Salim Group

The Salim Group is the largest conglomerate in Indonesia. The group was of Sudono Salim (also Sodoeno Salim, Lin Shao liang ) from the Chinese province of Fujian, a confidant of former President Suharto, was founded.

The Salim Group is involved in Indofood Sukses Mamur, the world's largest instant noodle manufacturer, as well as Bogasari, a large milling companies. Furthermore, the Salim Group is active in the areas of agriculture, construction, finance, media, communication, and in the automotive industry. The Salim Group has several large oil palm plantations ( about 1000 km ²) and logging concessions. In 1999, the group broke talks about a sale of its stake in Indofood from because of the supervisory rights. They should be sold to the San Miguel Corp.. , The largest food and beverage conglomerate in the Philippines. In the food sector, the Salim Group also controls the water supply of Manila.

Presence in West Bengal

The Salim Group also maintains projects in West Bengal, for example, to build the Kolkata West International City. The Salim Group and Universal Success in this project are the investors, Ciputra is responsible for developing and Shengbang from Singapore the project management. Furthermore, the Salim Group on New Kolkata International Development, a chemistry center in Nayachar as a joint venture project of the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation Ltd.. and involved in other smaller companies. On 14 March 2007, it came after protests from approximately 2000 inhabitants of Nandigram region in which this chemistry center was originally created in a special economic zone of 57 km ², serious clashes with about 3,000 police officers that killed 14 villagers and 70 were injured.