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    Gas water heater

    So we fitted a Paloma 5l gas water heater. These gas water heaters are rated for minimum 0.2bar pressure. I'm not sure what pressure we had, but it wasn't good. Maybe our tank was 3m high? Anyway, the gas water heater worked kinda, but you needed to have it set so the temperature of the output...
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    Choosing a school in Indonesia

    I am not sure that we can so easily define people's language as right or wrong, since language is not purely a matter of legal definitions. It is in any case correct to call a KB a PAUD, legally. I suspect such usage is rather widespread. And of course it is helpful to understand if we pass...
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    Seo

    I am not really sure why you are sharing this. Anyway, you obviously don't watch enough movies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DivHqBN89g
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    Choosing a school in Indonesia

    PAUD is actually more commonly (although this may vary regionally) used to refer to a Kelompok Bermain (playgroup). Thus although PAUD means 'early year education' in general, if you say 'anak saya mau masuk PAUD', you mean they are going to playgroup (KB). If your child was to go to...
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    Seo

    Well there was a time when I couldn't find it, despite knowing it existed. That seemed fairly problematic. I think the lack of organic (search engine) driven growth is also problematic if you want to avoid an echo chamber or old boys' club. Also with things like the aforementioned 'long tail'...
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    Seo

    You kinda need to be in first place though. Eighth or fifth isn't worth too much in terms of % of clicks. especially as it is behind a load of dross. Also the 'long tail' stuff such as 'kitas online' invariably comes behind a bunch of other sites. Google doesn't seem to find the site authoritative.
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    Seo

    This place seems to have very bad Google Juice. Any theories?
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    Cycling

    Anyone else a fan? Maybe it depends where you live, but I find that a hardtail is the best thing here, for broken on-road use. The main brand in Indonesia is Polygon. There are cheaper brands, but Polygon has decent specs I bought an Xtrada 6...
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    Choosing a school in Indonesia

    There should be some explanation of school starting age. 'Grade 1' is not a universal term. Some missing school types: SMK MAK PAUD KB TPA/TPQ TK RA
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    Announcing Expat Indo companion website!!

    They are just standard localized phrases (maybe three phrases, total, across the entire course) used over and over again. And in any case it's obvious without any explanation that you just need to translate from one language to the other. Granted it's not as useful as the reverse course would...
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    Announcing Expat Indo companion website!!

    Doesnt help? Why do you think that?
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    Money transfer stolen

    It's absolutely essential, unless you have a different definition of 'living among'. There is 'living among', in a city, where people have walls and fences. And then there is living in a kampung. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr4bnPijv80 Any tourist can come to Indonesia and take...
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    Indonesian's Desensitized.

    Source?
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    Regaining Indonesian Citizenship

    There is some question about whether the citizenship is actually lost directly, or if it requires some steps by the Indonesian authorities. For now at least in the UK, the Indonesian embassy appears to allow people to just give up their British passport, without any formal process of citizenship.
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    Indonesian's Desensitized.

    THis is not true. Indonesia's social media penetration is half of Singapore's. Most people do not have social media.
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    More Floggings in Aceh

    Aceh has extreme laws, the same as Terengganu. It's not so much that the religion is extreme, but that it's forbidden for Christians to proselytise.
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    Money transfer stolen

    I didn't assume that, I was told that. Had my available information been only 'wife had sent 25 million instead of 2.5 million', then I would have ascribed the dishonesty directly to the mother-in-law, in the absence of further evidence. Clearly there is a difference between 'accidentally sent...
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    Indonesia Suspended From OPEC. What Does it Mean?

    Indonesia was a founder member of OPEC at a time when its population was maybe 1/3 of today Since that time oil production hasn't increased but consumption has grown massively. Hence Indonesia is not a net exporter of oil and its interests are not furthered by higher oil prices. So it doesn't...
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    More Floggings in Aceh

    I just looked up Kec. Gunung Meriah, Singkil. (Just because the data are fairly complete). They classify ethnically as Dairi, Aceh, Minang, Jawa, and Lainnya. It is not clear what they mean by 'Dairi', but it may mean both Pakpak (likely to be Christian) and Singkil (all Muslim), since they...
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    More Floggings in Aceh

    I didn't say that they were exclusively linked, just that there is a very, very strong tie. If you tell the non-Christians to leave Aceh you will cause thousands of Batak to leave but just a handful of members of suku Aceh.

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