John W. Limbong

John W. Limbong is an Indonesian educator and businessman who is the founder and president of the University of International Golden Indonesia. He received a M.S. in Economics in 1982 from Brigham Young University (BYU) and subsequently earned a Ph.D. from the University of Utah in 1982. Limbong says that while a student at BYU, one night he had a dream where Brigham Young visited him and asked him to establish a university in Limbong's native Jakarta, Indonesia. Limbong vacillated, as he worked for Bank Indonesia for a while, but he later quit that job to pursue this dream.

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Birth dateJanuary 01, 1957
Religion
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Education
University of Utah
Brigham Young University

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