Low Tuck Kwong

Net worth: $20.2 Billlion

Chinese Name: 刘德光

Ancestral Home: Guangdong

Age: 77

Nationality: Indonesian

Main Industries: Coal/Energy

Founder and President Director of PT Bayan Resources, one of Indonesia's largest coal producers and port operators. Born in Singapore in 1948, he moved to Indonesia in 1972 and founded a construction company the following year before expanding into coal mining in 1988. He founded Bayan Resources in 2004, and the company began trading publicly on the Indonesian stock exchange in 2008. He controls a 62% stake in Bayan directly and through his children, and the company sold about 56.9 million metric tons of coal in 2024, reporting revenue of $3.4 billion. Beyond coal, Low is also the largest shareholder of Metis Energy, a Singapore-based renewable energy company, holding a 78% stake.

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