As an Indo I love it when my fellow SEA is seething over Indonesia. This crab mentality feels great when you're on the winning side.
Those guys (particularly Filipino and Malays) needs to understand that Indonesia has always been on a different level than them. It's just that nation building on a scale of Indonesia is very difficult, maybe among the hardest in the world. So that's why Indonesia has always been an underachiever, but that doesn't mean that Indonesia will always be a bottom feeder.
Indonesia is just a sleeping giant just like India until recently, China before the 2000s, or USA before the Civil War.
So it always futile to think that Indonesia will always be on the same level or even on the lower level than the other SEA countries. That's like Korean seething over China, Pakistani seething over India, Canadian seething over America, or Austrian seething over Germany.
Just accept that the level is vastly different, there's no way to compete, Indonesia is on the same level as the big countries mentioned above and it is currently the bottom feeder among them. People from those countries deserve to mock Indonesia. Though it may or may not change soon.
The other SEA citizens should just compare and compete with those on the same level as them, like Philippines vs Vietnam, Malaysia vs Thailand/Singapore. You'd just stress yourself if you try to compare your country with Indonesia, because a slight change in Indonesia could shake the whole region. The economy of Java island alone is bigger than any single SEA countries, and Java island only account for half of the country's economy, that's how different the level is.
