>>94925860The secret is that "Indonesia" doesn't recieve overseas expansion, Singapore does. Singapore is a global business and trade hub with laws that are very friendly to foreign businesses, and also happens to be the center of basically all business translation between asian languages and english (as well as various other europ languages). You expand to Singapore because it serves as a distribution hub to other asian markets near-term, and because long term it provides the connections and business infrastructure necessary to do business in the west. An ID branch is a stepping stone to a North America, Europe, or Global branch.
Wider Indonesia doesn't really get windfall from this, and basically just serves as the manpower pool that Singapore draws from.
Singapore is geographically part of the indonesian island chain, but is not formally a part of the political entity Indonesia.
