Apakah di Vietnam semudah ini bikin bisnis dibandingkan Indonesia?

 Apakah di Vietnam semudah ini bikin bisnis dibandingkan Indonesia?
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martyn-terpilowski-66aba850_bvy-wonderfulindonesia-creatingalegacy-activity-7283326808261832704-0ioB/

I love Indonesia and have spent 6 years of my life building a business here....but it's been much harder than it should have been and for all the talk of local content, it has not given me any real benefit being one of the very few software companies to have it..

I want to be the first Indonesian tech company to go global and we have achieved some great things so far, but building real B to B and B to G software that can be exported overseas gets far less fanfare than all the low tech app based companies burning tens of millions of dollars...Here you to have to beg politicians to visit you, rather than them taking any interest in what has become a real indo tech company...There is always that feeling here that they believe you are lucky to be allowed to invest here.

I recently set up my Vietnam business in 4 weeks and they have made it very clear they are open for business. I have just hired 4 staff in Vietnam including 3 developers...Things are moving fast and that is due to the ease of doing business there and the willingness of authorities, banks and large institutions to enable this... We are already signing agreement with state owned enterprises like Viettel. It is a breath of fresh air.

Apple have invested $16b in Vietnam....Indonesia with nearly 3 times the population is struggling to get $1b investment despite trying to block the imports of phones...Apple here are trying to invest in education rather than factories for their local content (which as explained above, isnt helping me anyway).

These are staggering differences and cannot just be ignored on the grounds of patrotism. There must be reasons for this and Apple are not the only ones.

Companies like Apple and Tesla opening factories in Indonesia would create jobs and upskill a workforce desperately in need of it....This would lead to new tech leaders who could later develop Indonesia's own technology which is sadly lacking now...A country this size needs it's own tech products and tech sovereignty.

For all the talk of EVs in Indonesia, they still don't have their own....VinFast from Vietnam is growing hugely and will soon open in Indonesia.

This is the tale of 2 countries ...One is grasping the huge opportunities in tech in SEA...the other has created unicorn zombies and still have little tech IP. One is making EVs, one is holding constant events talking about EVs... One roles out the red carpet even for small players like us, the other can't quite decide how to take us as a foreigner running it...

I really hope in the future Indonesia can have the same dynamic investment and tech climate, rather than be slowed down by red tape, vested interests and lack of meritocracy.