5. Location: Indonesia is located
in South-eastern Asia, lying
between the Indian Ocean and
the Pacific Ocean. It’s near
Malaysia.
Population: 267 million in 2019
Language(s): Bahasa Indonesia
is the official language. In
addition, English and Javanese
are also spoken at home and
local community
6. Religion: Primarily of 88% is Muslim and
other’s percent is lower such as Roman Catholic,
Hindu, etc.
Customs and Traditions:
Traditional outfits like a long-sleeve batik shirt for
men can be expected to be worn on business or
important day like wedding days and the women
wear traditional dress like kebaya. In addition,
Indonesia's national dish is fried rice and garnished
with acar
8. Business Culture
• Business meetings &
relationships:
• Arriving on time for a meeting is
important. When you start an
important meeting, you must
create small talk with other
people to avoid time of silence
and build a strong relationship.
If you don’t want to talk with
others or make small
conversation, it will be ok when
you show everyone that you
respect them
• Business
communication:
• Don’t say anything bad to anyone
in front of them because it will
create conflict between you and
others. There will be serious
problem and best solution is talk
with them to arrange. In this
country, communication by face-
to-face meetings get more
attention than using phone to call.
9. Business Culture
Entertaining for
business:
• For the social event, the people
usually arrive 30 minutes later
before the event starts and
almost all of the event begins
later, not on time. For the
cuisine, the people don’t eat
pork and alcohol, method of
eating by fingers but must to
by the right hand. In the
dinner table, avoid
communicating about
business.
Decision making in business
& Business negotiation:
• On business negotiation,
Indonesians value relationship
building so we need to avoid
hard selling, pressure tactics
and any conflict
• On making decision in business,
don’t say no when they ask you
a question instead you can
answer it like maybe or yes
when the answer is really no.
10. • In summary, there are some
details about Indonesian Culture
and Indonesian Business Culture.
In future, I hope I can go there to
be able to feel that detail I
research will be true.
