To this day the economic pulse of many Southeast Asian nations is controlled by the overseas Chinese community; for example, the world's richest ethnic Chinese, Lin Shao-liang, is the wealthiest man in Indonesia.
至今東南亞許多國家的經濟命脈操在華人手裡，例如曾被「財富雜誌」選為世界最富有的華人林紹良，就是印尼首富。