Women Founders in Indonesia: Nurhayati Subakat, Who Rebuilt After the Fire

Nurhayati Subakat built Indonesia’s largest cosmetics company from a home business begun in 1985. Women own 64.5 percent of the country’s MSMEs, and this series opener sets out what turns a woman-led business from an informal trade into one a bank or an investor can fund, and the founders, Indonesian and foreign, who did it.