According to David Auw, secretary to the director at Chengchih University's Institute of International Relations and a researcher on Southeast Asian issues, who himself is Indonesian-Chinese, these are relatively undeveloped farming and mining areas where the Chinese community is not well off, and where many young women hope to go to Taiwan.
本身是印尼華僑、研究東南亞問題的政大國際關係研究中心研究員兼主任秘書區鉅龍指出，這些地區屬於低度開發的農礦區，當地華人的經濟條件較為落後，的確有許多女孩對台灣心嚮往之。