About

The first priority for an incoming GC is to become familiar with the business. Since being appointed as vice president legal at Lion Super Indo. in July 2016 Bambang Triwicaksono has used this learning process to ensure his team is familiar with each and every aspect of the company’s operations. ‘I’ve always had the view that as a good lawyer and to provide a good advice, we have to understand the business very well hence I tried to coach my team to have a good understanding of the business so that we could provide a better and practicable support to our company’. Bambang Triwicaksono started his legal career in private practice in 1997 as an associate at Hutabarat, Halim & Rekan (Jakarta) before moving in-house in 1999 to PT Tempo Scan Pacific where he served as director and group general counsel for 17 years. During this time Bambang Triwicaksono was responsible for all legal matters across the group’s various entities and gained important practical insight into how to operate in the Indonesian market. ‘In doing business in Indonesia we have to adapt to such situations whereby some of the regulations might be different from one region to the next’, says Bambang Triwicaksono. This decentralisation can be extremely challenging for lawyers and businesses to navigate, but Bambang Triwicaksono has proved himself particularly adept at the process. Widely recognised as among Indonesia’s finest GCs, Bambang Triwicaksono is praised for his ‘ability to excel at a lot of things at once: from management to hard law to offering commercial advice’.