Thirty-nine years ago, the 26th of December 1962 marked the momentous birth of a tobacco company with the coming together of two strong individuals who formed PT Gelora Djaja In Indonesia. Lie Koen Lie and Oei Bian Hok brought with them only a shared experience of decades in the tobacco industry, but also a shared conviction to produce a more superior product.
Within five short years the company managed to build and enjoy a wonderful reputation, and had succeeded in being ranked among the leading clove cigarette manufacturers in the country. The company's clove cigarettes are the only ones ever to win international awards for quality and taste and are the number one ranked cloves cigarette in Europe, where they sell for ten times the price of the competition.
Today, with the second generation at the helm, the company has diversified its activities, supplying high-quality raw materials for the production of tobacco products around the world, as well as applying their experience, expertise and passion for growing the finest tobaccos to bring to market premium cigars of the highest quality, in the family tradition... Wismilak Premium Cigars.
