Hashim Sujono Djojohadikusumo is the youngest son of prominent Indonesian economist Sumitro Djojohadikusumo and Dora Sigar, born June 5th, 1954 in Jakarta.

Hashim studied politics and economics at Pomona College, Claremont University in California. He has not only inherited the business acumen of his father and grandfather, but also their nationalist pride to help advance Indonesia. Throughout his career, Hashim played an active role in preserving and conserving Indonesian arts, culture, ancient history, environment and wildlife.

Direct touch of his grandfather, Margono Djojohadikusurno, the founder of Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) and his loyalty to follow his father everywhere, have formed the figure of Hashim, who had known since childhood the meaning of people's economy. Having spent much. of his formal education abroad, Hashim returned to Indonesia and immediately occupy the position of Director of Indo-Consult, a company owned by his father.

After reaching to the trade sector, Hashim's businesses quickly spread to the plantation sector, manufacturing, and banking industries. However, the financial crisis that hit Indonesia in 1998 helped disrupt the business of Hashim.

Hashim S. Djojohadikusomo is no stranger to the ups and downs of business. Before the 1998 financial crisis, he was regarded as one of the last rising entrepreneurs. Hashim began his comeback with Nations Energy and control a number of businesses from Canada to Jordan and Russia. After selling Nations Energy in Kazakhstan, Hashim returned to Indonesia. Hashim's group of companies, the Arsari Group, named after his 3 children Aryo, Sara and Indra, has completed a major consolidation. Arsari Group's core businesses are in plantation and energy, oil and gas, agribusiness, mining and minerals, logistics and investment.

 He has conducted business in over 40 countries, and counting. Today, Hashim is converting his core business into renewable energy.

For over 20 years, Hashim has been an active philanthropist. With his wife Anie and their children, he founded the Arsari Djojohadikusumo Foundation (formerly the Hashim Djojohadikusumo Family Foundation) with activities focusing on education, teacher's welfare, children's health and nutrition, cultural preservation and environmental conservation.

In education, the foundation has a specific focus on history, Javanese literature, Indonesian literature, anthropology and paleontology.

With regard to the environmental conservation, among other things, Hashim has converted 2,400 hectares of forestry concession in Jambi province into the Sumitro Djojohadikusumo Conservation Forest, an act which earned him the Indonesian Government's Kalpataru Award for forestry preservation in June 2014. Through the Arsari Djojohadikusumo Foundation, Hashim has worked to help conserve orangutans and sun bears in East Kalimantan province, as well as sumatran tigers in West Sumatra province. He also led the supervisory board for Jakarta's Ragunan Zoo, from 2013 to 2015.

As a champion of cultural preservation, Hashim serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Indonesian Heritage Preservation Agency (BPPI) and is on the Board of Trustees of the Indonesian Puppeters Association (PEPADI).

Hashim's interests also extend to competitive chess, in which he was appointed as President of the Indonesian Chess Association (PERCASI) in 2010, and held the position again from 2013 to 2017. Under his leadership, PERCASI began hosting the globally-recognized Indonesia International Open Chess Championships.

In politics, Hashim's entry into the arena was not driven by opportunism but by two solid reasons: Indonesia's economic performance and the state of politics in Indonesia. The Pomona College graduate believes that the Indonesian economy should be much stronger than regional neighbors like Vietnam or India, or even coutries in Africa, like Nigeria, yet its potential has not been realized. He also sees Pancasila, Indonesia's state ideology, become increasingly irrelevant and disregarded by the political elite, both in their political activities and in their overall statesmanship. In 2008, he played a pivotal role in establishing Gerinda (the Great Indonesia Movement party) alongside his brother, Prabowo Subianto.