These questions address the issue of what a culture considers the proper activity of Mankind.
Anthropologists make a distinction between people who are doing, and people who are being.
Most expatriates from Western cultures living in Indonesia are doers. This means they hold the belief that, If people work hard, they will be rewarded looking to tomorrow for the rewards worked for today. No rest for the weary, and Keep your nose to the grindstone refer to the ethic of hard work found in many western cultures. In a western culture, an idle employee might hear his manager tell him, If you can t find something to do yourself, I will find something for you. With the implied threat that what your manager finds for you to do will not be as pleasant as what you could find yourself.