So Google, RIM, Facebook and just recently Paypal decided to open their office in Malaysia instead of Indonesia. This causes controversy amongst industrialists and economists that believe those companies should’ve set up their offices in Indonesia instead of Malaysia. Market-base is one of the biggest reason, companies like Facebook and RIM (Blackberry) have a huge user base in Indonesia but instead they’re investing in Malaysia.

We keep trying to figure out why but just recently I was guided to a Wikipedia page of something called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Could this be the reason?

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