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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.

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.

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

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.

There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

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

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

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

But, on balance, we seized the marketplace. We've got a great infrastructure. And yes it's struggling in some areas because of some external factors and some internal factors.

We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.