Past profits accumulated by the Bakrie group from coal mining are now being reinvested into green projects and other efforts towards energy transition.

[6] Bakrie was appointed by former Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as a Director of the APEC Business Advisory Council.

[10] Motivated by his interest in finance and technology, as well as his desire to follow in his father and grandfather's footsteps in business, Bakrie initially intended to major in economics in college.

[12] Bakrie began his career as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, in the United States in 1996.

After receiving his M.B.A from Stanford, he then served as Deputy to Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of Bakrie & Brothers.

In Visi Media Asia, or the Viva group, Bakrie serves as the chairman and Erick Thohir is the president director.

[8] In 2014, the Bakrie Global Group invested in Series C in Path, a personal social network with active users in Indonesia reaching 4 million people.

[19] Bakrie Group’s VKTR, which builds electric buses and trucks, listed its initial shares on Indonesia Stock Exchange on 19 June 2023.

The Jakarta-based auto assembler is supported by China’s BYD Automobile, a producer of the lithium iron phosphate battery.

[25] In September 2022, along with Erick Thohir, Bakrie bought a 51% share in English football club Oxford United, then in EFL League One.