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    GoCar / Grab from Bali Airport to a hotel in Legian?

    Thank you both for your quick replies. It has been a few years since my family and I last traveled to Bali, so we are looking forward to the trip. Fwiw, there is no immigration / customs, as we are coming from Jakarta. Rimowa and Tumi, LOL - try knockoff Samsonite from Mangga Dua :cool: I am...
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    GoCar / Grab from Bali Airport to a hotel in Legian?

    Does DPS airport have a specific pickup location for online taxis (not ojeks; we are a family of four)? Or does the taxi mafia still have a stranglehold on rides from the airport?
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    Excellent article about growing up as a mixed kid in Indonesia

    I wonder if the experience is different in Jakarta than in Bali. My kids (Grade 11 & 8 at the moment) have always attended international-curriculum schools, but they have never expressed such difficulties. Maybe it is because they have large-is friend groups who all feel more comfortable...
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    Dual citizenship, how likely is it?

    This would be huge, but hopefully, it will apply to kids who are already alive, rather than only to kids born in its year of going into effect. My kiddos, born in 2005 and 2008, had two entirely different processes for applying for Indonesian passports. This time, it would be nice if the new law...
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    Quarantine back to 7 days starting December

    Agree here. If you were to make a Venn Diagram of the countries with the highest tourist spending in Indonesia vs. countries on the list, I imagine there would be a pretty large overlap.
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    Coming soon: No more PCR/antigen tests for fully vaccinated domestic travellers.

    Great news! Hopefully, "fully vaccinated" does not require a booster.
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    Punishment for women who don't want to wear jilbab

    For what it's worth, I also think that guys look better with short hair; in my opinion, long hair is never an improvement to guys' appearances. It is even more irrelevant, as not only am I happily married but I would not be attracted to guys regardless of my marital status.
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    Punishment for women who don't want to wear jilbab

    I fully acknowledged this when I said that my opinion is irrelevant. People are allowed to have aesthetic opinions, and people are allowed to summarily ignore those opinions. I even mentioned that these are opinions I do not share publicly outside of Internet forums.
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    Punishment for women who don't want to wear jilbab

    I legitimately find natural hair to be far more attractive than a jilbab. It is irrelevant, as I am happily married, but when has a jilbab ever actually made someone prettier? IMHO, it is like a guy wearing a neon pink suit. His choice, but it does not make him more attractive. These opinions...
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    Punishment for women who don't want to wear jilbab

    Well, I guess I will step into it... My attitude about jilbabs: "You do you, but you d*mn well not tell my Christian wife or daughter to wear one." Aesthetically, I have never seen a woman for whom a jilbab was an improvement over her natural hair. IMHO, women pretty much look worse when wearing...
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    6.7 Earthquake in Banten, 200km from Jakarta

    I felt rapid shaking accompanied by intense rattling of classroom doors in the hallway of the third floor of the building where I work in West Jakarta. I had never seen my door rattle like that before. Even though it seemed to go on for a long time, it was actually about a minute. We are lucky...
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    Quarantine back to 7 days starting December

    There are HUGE differences in the quality of food provided; I speak from experience!
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    Fertility checks for marriage

    I guess this is yet more proof that it is better to get married outside Indonesia if at all possible.
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    Fertility checks for marriage

    I have never heard of fertility and TORCH testing being a requirement for marriage in Indonesia. My wife and I were married in the US, and never had either of those. What happens if one of the partners is infertile? Does this Pak Lurah refuse to allow postmenopausal women to marry?
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    Quarantine back to 7 days starting December

    My guess is that the 10 days is a direct result of the first US case being detected 9 days after arrival.
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    Vaccine effectiveness and Herd Immunity

    I think you and I are on the same side (pro-vaccine) here. Earlier this year, some US-based anti-vaxxers were refusing to take Covid vaccines, specifically the Pfizer ones, because the FDA had "only" granted emergency use authorization for those vaccines. As of a couple months ago, those people...
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    Vaccine effectiveness and Herd Immunity

    The Pfizer vaccine is not on trial for adults aged 18+; it has FULL APPROVAL from the FDA; there is no higher level of approval in the US.
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    Is Importing Meat Legal In Indonesia?

    Out of all of the peculiar written and unwritten laws I have heard of here, I have never heard of a UU against wiping one's baggage. I have "lightly disinfected" my luggage every time I entered the country for the past 9 years, and have never gotten so much as a sideways glance from customs...
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    Christmas NYE 2021 cancelled

    Is our church (which reopened for in-person three weeks ago) going to have a regular Sunday service on the 26th of December but no Christmas Eve or Christmas Day services? Masks indoors, Pedulilindungi, and temperature checks would be plenty of protection against another outbreak, but certain...
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    Vaccine effectiveness and Herd Immunity

    I have heard that many academic institutions are moving from a "number of publications" model to a "number of citations" model because of the difficulty in differentiating between higher and lower quality journals. Have you seen this in your field?

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