Mochtar Riady, born Lie Mo Tie (; born 12 May 1929) is an Indonesian financial magnate and the founder and chairman emeritus of

Lippo Group Lippo Group is an Indonesian multinational conglomerate company. The company operates internationally providing property development and management services. It was founded by Mochtar Riady. Lippo has a collective presence across Asia and Nor ...

. He was born in

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to a

Chinese Indonesian Chinese Indonesians ( id, Orang Tionghoa Indonesia) and colloquially Chindo or just Tionghoa are Indonesians whose ancestors arrived from China at some stage in the last eight centuries. Chinese people and their Indonesian descendants have ...

family. At five months old, his parents took him to his father's ancestral village in Fujian where he lived until he was six years old.

Early life

Riady's father was a batik trader named Liapi (

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), while his mother was named Sibelau (

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1937 Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...

). Both of his parents migrated from Fujian and arrived in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Riady, Mochtar 1929 births Converts to Christianity from Buddhism Living people Indonesian billionaires Indonesian businesspeople Indonesian Christians Indonesian people of Chinese descent Nanjing University alumni Indonesian Hokkien people