With an eye toward his future in the family business, Mr. Adikoesoemo was sent to the University of Bradford in Britain, where he earned a degree in business management. There wasn’t much discussion of art in the household, and in his youth Mr. Adikoesoemo wasn’t particularly interested in it. The friend “had so many artworks on the wall,” Mr. Adikoesoemo said. Mr. Adikoesoemo sold the Western artworks as part of a debt-restructuring deal with 28 foreign banks. If you can solve it, you solve it, it’s yours; if you cannot solve it, there is nothing for you,’” Mr. Adikoesoemo remembered.

Source: New York Times November 27, 2017 21:11 UTC