AUGUST 2017 FORBES INDONESIA | 69raising the level of integrity in the
next generation of business leaders,
is the result of his decades running
his food-manufacturing business,
which gave him a front-seat view of
the murky dealings that led to Indo-
nesia’s financial crisis in 1997.JAPAN
Shigenobu Nagamori 72
FOUNDER & CEO, NIDEC
Fulfilling a long-time dream, in
March he announced a $90 mil-
lion gift to set up an engineering
program and a facility at Kyoto
Gakuen University. The plan is to
launch the program in 2020 with
200 undergraduate students—
half from overseas—and up to 100
graduate students.Akio Nitori 73
CEO, NITORI HOLDINGS
With a gift of his company’s shares,
the billionaire discount-home-fur-
nishings retailer started the Nitori
International Scholarship Founda-
tion more than a decade ago. The
main goal was to help graduate
students from around Asia to attend
Japan’s top universities. In 2014
the foundation, which holds a 3.5%
stake in Nitori worth more than
$660 million, started making grants
to colleges in the U.S., Taiwan and
Vietnam for scholarships.Yukiyoshi Watanabe 53
FOUNDER & CEO, ISFNET
The information-technology en-
trepreneur launched the nonprofit
Future Dream Achievement orga-
nization in 2010, and it’s helped
more than 4,000 jobless or under-
employed young adults and people
with disabilities gain full-time
employment. Its programs, which
run from three to nine months,
help people learn job, interviewing
and office-software skills, as well
as introducing them to potential
employers. Other programs help
workers maintain their mentalhai; the museum is named for him.
It includes such treasures as Mughal
miniatures and a 16th-century Per-
sian manuscript from the library of
the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. An
annex showcases the couple’s con-
temporary Indian art collection and
includes a cultural center and an ex-
hibition space for young artists.
Anand Mahindra 62
CHAIRMAN, MAHINDRA GROUP
Has donated millions of dollars over
the years to causes such as educat-
ing girls, providing clean drinking
water and supporting tribal farm-
ers. Chairs the Naandi Foundation,
which has spawned three for-profit
social businesses. The first is a joint
venture with danone.communities
to set up low-cost drinking-water
plants across the country, serving
more than 700,000 customers. His
second, in partnership with the Mi-
chael & Susan Dell Foundation, of-
fers afterschool support to students
in city slums through a tech platform.
The third, Araku, works with tribal
farmers by connecting them to global
markets. It has helped farmers con-
vert wasteland into plantations pro-
ducing premium coffee. In 2010, he
donated $10 million to Harvard to set
up the Mahindra Humanities Center.
Rajiv Mehta 56
MANAGING DIRECTOR,
SURAT DIAMOND JEWELLERY
His Ratna Nidhi Trust, set up by his
late father 50 years ago, focuses on
the disabled by distributing the Jai-
pur Foot, the famed artificial limb, in
Mumbai. Field trials are under way
for a 3-D-printed artificial leg that
the trust developed with the help of
the Indian Institute of Technology,
Bombay, and which won a Google
Impact Challenge for Disabilities
award in 2015. The $1.2 million an-
nual budget also covers a Food for
Education program that distributes
free meals to disadvantaged children
studying in 37 Mumbai schools that
are not covered by the government’s
midday-meal program. The World
Bank and Alibaba have backed Meh-
ta’s mission of donating 1 million
educational books to 10,000 schools
and colleges in India by 2021. He
also offers scholarships to children
of terrorist-attack victims.INDONESIA
Rikrik Rizkiyana 46
SENIOR PARTNER, ASSEGAF
HAMZAH & PARTNERS LAW FIRM
Cofounded a boarding school for
gifted children from poor families.
Donated $1.2 million and has raised
another $600,000. The Cugenang
Gifted School in Cianjur, West Java,
opened in 2010 and now has 23 stu-
dents. Applicants must have an IQ of
130 and be younger than 9. Students
receive a free education, room and
board through high school; parents
are allowed to visit anytime. The
school accepts students of all reli-
gious beliefs. It helps fill a gap in a
national system that doesn’t provide
specialized education for exception-
ally bright children. “We give our
best to direct every gifted kid into a
proper understanding of the world,
of the people as well as of kindness
and humility,” he says.Harry Susilo 77
FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, SEKAR
GROUP
Launched the Susilo Institute for
Ethics in a Global Economy at Bos-
ton University and established a
permanent, multimillion-dollar
endowment to fund classes for
students in Boston and research
work around the world. Both of
his daughters graduated from BU.
The institute is developing a global
network of researchers who ex-
amine the business philosophies
and practices of different cultures
and discuss their findings at an an-
nual symposium; the first was held
in Surabaya last year, the second
in Boston last month. His mission,