Man: The only thing left is foreign fish (ikan – fish, asin – salty, asin(g) – foreign)

Thanks to liberal government regulations, as of March 2011 foreign interests controlled 50.6% of national banking assets, more than half of the life insurance companies operating in Indonesia, 60-70% of the capital market, 60% of all the state-owned enterprises (SOE) that have been privatised and 75% of the oil and gas sector.