Jakarta –
Jusuf Kalla (JK) has recently been in the spotlight and has spoken in various media to comment on political issues. JK is indeed known to the public as a national figure who has served as vice president twice.
Actually identity JK is an entrepreneur. He owns a business empire called the Kalla Group.
Summarized by detikcom, Monday (11/23/2020), in the JK leadership era, there were 36 businesses including the printing business and the barber business. However, these efforts did not all run smoothly.
The Kalla Group has a business in the automotive industry by trading the Toyota brand in Eastern Indonesia through the PT Hadji Kalla (Kalla Toyota) flag. JK said that sales of the Toyota brand were done earlier than Astra.
Business Call The Group also includes steel, cement and textile businesses. In 1964, when Indonesia was hit by an economic crisis and massive inflation, the business was also affected and almost went bankrupt. Young JK, who had just joined at that time, racked his brains to look for other, more developed businesses in the future.
“When I entered, there was only one employee left. I saw that the need for cars would continue to increase. I wrote and visited Toyota and eventually became a dealer in Sulawesi,” said JK in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Saturday (11/11/2018).
Kalla Group companies also focus on infrastructure, such as the asphalt construction business at PT Bumi Karsa or at PT Bukaka Teknik Utama which focuses on building towers and bridges. This is in accordance with the philosophy instilled in the Kalla Group, which is to develop Indonesia in the eastern part.
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