As a member of the first generation of Taiwanese businesspeople to come to Indonesia, Sung saw his own fortunes soar with those of the nation ’ s economy, and was already well established here when the second wave of Taiwanese businesses began arriving in the 1990s. Sung ’ s father, uncle and other relatives came to Taiwan from Fu-jian with his grandfather in 1949.
早在 1990 年代台商掀起南進潮，紛紛設廠印尼前，宋培民就已來到此地，成為伴隨印尼起飛的第一代台商。1949 年，宋培民祖父帶著父親宋良存、叔叔宋良浩和其餘家族成員，從福建渡海來台定居。