Prajogo Pangestu is a successful Indonesian businessman. Born in Sambas, West Kalimantan, 1944, Prajogo Pangestu has been dubbed as a timber tycoon and runs Barito Pacific. Before establishing his company, he worked at PT Djajanti Group, owned by Burhan Uray, in 1969, and then became General Manager of PT Plywood Nusantara’s factory in Gresik, East Java, in 1976.