Family feud in Sinar Mas


Kin tussle: Aerial view of one of Sinar Mas’ oil palm plantations in West Kalimantan. A feud has erupted over billions of dollars worth of businesses in the conglomerate. — AFP

JAKARTA: A feud has erupted over the inheritance of billions of dollars of businesses controlled by Indonesia’s Sinar Mas, with one of the children of the group’s late founder seeking a share of the empire spanning palm oil to banking and property.

Freddy Widjaja, a son of the late tycoon Eka Tjipta Widjaja, asked the Central Jakarta district court to recognise him and five of his siblings as legal heirs to Eka and designate a dozen companies and their assets as their inheritance, the court said on its website.

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