Last year Djojohadikusumo's Batu Perkasa Hitam won a contract to build and operate, with Japan's Mitsui and America's General Electric, two 600-megawatt power plants in Paiton in eastern Java.
He certainly remembers his past treatment by the Western press, expounding at length to FORBES ASIA on the omissions in a decade-old story on Paiton by an American newspaper reporter whose name he still remembers.