1970
Tjandra Kusuma and his three sons found the Mulia Group in construction and building materials Mulia Hotels & Resorts
1986
Mulia Industrindo is established for glass and ceramics; the group moves into property Mulia Hotels & Resorts
1987
Tugu opens its first hotel in Indonesia, built around Anhar Setjadibrata's collection Tugu Hotels
1988
Claude and Petra Graves open NIHI Sumba as a surf camp at Nihiwatu
1994
The Legian opens at Seminyak, an early Jaya Ibrahim interior
1996
The Ritz-Carlton Bali opens at Jimbaran, Asia's first Ritz-Carlton, with Horst Schulze on the opening team Ayana
1996
The Legian opens at Seminyak, Bali
1997
Hotel Mulia Senayan opens in Jakarta in September
1997
The Dharmawangsa opens in Jakarta on 1 December, inaugurated by President Suharto for the OPEC summit — a Rosewood hotel of 99 rooms, designed in part by Jaya Ibrahim
1997
Christina Ong founds COMO Shambhala in Singapore COMO Shambhala
2001
The Sumba Foundation is founded beside Nihiwatu Sumba Foundation
2001
Alila opens its first resort in Bali Alila
2003
COMO Shambhala Estate opens outside Ubud
2005
The Dharmawangsa leaves Rosewood after eight years and becomes independent
2005
Andrew and Marit Miners begin the work at Misool that becomes its foundation Misool Foundation
2008
A Maryland jury finds Ritz-Carlton breached its duty to the owner of its Bali hotel by helping a competitor on the same island, and awards $10m in punitive damages Ayana
2008
The court rules on 28 April that PT Karang Mas Sejahtera may terminate the Ritz-Carlton agreement Ayana
2009
The hotel drops the Ritz-Carlton name on 1 April and reopens as AYANA under Horst Schulze's West Paces Hotel Group Ayana
2009
AYANA is named Asia's Leading Luxury Resort at the World Travel Awards, months after the rebrand Ayana
2009
Co-founder Djoko Tjandra is convicted of corruption over the embezzlement of banking funds and flees the country the day before sentencing Mulia Hotels & Resorts
2012
The Mulia opens at Nusa Dua — 737 suites and 108 villas on Geger Beach
2013
Chris Burch and James McBride take NIHI Sumba and rebuild it
2014
Condé Nast Traveler names The Mulia Bali the world's best beach resort
2016
Cempedak opens off Bintan, built in bamboo
2018
The Anambas Foundation is created Anambas Foundation
2019
Potato Head Studios opens at Seminyak, built to a zero-waste brief
2019
Bawah Reserve opens in the Anambas after a build that moved no earth by machine
2020
Djoko Tjandra is arrested in Malaysia in July after eleven years as a fugitive and jailed in Indonesia for bribing a police officer and a prosecutor Mulia Hotels & Resorts