Indonesia

Objective and components: Players operate production and shipping companies. Production companies supply goods; shipping companies move them to cities and receive transport fees. Players build cash through sales, mergers, and city growth. The game supports 2–5 players and has A, B, and C eras, each year following seven phases. When the C era ends, the player with the most money, including cash in the Bank area, wins. (Accessible older rulebook, printed pp. 4, 9)

Setup: Each player receives a player board, markers, and 100 rupiah, then places markers on the starting spaces of the research tracks. Shuffle each era’s company contracts, determine player order randomly, and lay out the A-era contracts. Every year follows this sequence: New Era, Bid for Turn Order, Mergers, Acquisitions, Research & Development, Operations, and City Growth. Contracts provide the basis for starting production and shipping companies. (Printed p. 4)

Era changes and city placement: A new era begins when one of the rulebook conditions is met: no company from the previous era remains available, or all remaining available companies are of one type. In order, turn over city cards and place a level-one city in the listed province. A city must be placed on empty coastal land, not in a province already containing goods or a city. If a listed placement is illegal, discard that city card. After the new cities are placed, remove unacquired contracts from the prior era and lay out the new contracts. (Printed p. 4)

Bid for turn order: In the previous year’s order, each player bids once; a bid of zero is allowed. Put the money in the player’s Bank area. It cannot be spent later, but it still counts toward final money. The highest bidder acts earliest in the current year; ties preserve the tied players’ prior relative order. If a player has researched Turn Order Bid, multiply the bid by that research level. The bid therefore buys timing while locking away some working cash. (Printed p. 5)

Company mergers: Only a player with at least one level of Mergers research may announce a merger. Normally, two companies of the same type merge; production and shipping companies cannot merge with each other. The announcer’s Mergers level limits the size of the company they may announce. Each merger combines two existing companies, and eligible company owners and players with room for a company may bid. The highest bidder pays the full price and controls the merged company; the purchase price is divided among former owners according to their share of the goods or ships. Each contract may participate in at most one merger per year. (Printed pp. 5–6)

Merger limits and the special conversion: Each player may announce at most one merger per year, and a player who passes during one auction cannot re-enter that same auction. In era B or C, a rice company and a spice company may merge into a siap saji company; the rules require giving up about half the former land and converting its goods. A siap saji company may later merge only with another siap saji company. The third edition uses the spelling siap saji; the older rulebook spells it siap faji. (Printed pp. 5–6; current term from Splotter’s product page)

Acquire a company: After mergers, players take available company contracts from the current era in turn order. Each player may acquire one company per round; if they still have an empty company slot and have not passed, they may acquire another in a later round. Acquiring a company costs no money. A production company places one good in the contract’s province; a shipping company places a ship in the named sea area. Goods cannot be placed illegally next to the same type. If no legal opening is possible, remove that company from the game. A merged company takes one company slot regardless of how many contracts it contains. (Printed pp. 6–7)

Research: Each year a player may advance one research track by one step. The named tracks in the accessible rulebook are Slots, Mergers, Hull, Expansion, and Turn Order Bid. They affect company slots, announced merger size, shipping capacity, expansion limits, and bid multipliers. The old rulebook introduction says there are six research types but the section lists only five; this entry does not invent the unnamed sixth. The rules also allow a player to research another player’s Hull track, but not that opponent’s other tracks. (Printed p. 7)

Operations and shipping companies: Operations run in several rounds; in each round, players in order operate one company that has not yet operated that year. A shipping company may expand its route by placing ships in sea areas containing or adjacent to its existing ships; the number allowed depends on the era contract and Hull research. During a production company’s operation, goods must travel along a continuous route belonging to one shipping company; they cannot switch shipping companies midway or travel over land. Hull research sets a ship’s capacity for each production company operation. (Printed pp. 7–8)

Production, sales, and income: A production company sells goods to cities before collecting revenue and expanding. Cities receive each type currently being produced according to their level. For every ship a good travels through, the production company pays that shipping company 5 rupiah and earns the fixed price for that good type. A production company must sell as many goods as possible, even if transport costs make the operation unprofitable. If all goods are sold, the company must expand for free; if goods remain, it may purchase expansion up to its Expansion research limit, paying the good’s value for each land space. (Printed pp. 7–8)

City growth and final scoring: At the end of the year, check the goods delivered to each city. A level-one city that received one of every currently produced good may grow to level two; a level-two city needs two of each to grow to level three. Delivered goods are then discarded, and cities do not store them permanently. Era C ends when the new-era condition is met. Cash earned in the last Operations phase is doubled; add it to cash in the Bank area. The wealthiest player wins, with turn order breaking a tie. (Printed pp. 8–9)