. At the time of his death, Sinar Mas had interests in paper, real estate, financial services, agribusiness, and telecom with holdings primarily in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and China, and Widjaja was listed by Forbes as the third-richest person in Indonesia with an estimated net worth of US$8.6 billion."
tagline: "Indonesian businessman (1923-2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Indonesia"
  isoCode: "ID"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1923-10-03"
deathDate: "2019-01-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.38
  momentum:             0.05493562231759657
  historical:           8.277518666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BB%83%E5%A5%95%E8%81%B0"
    title: "黃奕聰"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eka_Tjipta_Widjaja"
    title: "Eka Tjipta Widjaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eka_Tjipta_Widjaja"
    title: "Eka Tjipta Widjaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7_%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%BE%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%A7"
    title: "ایکا تیپتا دیداجا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eka_Tjipta_Widjaja"
    title: "Eka Tjipta Widjaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eka_Tjipta_Widjaja"
    title: "Eka Tjipta Widjaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eka_Tjipta_Widjaja"
    title: "Eka Tjipta Widjaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eka_Tjipta_Widjaja"
    title: "Eka Tjipta Widjaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eka_Tjipta_Widjaja"
    title: "Eka Tjipta Widjaja"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1322162"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump