Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous nation, largest archipelago and ninth largest economy (by GDP PPP), growing steadily for most of the past 50 years, driven by domestic consumption (e.g. it is Facebook’s and Twitter’s fourth largest user base). Indonesia has good prospects but also many challenges as it seeks to increase investment in infrastructure and manufacturing, to capitalize on its maritime assets and to raise employment, productivity, incomes and social welfare for its 250 million people.

Linda Y.C. Lim is at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where she served from 2005-09 as Director of the 55-year-old Center for Southeast Asian Studies. Her research is on business, government and labor in the economic development of Southeast Asia. A native of Singapore, she has been making professional and personal visits to various parts of Indonesia for over 40 years.

This is the second of six lectures in the series, "Indonesia; Culturally Diverse, Geographically Fragmented, Strategically Located."