However, since the anti-Chinese riots in 1999, there has been a sharp decline in the number of projects going to Indonesia, while the number of Taiwan businesspeople living there has fallen from a peak of at least 15,000 to the current level of about 6000.
然而，從一九九九年印尼暴動事件後，赴印尼投資的件數已大幅衰退，旅居印尼的台商也由高峰期的一萬五千人至二萬人，遽降到今天的六千人左右。