Thee Kian Wie, PhD, is senior economist at the Economic Research Centre, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (P2E-LIPI), Jakarta. His major research interests are Indonesia's modern economic history and industrialization, foreign direct investment and technological development in the East Asian countries, particularly Indonesia. He is co-author of the book "The Emergence of a National Economy -- An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800-2000" together with Howard Dick, Vincent Houben, and J. Thomas Lindblad (Sydney, 2002).