Eh I think you got it the other way around. Bekasi has a rather bad name and is joked about often. Outside of Jakarta it is -besides some areas as Summarecon- considered relatively cheap. And districts as Kelapa Gading are very expensive. Prices are easily 20 juta per m2, only at the port it’s still rather cheap.
About marriage abroad and then registering it in RI;
Centurion is correct that it might have been rather complicated to do that especially if one of the partners is Muslim. The civil registry often refuses to register people who don’t have the same religion. For Muslims they think a KUA registration is a must. And unlike in the past, the judges were instructed to agree to that. Now if you and your spouse won’t live in Indonesia you could ask yourselves if it’s really absolutely necessary to register the marriage there.
Already for quite some years in Singapore it’s not so easy to marry anymore if you don’t live there. You need to stay a longer period in the country to be able to wed. There are alternatives of course.
Ah yes, I got it mixed up. I meant Menteng, not Bekasi. And in terms of North Jakarta, aren't neighborhoods like Cilincing and Penjaringan fairly low on economic factors?
This sentence makes me think that everything will be fine. To even have entertained this option she must have already escaped the childhood indoctrination that she had. Also, the fact that the parents have some money and the eldest siblings also seem to have good jobs is very positive.
Hope it goes well for you, and please let us know how it turns out.
My fiancee is the highest earner of the siblings though, she just had the best grades and made it into great SMA and uni. The rest of the family is just not poor, not rich / middle class-ish.
Yes, I will continue to tell the story here. Basically the plan is
1. Fake it to her parents; if anything goes wrong:
-> 2. Civil marriage in Germany, then get it recognized in Indonesia (which from my research is still possible) and deal with her family fallout. If anything goes wrong:
-> 3. Convert her to Protestant, get married like that (the least favorite solution for us and her family will be massively pissed).
We don't want to skip marriage in Indonesia so that I can get the spousal KITAS and get rid of the remote worker visa. She already said she wants to marry, with or without her parents depends on her families behavior, though she wants to keep relations with them if possible (understandable), so that's why we will go the faking it route first and hope everything goes well with that.
