Moving Forward with Our Nation
Year 2010, marks the 50th anniversary of AKR Group. We take pride in having built extensive logistics networks in two of the modern consumer giants - Indonesia and more recently in China enabling us to become the largest distributor of chemicals as well as handling bulk and container cargoes from strategic sea and river port sites.
Leveraging our network we have become the first and leading private sector distributor of petroleum fuels in Indonesia – a market with significant potential as Government is committed to its de-regulation.
We have grown to become World’s Second largest producer of Sorbitol exporting to multinational companies in over 70 countries. Sorbitol and starch derivatives are produced from tapioca, which grows widely in Indonesia. Indonesia’s vast land reserves offers a sustainable opportunity for our agro based manufacturing group.
And we are still investing – recently acquiring control over thermal coal mining rights in Kalimantan – once again drawing on our existing network and logistics expertise to connect the mine to the customer.
In all of these diverse yet vital businesses there is a unifying theme: it is our recurring habit of being early to invest, quick to anticipate and alert to the advantages of change.
Our operations in Indonesia and China are strategic. Our home base is the biggest economy in South East Asia, and we also are in the fastest growth economy in the world, China.
AKR may be 50 today, but it is still a young group in a young country with the spirit and enterprise associated with the new world.
