Rocked by scandal: Indonesia’s Riadys show their survival skills

Henry Riady strides across a construction site in the outskirts of Jakarta, trailed by executives scurrying to keep up. He passes between half-finished tower blocks, snaps at a construction worker to put out his cigarette and shakes hands with shopkeepers. The scion of one of Indonesia’s richest families inspects a 42sqm flat for sale at $28,000 to one of the country’s rapidly expanding urban middle class.