Surya Wonowidjojo was an Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

n-born Chinese

Chinese people

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 businessman.

Wonowidjojo, sometimes spelt Wonowidjoyo, was a Chinese Indonesian

Chinese Indonesian

Chinese Indonesians, also called the Indonesian Chinese, are an overseas Chinese group whose ancestors emigrated from China to Indonesia, formerly a colony of the Netherlands known as the Dutch East Indies...

 (Hokchia totok) born Tjoa Ing Hwie or Tjoa Jien Hwie in Yinxi (音西), Fuqing

Fuqing

Fuqing is a county-level city of Fuzhou in Fujian, China.It is located in the eastern part of the province, borders the East China Sea, just southeast of Fuzhou and 45 kilometers from Changle International Airport of Fuzhou. Fuqing city has geographical advantage, for its location between...

 in Fujian

Fujian

' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...

 Province, China. He was the founder of Gudang Garam, a major Indonesian kretek

Kretek

Kretek are cigarettes made with a blend of tobacco, cloves and other flavors. The word "kretek" itself is an onomatopoetic term for the crackling sound of burning cloves. Haji Jamahri, a resident of Kudus, Java, created kreteks in the early 1880s as a means to deliver the eugenol of cloves to the...

(clove cigarette) manufacturer, and father of billionaire Rachman Halim

Rachman Halim

Rachman Halim was a Chinese Indonesian businessman.Halim was born Tjoa To Hing in Kediri, East Java to a prominent Chinese Indonesian family...

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Wonowidjojo's family first migrated to Sampang, Madura

Madura

Madura is an Indonesian island off the northeastern coast of Java. The island comprises an area of approximately 4,250 km². Madura is administered as part of the East Java province. It is separated from Java by the narrow Strait of Madura.-History:...

 when Surya was four years old. When his father died, he moved to Kediri, East Java

Kediri, East Java

Kediri is an Indonesian city, located near the Brantas River in the province of East Java on the island of Java.Archaeological artefacts discovered in 2007 appeared to indicate that the region around Kediri may have been the location of the Kediri kingdom, a Hindu kingdom in the 11th century.The...

 where he worked for his uncle who was a kretek manufacturer.

Wonowidjojo founded Gudang Garam in Kediri

Kediri

Kediri or Kadiri was a Hindu Javanese Kingdom based in East Java from 1042 to around 1222. Despite the lack of archaeological remains, the age of Kediri saw much development in classical literature....

in 1965 and headed the company until handing control to his son in 1984.