A Person Is An Inspirational Person

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Everyone definitely has their own inspirational person, who can be their motivation and inspiration to achieve their life’s goals. In addition, the story of those inspirational people can also become the example for other people to determine what should they do in the future, in order to achieve their goals as successful as their idols. Even though there are a lot of inspirational people who have been recognized internationally, yet there is only one person that has inspired me, who comes from my home country. His name is Chairul Tanjung, who is famous as a successful businessman and owner of many big companies. Yet, his successes were not achieved easily without any big efforts and experiences that he had gone through. In addition, his personality …show more content…

Chairul Tanjung was born in a financially stable family, until his father, who used to be a journalist for his own newspaper business, had to close his business and suffer from poverty. Yet, it does not make chairul tanjung be give up on his in life and start to get money for himself to complete his college by selling some stuffs on his campus, such as t-shirt, text book, pencil, and even business copy on campus. Even though his business has ups and downs, but luckily he can get enough profit to support his college needs. By having the money that he got from his business, in 1987, he and his three other colleagues opened a business, which called PT Pariarti Shindutama to produce kids shoes to be exported (Sihabuddin, 2013). Although this business runs well, the vision differences force them to be split up and make Chairul Tanjung has to open his owned business. Because of his confidence and hard working, Chairul Tanjung has got many experience that make him become a successful entrepreneur and grow his business better. Thus, he has inspired me to not giving up on something that I want to …show more content…

Chairul Tanjung has made a lot of changes for the growth of Indonesian economy from the businesses that he has established, such as business in entertainment, bank, property, and lifestyle. It is because by his confidence to open some business, he has created a lot of job opportunities for the Indonesian people. In fact, he has given a chance for more than 75,000 people in Indonesia to get a job (Sirno, 2015). As a result, the Indonesian’s welfare has increasing and gives them a better life above the poverty line. Another contribution that he has done is by developing any local businesses to the international market by cooperating them with the other multinational companies. Those actions make me amazed because of his bravery to make the local businesses become competitive internationally and bring more source of income for Indonesia. Not only focusing on his welfare, but Chairul Tanjung also care about his country’s economy. Chairul Tanjung is just such a caring person that makes me amazed by his kindness towards improving the Indonesian

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