I could not find anything about how or why this name change occurred.
Oei Ek Tjong (1921?-?)
He was born to a trader from Sulawesi and he was originally from Quanzhou, China. He would join his father in setting up shop in Makassar. Widjaja would leave school to work as a hawker and sold cookie and candy from his bicycle. Prior to the Japanese invasion of Indonesia, he would go on to work several odd jobs.
Eka Tjipta Widjaja (?-2019)
Widjaja: (Indonesian) victory; derived from the Sanskrit word vijaya
Widjaja would become one of the wealthiest men in Indonesia.
Sources
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