Adriel Simorangkir traded a career in oil, gas, and renewable energy for something no engineering degree prepared him for: running Bimasena, one of Jakarta's most prestigious private members clubs, where world-altering conversations have happened quietly behind closed doors for almost 30 years."Exclusive and closed off is not our brand language anymore," he says, and that's exactly what we dug into. We talked about what it's like to run this institution and modernize it without breaking it, why he thinks money was never the point of exclusivity, and why hospitality turned out to be a tougher industry than any corporate ladder he'd been climbing.---------------

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