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

Our socialism does not include extreme materialistic concepts, since Indonesia is primarily a God-fearing, God-loving nation. Our socialism is a mixture. We draw political equality from the American Declaration of Independence. We draw spiritual equality from Islam and Christianity. We draw scientific equality from Marx.

After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.

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.

Crush Malaysia! Indonesia may change its tactics, but our goal will remain the same.

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

In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.

I came across the Indonesian genocide in 2001, when I found myself making a film in a community of survivors. They were plantation workers, and it turned out they were struggling to organize a union.