Lippo unit’s stake lures private equity to Indonesia: sources

JAKARTA/HONG KONG, July 9:  The chance to buy as much as 49 per cent of Indonesia’s largest private healthcare  operator, Siloam Hospitals, is attracting a slew of global private  equity
firms to the sale, as they bet on a rapid rise in healthcare spending in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, sources said. Property firm PT Lippo Karawaci, controlled by the billionaire Riady family, plans to sell a minimum 20 percent  of unit Siloam for between 200 million dollar and 300 million dollar, and has hired Bank of America Merrill Lynch to run the auction, sources with direct knowledge of the matter told. First round bids are due on July 16, two of the sources said.
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