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    Worlds worst airport for delays

    Its a question of balance. What I observe, both here, and in other forums based in Asia / Asean is a load of over-entitled expats posting comments similar to the OP's recent posting. Viz, the legal system here is crap, the public infrastructure is crap, the government and all other public...
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    Worlds worst airport for delays

    Great, lets join a forum and keep up a stream of on invective about the country we choose to live in :panda:
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    JP: Most wage violations against domestic workers 'done by expats'

    :sad: And so it goes.
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    What would you save?

    I used to live in a very nice condo near the beach in Thailand and half-way through the tenancy, the owner installed a fire-safe in each of his units. I thought what a great idea. I'm now building a modest-sized house in the kampong, about 1 hr outside Solo. When its finished, the first thing I...
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    JP: Most wage violations against domestic workers 'done by expats'

    Sorry, I don't buy that. There needs to be some assessment of items, reports, quotes etc that are included in any newspaper, anywhere, to gauge bias and put the item in some sort of perspective. I have seen JP, JGlobe, Kompas etc do this type of thing but recently an objective assessment seems...
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    JP: Most wage violations against domestic workers 'done by expats'

    I find this article in the JP today very hard to believe: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/09/17/most-wage-violations-against-domestic-workers-done-by-expats.html And this quote in particular, I've heard time and time again, it appears to recur like an urban myth: 'When [the...
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    Surprise: Indonesia only 5th worst country for drivers!

    If I had to rate countries, and excluding Jakarta from the Indonesian ranking as its a particularly (bad) special case. My top 5 worst would be: [1] Saudi Arabia (easily the worst place I've driven). [2] India (again a shocking place to be a driver or passenger IMO). [3] Indonesia / Thailand...
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    Lombok and The Gilis

    Sad, there was a very similar incident last year when several passengers were seriously hurt. I tried these boats once, never again.
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    Lombok and The Gilis

    That sound like bar-room gossip to me, e.g. the latest news is: Meliá Hotels International to increase presence in Indonesia with its first hotel in Lombok, Meliá Lombok Tangkong. I doubt that Novotel, Sheraton, HI, Swiss-Inn and other Western-based hotel chains are particularly Sharia...
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    Lombok and The Gilis

    I doubt if many people in S Lombok have forgotten the cancellation of these projects. My understanding is that these events were as a direct result of the 2007/8 financial crisis (developments in the S were not the only projects that were affected). Work on the Mandalaika resort was...
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    Lombok and The Gilis

    It's being marketed as a part of the Halal tourism push - I guess that's what the above mentioned movie is partly about. I hope it goes well, you already see quite a few Malaysian tourists in Lombok due to the direct AA flights from KL and Emirates are considering adding a number of direct...
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    Surprise: Indonesia only 5th worst country for drivers!

    Hmmmmm methinks there is something amiss with this survey. I'd like to see their sampling methods and size. France has 4 out of the top 5 best (in the whole world) :violin:
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    Lombok and The Gilis

    There is plenty of choice these days - even in Sengigi and up the coast road to the N. One can pay 250K and have a nice clean Air-con room with TV and a breakfast thrown. Same in Kuta on the S Coast and a bit more in Mataram. The nicer places, up say 1.5 / 2 Jt must be great, but I usu. stay for...
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    Autopsies, what goes on

    Agreed, but if he hadn't been able to afford such a starry defense team, surely he would have done serious time for the double-murder.
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    US Presidential Election - What's your take?

    At least she pays her taxes.
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