Feud Erupts Over Inheritance of $46 Billion Indonesia Empire
- Lawsuit seeks to split Sinar Mas family fortune among children
- Sinar Mas dismisses claims by founder’s son born of ‘wedlock’
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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 recognize 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. The claim was filed on June 16 and lists Indra Widjaja, Teguh Ganda Widjaja, Muktar Widjaja, Djafar Widjaja and Franky Oesman Widjaja as defendants.