Burhan Uray

Dato' Sri Burhan Uray (13 November 1931 – 2 October 2018), also known as Huang Shuang'an in Mandarin Chinese and Bong Swan An or Bong Sun On in Eastern Min, was a Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneur and philanthropist, known as the "Timber King" of Indonesia. Born into a poor family in Fujian, China, he moved to Sarawak in childhood and then to Indonesia, where he founded the Djajanti Group and turned it into the second largest timber company in the country. He later diversified into other businesses including fishery.

Biography Uray was born Huang Shuang'an on 13 November 1931, into a poor family in Minqing County, Fujian, China. He moved to Sibu, Sarawak (now in Malaysia) with his parents at the age of six. Having received little education, he worked as a logger in his youth.

Uray moved to Indonesia in 1956, where he worked as a rubber tapper which was published in English in 2016 under the title Love in the Forest with Burhan Uray.

Illnesses and death According to the biography written by his wife, Uray was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1992 and had two operations in Singapore. In 2003, he received an operation in the United States for liver cancer. In 2007, he had a stroke while travelling in Japan.