Mayapada

The Mayapada Group is an Indonesian-based conglomerate founded by Dato Sri Tahir in 1986. Tahir started this with a garment and textile manufacturing business, and four years later, he founded Bank Mayapada .[1] The garment business no longer exists. The bank went public at the Jakarta Stock Exchange and survived the 1997 economic crisis and managed to expand further after the crisis. With foreign investment partners from the US, UAE and Singapore, the bank now has over 100 branches throughout Indonesia, and in 2007 has been voted as the second best public bank outside state-owned banks by InfoBank magazine, a banking magazine in Indonesia. Mayapada also concerns;

Tahir is a Christian and lives in Jakarta with his family. He has also been appointed as a Board of Trustee at the University of California, Berkeley, becoming the first man from Southeast Asia to hold this position. In summer 2008, Tahir was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from a university in Surabaya, Indonesia.

Donation

On April 2011, Tahir donated $1 million to the University of California, Berkeley for international student fellowships for students in the full-time MBA program at Berkeley-Haas. He was a member of the university's board of trustees.[2]

Business units

References

  1. ↑ "Bank Mayapada". Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/04/28/ri-tycoon-donates-1m-uc-berkeley.html

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