As Founder and Chairman Sukanto Tanoto celebrates his 50th year as an entrepreneur, we take a look back at the many milestones in his journey of building the business and partnering with communities. In this article, we feature the journey’s humble beginnings in a small spare parts supply shop in Medan, Indonesia. On a fine […]
Sukanto Tanoto Encourages Research in Asian Family Business and Entrepreneurship Studies
Supporting entrepreneurship among Asia’s family businesses is a topic close to the heart of Tanoto Foundation Founder Sukanto Tanoto. From his first foray into the world of business 50 years ago in Medan, Indonesia to chairing RGE–a company that manages a group of resource-based manufacturing companies with operations the world over–Sukanto Tanoto‘s family has been […]
RGE Chairman Sukanto Tanoto Marks 50 Years in Business by Launching Core Values
Employees at RGE (Royal Golden Eagle) and its business groups who have heard Founder & Chairman Sukanto Tanoto in-person are familiar with his refrain that it is not only by the legal licenses obtained from the government that its companies across the world are allowed to operate, but the social license earned by partnering local […]
The Best Around: RGE Employees Capture the 5Cs in Their Winning Photos
In this week’s edition of Inside RGE, we feature the employees whose photos adorn July to September in our 2017 desktop calendar. These winners have so aptly and lovingly captured 5Cs business philosophy espoused by RGE Founder & Chairman Sukanto Tanoto — Good for Community, Country, Climate, Customer, and Company — in last year’s contest […]
[Guest Blog] More than a Dream: GCNS and Yale-NUS Visit Kerinci (Part 3)
Editor’s Note: This post was contributed by Ong Kok Chung, a 21 year old advocate for the environment who recently helped organise the Global Compact Network Singapore Youth Forum. He is a freshman at the National University of Singapore. As part of the follow-up event for Global Compact Network Singapore (GCNS) Youth Forum, I was […]
Fighting the Good Fight: Tanoto Foundation Boosts Fight Against Cancer
Few words exist that strike as much fear in our hearts as the word cancer. In Asia, the fight is even harder with the prevalence of cancers specific to the region. Unfortunately, we still lack of information in mainstream medical literature, most of which are still Western-centric. With the help of the Tanoto Foundation, one […]
RGE Celebrates 50 Years in Business
RGE 50 celebrations kicked off with a three-day celebration in Medan, Indonesia. It was in Medan where a young Sukanto Tanoto started his entrepreneurial journey under difficult family circumstances. Five decades later, RGE manages a successful group of world-class resource-based companies with over US$18 billion in assets and 60,000 employees. Over three days, nearly 400 senior employees […]
[Guest Blog] More than a Dream: GCNS and Yale-NUS Visit Kerinci
Editor’s Note: This post was contributed by Rachel Ann Kenyon who was part of the GCNS Youth Forum. Rachel is a 20 year old second year student at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. On a breezy Monday morning, a small team of Global Compact Network Singapore (GCNS) volunteers took a 40-minute flight to the Indonesian island […]
APRIL Community Development Programme Fosters the Entrepreneurial Spirit
APRIL is known for its energy efficient mills that have an annual production capacity of 2.8 million tonnes for pulp and 1.15 million tonnes for paper. But apart from having one of the world’s largest integrated pulp and paper mills, APRIL is also widely admired for its emphasis on sustainable development and holistic community-centric initiatives. The […]
Fighting the Good Fight: Tanoto Foundation Boosts Fight Against Diabetes
Diabetes is often known as a silent killer — surreptitious and debilitating. And while many suffer from the disease, not everyone suffers in the same way. Some patients are resigned to a lifetime of medicine and insulin injections resulting in high medical bills and lowered quality of life; others suffer from painful complications from the disease. […]