インドネシアは私がいたハードディスク業界や半導体業界に関わる企業が極めて少ない国でした。
私が行ったことがあるのは、バタム島のみ。シンガポールから船で1時間ほどのところであったと記憶しています。
そこには松下寿㈱の工場があり、ハードディスクの部品を製造していました。
入国審査に長蛇の列ができていましたが、我々の一団は別の入り口から入って並ばずに審査。毎回、袖の下でも渡していたのでしょうか。
最近読んだ『FACT FULNESS』（ハンス・ロスリング他著、日経BP社）によると、マレーシアは日本と同じレベル４、インドネシアはレベル３の国と位置づけられています。
さて、Ron-sanが訪問した当時（1985年）のIndonesiaはどのような国だったのでしょうか。
Indonesia
After those four seminars in West Malaysia, I was asked to go down to Indonesia to study if we could help them develop their dealership network. It turned out that the country had very strict local content laws and imported assembled vehicles were very heavily taxed. Like Malaysia, a manufacturer had to not only have local assembly, but required a great deal of local parts in the vehicle, some parts of which were in low supply and of low quality. So, the problem was not the dealership network, it was supply.
With little business to do, I decided to do market research while I was there. I studied the bus market on the beautiful island of Bali.
Bali, Indonesia, July 1985
Most of the Eastern religions came out of India historically. The first religion was Hindu, which swept down the Malaysian Peninsula and throughout Indonesia. Then, centuries later came the Buddhist religion and finally the Muslim religion. Today, Indonesia is 80% Muslim, except Bali. They still hold the old Hindu religion, which entered the countries 100’s of years earlier. They are very special people for that region of the world. They work hard, are very disciplined and religious. It’s one of the special places on earth.
Indonesia is extremely different from Malaysia. Although the Malay language and Indonesian language are similar, and they can understand each other, they don’t like each other very much. The Malaysians are far more educated and rich. Indonesian has a very huge population (8-10 times the sizes of Malaysia). Few people speak English in Indonesia, as they were a territory of the Dutch, and about 15% of the population is Chinese. They do have crude oil though which is the number one foreign exchange earner. It has the largest Muslim population in the world making it very important globally.
私が行ったことがあるのは、バタム島のみ。シンガポールから船で1時間ほどのところであったと記憶しています。
そこには松下寿㈱の工場があり、ハードディスクの部品を製造していました。
入国審査に長蛇の列ができていましたが、我々の一団は別の入り口から入って並ばずに審査。毎回、袖の下でも渡していたのでしょうか。
最近読んだ『FACT FULNESS』（ハンス・ロスリング他著、日経BP社）によると、マレーシアは日本と同じレベル４、インドネシアはレベル３の国と位置づけられています。
さて、Ron-sanが訪問した当時（1985年）のIndonesiaはどのような国だったのでしょうか。
Indonesia
After those four seminars in West Malaysia, I was asked to go down to Indonesia to study if we could help them develop their dealership network. It turned out that the country had very strict local content laws and imported assembled vehicles were very heavily taxed. Like Malaysia, a manufacturer had to not only have local assembly, but required a great deal of local parts in the vehicle, some parts of which were in low supply and of low quality. So, the problem was not the dealership network, it was supply.
With little business to do, I decided to do market research while I was there. I studied the bus market on the beautiful island of Bali.
Bali, Indonesia, July 1985
Most of the Eastern religions came out of India historically. The first religion was Hindu, which swept down the Malaysian Peninsula and throughout Indonesia. Then, centuries later came the Buddhist religion and finally the Muslim religion. Today, Indonesia is 80% Muslim, except Bali. They still hold the old Hindu religion, which entered the countries 100’s of years earlier. They are very special people for that region of the world. They work hard, are very disciplined and religious. It’s one of the special places on earth.
Indonesia is extremely different from Malaysia. Although the Malay language and Indonesian language are similar, and they can understand each other, they don’t like each other very much. The Malaysians are far more educated and rich. Indonesian has a very huge population (8-10 times the sizes of Malaysia). Few people speak English in Indonesia, as they were a territory of the Dutch, and about 15% of the population is Chinese. They do have crude oil though which is the number one foreign exchange earner. It has the largest Muslim population in the world making it very important globally.
