Actually I was not from SMAK-PA/GS Jakarta, since I was from SMAK-Sukabumi with Irene Tjoa Ay Ling (Ying Vahl) and Willy Pouw (Loeke’s older brother) as well, but not in the same class and year.
After the SMA in 1962, I left for Jakarta and then continue studying at the University of Indonesia (UI), as I have not the chance to study abroad since my father have no power to do that.
Willy Pouw was finished SMA later in 1963 and we met each other afterwards in Jakarta and Loeke as well whenever she went back home while studying as pharmacist at Unpad-Bandung (Universitas Pajajaran)
I work for Kalbe Farma in the year 1967, while continue studying at UI and then graduated from UI-Faculty of Economy Extension Program majoring in Business Administration in 1971.
In this period I visited a lot to major cities as part of my job as Branch Controller (Medan, Padang, Palembang, Bandung,
Semarang, Surabaya, Denpasar, Banjarmasin, Makassar)
I met Lydia Lim at Kalbe and SengTjoan-Lim as well later on for many years, before they were living for USA.
After graduated as Pharmacist from Unpad, then Loeke also work for Kalbe Farma starting 1971 while she also work for FKUI (Fakultas Kedokteran-UI) bagian Farmakologi as part of the compulsory work which was applied at that time and later on was appointed as Pegawai Negeri until retired in 2002.
I married to Loeke in 1974 and we have 2 children, the older is a daughter Arlene (40) graduated from Berkley College of Music-Boston and married to Henky Erawan (MBA, IT Development Manager). They stay in Bedford, Massachussetts-USA and have 1 boy (Ethan 11 yr) and 1 girl (Kearsley 7,5 yr). The younger is a son Ardhya (37) graduated MBA in Finance from The City University of Seattle, married to Irene (Interior Designer) and stay in Jakarta and work for China Trust Bank, so far still have no children.
Thanks God that I had the chances to visit the children while they were studying abroad and join some tours as well to visit some places around USA, Europe and Asia.
Loeke then left Kalbe Farma in the year 1983, for good handling of our Apotek Business until we closed the business in 2010. I left Kalbe Farma in the year 1989 and move to work for Astra Agro Business of Astra Group. In this period I visited a lot to mainly the Palm Oil Estates project which were far from the big city and sometimes with very bad infrastructure to go. (Aceh, Riau, Kalimantan Timur, Sulawesi Barat & Jawa Barat, Jawa Tengah for the Tea and Cocoa Estates).
When William Soeryadjaya (the founder of Astra Group) had lost control of Astra in 1992, I then left Astra Agro Business and move to the William Family’s own Business Companies until retired in Dec. 2013 (at 71 years of age).
I am still playing tennis once a week and of course in double playing match without any pressure to win and I like swimming and traveling. Nowadays in the retirement period, we spend sometimes for doing social service activities in our Catholic Church - at Pulomas
SMAK Sukabumi
Sept 2008
Fam Kunardi - Juli 2012
