Based on the principle of helping yourself by helping others, Taiwan should be extending a hand to Indonesia. When the chaos in Indonesia boiled over on May 14, Indonesia's economics minister, Ginandjar Kartasasmita, and two other economics and finance officials came to Taiwan to ask for concrete economic aid.
就在印尼動亂正熾的五月十四日，印尼財經工業統籌部長金南嘉等三位財經首長來台尋求具體經濟援助，並提出「原油換白米」計畫，以紓解印尼暴亂造成的缺糧問題。