Anthoni Salim Net Worth: $10.6 Billion, Held One Step Removed From Indofood
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Anthoni Salim's net worth was $10.6 billion, per Forbes' Billionaires list reported by Kompas in early August 2026, making him the 4th richest person in Indonesia, behind Low Tuck Kwong, Prajogo Pangestu and Robert Budi Hartono, and just ahead of Sri Dato Tahir. He chairs the Salim Group, one of Indonesia's oldest conglomerates, and is CEO of Indofood, one of the world's largest instant noodle makers. Unlike several fortunes in this series, most of his wealth does not sit directly in his name. It sits inside a Hong Kong-listed holding company, one layer removed from the businesses that actually generate the profit.
| Publisher | Date | Figure | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forbes (via Kompas) | Early August 2026 | $10.6 billion | 4th richest in Indonesia |
| Bloomberg Billionaires Index (via Bloomberg Technoz) | 31 July 2026 | $12.3 billion | 5th richest in Indonesia, 274th world |
Forbes' figure, reported by Kompas on 3 August 2026 from Forbes' own Indonesia list, does not carry a stated world rank, only the domestic one. Bloomberg's figure, from Bloomberg Technoz's 31 July 2026 update, does: 274th richest in the world. The two publishers do not agree on the amount or even the domestic order, Forbes has Robert Budi Hartono 3rd and Salim 4th, while Bloomberg's late-July snapshot placed Salim 5th behind a slightly different top four. Consistent with this series' standing finding, we do not blend the two into a single before-and-after. What we can say inside Bloomberg's own tracker: his fortune had already shrunk 23.2%, or $3.7 billion, over the course of 2026 by the time of that 31 July snapshot.
Salim chairs and controls roughly 42% of First Pacific, a Hong Kong-listed investment holding company, according to First Pacific's own disclosures. First Pacific in turn holds stakes in Indofood Sukses Makmur (INDF), itself the roughly 80% parent of Indofood CBP Sukses Makmur (ICBP), and in PLDT, the Philippine telecom carrier. Both INDF and ICBP are confirmed present on NetWort's screener: /asset/INDF and /asset/ICBP.
A second, separate layer sits outside First Pacific entirely. Bloomberg names Amman Mineral Internasional (AMMN), an Indonesian copper and gold miner, as Salim's single largest asset, held through private vehicles: PT Sumber Gemilang Persada, which itself holds roughly 32% of AMMN, and PT Pesona Sukses Cemerlang, a majority Salim-owned entity that held a 4.53-billion-share, 6.26% stake in AMMN as of 9 March 2026 (CNBC Indonesia, 12 March 2026). AMMN is not currently on NetWort's screener, so it is named here without a link. That two-layer structure, a public holding company for the century-old food and telecom empire, and separate private vehicles for the newer mining stake, is the article's structural point: two different fortunes, both Salim's, sitting behind two different kinds of wall.
The 2026 decline Bloomberg's tracker recorded lines up with a rough year for the two listed operating companies. Indofood Sukses Makmur's net profit fell 19% year over year, a result Salim addressed publicly (CNBC Indonesia, 3 August 2026). Indofood CBP's first-half 2026 net profit fell 33%, from Rp5.54 trillion to Rp3.70 trillion, which several outlets reporting the results in early August 2026 attributed to foreign-exchange losses as the rupiah weakened against the US dollar, plus rising costs for wheat, palm oil, sugar and dairy that the companies had limited room to pass on given weak domestic consumer spending.
Separately, Salim Group affiliate PT Pesona Sukses Cemerlang trimmed its Amman Mineral stake in stages through the year, including the 29-million-share sale noted above and a further reduction reported by Bisnis.com in May 2026. No official reason for the sales appears in the reporting found.
There is also a growth thread running in parallel. Salim-controlled PLDT filed on 22 June 2026 to raise $396 million by spinning off its data-center unit, Vitro Inc., into what would be the Philippines' first data-center REIT IPO, "Vitro REIT" (Forbes, Yessar Rosendar, 22 June 2026; confirmed by BusinessWorld and Manila Bulletin the same week). PLDT chairman Manuel Pangilinan said the listing is expected by the fourth quarter of 2026.
Somewhere in the middle of this series' range. Larry Ellison's Oracle stake is disclosed in SEC filings down to the share, held directly, with no company standing between the public and the number. Salim's INDF and ICBP exposure runs through First Pacific, a public company with its own disclosure obligations, but still an extra hop that a tracker has to price correctly. His AMMN stake runs through wholly private Indonesian holding vehicles with no public filing requirement at all, closer to Sukanto Tanoto's fully private Royal Golden Eagle, the widest cross-tracker gap this series has found. Salim's structure sits between those two poles: part public-holding-company-once-removed, part fully private, which likely explains why Forbes and Bloomberg cannot even agree on his domestic rank.
It is a different shape again from Robert Budi Hartono's wealth, which runs through a single private holding company, Dwimuria Investama Andalan, sitting on top of one fully public bank stock. Salim's fortune is split across two unrelated holding structures for two unrelated businesses.
A holding company between a fortune and its source does not make a number unknowable, it makes it depend on which parts of the structure are public and which are not. Salim's food and telecom wealth is one hop from full disclosure. His mining wealth is not disclosed in a form any tracker can price precisely, which is likely why the two major trackers cannot agree on where he ranks at home, let alone what he is worth.
NetWort's portfolio concentration risk explainer works through the mechanics of a heavily weighted position with a worked example, useful context for any fortune, however it is held, sitting mostly in a small number of assets.