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Minggu, 26 April 2015
Hello guys, I want to tell you about the founder of
AQUA. I want to give a picture of him for my revision.
TIRTO
UTOMO
Do you know aqua? It is a brand of
bottled water from Indonesia. The founder of Aqua is Sien Biauw Kwa or Tirto
Utomo. He is one of the successful businessman from Indonesia. He was born on
March 8th, 1930 in Wonosobo. He has studied in Magelang for Junior High School.
He reached the school by bicycle everyday. Then, he went to HBS School (Senior
High School at the time of the Dutch East Indies). He had studied in Semarang
for 2 years, before he moved to Malang. At this time, he met Kwee Gwat Kien or
Lisa.
Tirto Utomo has studied for 2 years
at Gajah Mada University in Surabaya. He has worked as a journalist at “Jawa
Pos Newspaper” during his study. Tirto eventually moved to the Faculty of Law
in University of Indonesia. He was working as a Chief Editor of the Daily Sin
Po and Five Colors Magazine when he studied at university. He also met Lisa in
University of Indonesia. Lisa was also working at British American Tobacco (BAT
Indonesia) when she studied. She dropped out from university, after she had
failed on her final exam. In 1955, Lisa taught elementary students at Regina
Pecis.
Tirto Utomo and Lisa got married on
December, 21th 1957 in Malang. The big problem came in 1959, Tirto dismissed
from Sin Po as an editor. However, he had the willingness to finish his study
from University of Indonesia. October 1960, Tirto graduated and hold a law of
degree. After graduation, Tirto worked in Permina (Perusahaan Minyak Nasional).
He was placed in “Pangkalan Brandan”. There, the daily need was using water
from a river.
Tirto Utomo got an idea to build
Aqua when (while) he was entertaining delegates from U.S. company. The
dinner was interrupted when the delegation’s wife had diarrhea caused by
consuming water. Tirto realized that the guests from Western countries are not
used to drinking boiled water, but water that has been sterilized. Tirto Utomo
sure that Indonesian’s people will lack clean water ready to drink.
Tirto and his brother have begun to
learn how to process packaged drinking water since this incident. Tirto’s
brother worked in Polaris (A bottled water company in Thailand) to learn how
made a bottled water. So, In 1973 PT Aqua Golden Mississippi is built. Tirto
Utomo already died in 1994. Tirto Utomo already make a manufacturer of bottled
water which is the largest in Indonesia.
