The Mentality of Indonesians

Letters from a reader on entrepreneurship.

Tempo

May 30, 2022

DO you know why citizens of Chinese descent in Indonesia are far more successful in doing business than those of the other ethnic groups? We have often heard that in undertaking business they are persistent, persevering, committed, thrifty and unwilling to give up. This may partly be true. But perhaps the other factor is that they have very few competitors.

Indonesians, in general, aspire to be employees, whereas Chinese descendants wish to

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