Indonesian Independence Fifty Years On 1945 1995 PDF Download

This is the remarkable story of Carlo Tabalujan. Beginning in pre-war Indonesia, we learn how, as a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, he was stranded without family or money, how he survived three and a half years of the Japanese occupation of Jakarta and how he then started out in business on his own, with nothing but a rented desk and a shared telephone. Carlo Tabalujan's account of life in Jakarta from December 1941 until the allied forces arrived in September 1945 is a unique first-hand account of what life was really like for the local population during the years of the Japanese occupation. His business experiences comprise a fascinating account from the point of view of an Indonesian businessman. The fluctuations in his trading achievements and the problems of developing manufacturing enterprises with a variety of western business partners, provide valuable lessons for anyone seeking to develop business in South East Asia. He offers an unusual insight into the philosophy on which a successful business career has been based through fifty years of uncertain times. Initiated out of a desire to express gratitude for the many people that have helped the author in his life, this book has developed into something much more that that. It is an invaluable and unique account of the fortunes and frustrations experienced by both the man and his country.