Indonesia, is blanketed in pollution, accosted with poverty, beleaguered by corruption, consistently flooded, attacked by natural disasters of earthquakes and tsunamis and attacked by terrorist bombs yet still remains overly populated and growing. Its capital city of Jakarta @ 13M is a surging developing dusty city and despite any of these 50% daily probable disasters, domestic demand continues to drive the economy is a positive direction.
the "home sweet home" psyche is quite an interesting topic to delve into, especially when discussing market demographic for business opportunities in indonesia. If you had your home flooded in 2m of water 2x a year wouldn't you move? If the building 2 streets down was bombed even once in ur lifetime, wouldn't you move? they don't. Call it resilient or call it immune. It's their home. And as the 4th most populated country's middle class grows, even those sent away to study abroad in (america, europe, australia), are eager to come back to this city of chaos hoping to capitalize on it's freakish development
