In the 17th century the abundant spices found on the Indonesian archipelago brought the Portuguese and Dutch, who battled each other for supremacy. Some four centuries later multinational corporations based in Taiwan, Japan, Korea and the United States are now vying with each other for market share on these same -islands.
17 世紀，印尼島上豐饒的香料，曾吸引葡萄牙、荷蘭人來此逐鹿爭奪；經過四、五個世紀更迭，取而代之的是來自台灣、日本、韓國、美國的國際企業，競相爭逐市場大餅。