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Is Indonesia's Economic Nationalism Hurting the Country?

Is Indonesia's Economic Nationalism Hurting the Country?

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Jun 09, 2012
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Although there is growing investor concern over rising economic nationalism in Indonesia, I can certainly understand the impulse. Given the long history of colonialism in Indonesia and most of Southeast Asia, it is not unusual to feel that the sovereign nation is “ours” and that somehow “foreigners” are exploiting an unfair advantage.

Indeed during the i…

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