Interview: Indonesia's Lippo embarks on radical revamp

Iconic group to focus on real estate and health; other operations may be sold

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John Riady, the 34-year old heir apparent of Indonesian conglomerate Lippo, is launching a radical strategic revamp of the group. (Photo by Manami Yamada) 

WATARU SUZUKI and JUN SUZUKI, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- In a strategic revamp Lippo Group, the sprawling Indonesian conglomerate, plans to divide in two, a senior executive said: a core group of real estate and health care businesses, and a non-core group of operations, some of which "we should sell completely."

The radical overhaul comes as one of Asia's biggest conglomerates readies for what it believes will be a period of slow economic growth and what John Riady, the group's heir apparent, calls the "end of one of the biggest credit cycles in modern economic history."

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