Sugiri is a co-founder and president director of DCI Indonesia, a data center operator. The Jakarta-based company has nine data centers in five cities and reported revenue of 2.5 trillion rupiah ($154 million) in 2025. Sugiri is also a co-founder of Indointernet, Indonesia's first internet service provider.
The majority of Sugiri's fortune is derived from his stake in DCI Indonesia, a data center operator. The company has nine data centers in five cities across Indonesia, according to its website.
He owns a 30% stake directly, according to a March 2026 stock exchange filing.
Cash holding is based on an analysis of insider transactions, dividends, market performance and taxes.
Sugiri was born in September 1953 in Bandung, the capital city of Indonesia's West Java province. He studied in Germany as a teenager and obtained a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a master's in computer engineering from RWTH Aachen University.
In 1980, Sugiri returned to Indonesia to take care of his mother. He started working as a software programmer in an oil company and managed loan disbursements for a United Nations agency. Three years later, he joined his uncle's bank and developed its IT system.
Sugiri founded a software company in 1989. He was later joined by six former employees from the bank including Marina Budiman, who would become one of the richest women in Indonesia. In 1994, Sugiri co-founded Indointernet, the country's first internet service provider.
In 2011, he established DCI Indonesia with Budiman and five others. DCI was listed on the country's bourse in January 2021.
Sugiri sold his 17% stake in Indointernet for about $75 million in 2023 to Singapore-based peer Digital Edge.