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Indonesia is a very huge country, geographically and in number of people, and there is still a lot of growth in the income level; It is very easy to assume there is a lot of demand for travel.

Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million.

I've lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that there's so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.

I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.

The richest Indonesians have maybe $5 billion. Bill Gates has $50 billion.

Indonesia was colonized for 350 years. We lost our mind-set for entrepreneurship. We only become workers.

Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.

We are not facing great economic difficulties. The Indonesian people are faring reasonably well - just compare us to India or some other countries.

Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it or not.