At last month’s showcase Belt and Road summit in Beijing, Indonesian president Joko Widodo sidled up to Xi Jinping, his Chinese counterpart, and urged him to send more Chinese companies his way.Envious of the billions of dollars of investment promised to neighbours Malaysia and the Philippines, Mr Widodo hopes Chinese money can help deliver his ambitious economic growth plans before he faces re-election in 2019. But Chinese companies are worried about the difficulties of doing business in the decentralised democracy. Problems range from acquiring land and navigating confusing policies to dealing with rising anti-Chinese sentiment.Speaking at a Chinese investment forum in Manado on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, Zhao Baige, a senior Chinese diplomat, called on Jakarta to give Chinese companies more support, for example by offering tax incentives.“We need to understand the policy and law relating to labour, tax and especially land,” she said. “Chinese companies really want details. If there’s no land, there’s no business.”Indonesia is a target for Mr Xi’s signature Belt and Road investment initiative, which he unveiled in a speech to the Indonesian parliament in 2013, when the strategy was branded the Maritime Silk Road.Mr Widodo told Mr Xi at last month’s summit that North Sulawesi, a mere four-hour flight from southern China, was one of three provinces where Chinese investment should be focused, according to Tom Lembong, head of Indonesia’s investment co-ordinating board.But despite strong financial and political backing from Beijing, Chinese investors are worried about their ability to deliver.“There are many permit and land-
上月，中國在北京舉辦了彰顯國力的「一帶一路」峯會。在這次峯會上，印尼總統佐科•維多多(Joko Widodo)不動聲色地走到中國國家主席習近平身旁，懇請他把更多中國企業派往印尼。