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    Job market for IT (etc.) in Jakarta

    I have been living a bit off-grid, but was considering trying life in the big smoke for a while. (Have never lived there.) I have KTP (via ex-wife), and know Indonesian language, law, culture, etc. very well for a foreigner. I used to work in .NET + SQL server, but not for rather a long time...
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    OCBC account opening - reference letter

    Anyone familiar with this bank? I wanted to open an account with them as they have good foreign currency facilities but they said I needed a letter of reference from my employer (don't have one - spousal KITAP) or an existing WNI customer. I am not sure if this is a policy everywhere or just...
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    Mixed children before 1st August 2006

    I am looking at UU 62 1958 http://hukum.unsrat.ac.id/uu/uu_62_58.htm in terms of the status of my son, who as born before 1 August 2006. The law provides these (among others) are Indonesian: "c. anak yang lahir dalam 300 hari setelah ayahnya meninggal dunia, apabila ayah itu pada waktu...
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    Dual national passport process, UK

    https://indonesianembassy.org.uk/consular/pelayanan-kekonsuleran-bagi-wni/tentang-dwi-kewarganegaraan The requirements to obtain dual nationality in the UK & Ireland, for children born on/after 1st August 2006 only: child's British passport, original, plus legalised photocopy (cost is £30 for...
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    New immigration fees from 2nd may 2019

    PP 28/2019 (please post link if you have it) Rise in overstay fee from 300k to 1 million per day
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    Burgled

    So this is fun. Some of you may have followed the saga of my wife and her useless family (top tip: run far away from any prospective Indonesian spouse if their family does not seem to be 'pillars of the community'). Anyway, the last thing was my mother-in-law died last year. She had been...
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    Dual nationality for children born before 1st August 2006

    http://ditjenpp.kemenkumham.go.id/arsip/bn/2016/bn1938-2016.pdf According to the regulation: Article 5: 1) Applicants who claim Indonesian nationality according to Article 2(1) [Dual Nationality] are (a) Children born before 1st August 2006 with a Ministerial Decision regarding Indonesian...
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    Posting alcohol from outside Indonesia

    So I read under the regulations you can apparently send a bottle of 350ml alcohol free of any import duties. http://www.pbtaxand.com/assets/uploads/files/1537848280-112_PMK_04_2018.pdf This is rather an unfortunate figure, as e.g., a half bottle of wine would be 375ml, which would be...
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    Electricity prabayar

    This is not accurate https://www.expatindo.org/prepaid-electricity-indonesia/ PPN (10%) is only charged at 7700VA and higher, as per PP 81 2015. You will NOT be charged PPN if your meter is below this. Note that 6600W is three phase only, so it's 5500VA then 7700VA. Some people have two or...
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    Indonesia hospital fun

    Just trying to deal with sick mother-in-law. First thing try to get treated using BPJS (national health insurance). You need a letter referring from one level to the next to the next, and then the beds at a reasonable hospital are all full. So we tried private. (Siloam / Lippo Group)...
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    Toto ecowasher or similar

    So we have Toto ecowasher. Price is ok (under 2 million including the toilet, on promo). But pressure is very low, they use a tiny pipe. This is presumably deliberate. In comparison, the hose pipe gun that is popular in Indonesia can feel more like you are pressure washing your butt. However it...
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    Punishment for women who don't want to wear jilbab

    Taken from Facebook, attributed to 'H.R. Imam Bukhari dan Muslim' (my translation from Indonesian) "1. Punishment for women who expose the hair on their head to those other than their husband: Her hair will be hung in the fires of hell until it boils her brain and this will last as long as she...
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    Ceiling fans/importing from Malaysia

    I was just looking at Panasonic Indonesia's shitty range of overpriced shitty technology (around 2.7 million for a basic model with remote), and comparing with Panasonic Malaysia's range (500 MYR for a top-of-the-range DC motor model which goes down to 2.5 watts at low speed and has temperature...
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    Inability of tourists to realise they've been ripped off

    Just reading a review of a guesthouse on AirBNB. It's a cheap guesthouse with multiple rooms each sold from 50 to 150,000rp per room per night. The property is configured in AirBNB as an 8-bedroom house at 150,000IDR per night, and the price doesn't change between one guest and say 10 guests...
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    National park entrance fee for kitas holder

    I was trying to find somewhere that spells this out - there is a super-high national park entrance fee of 150,000IDR (or more) for 'wisatawan mancanegara' and only 5,000 IDR for 'wisatawan nusantara'. However, these terms are not defined in the law, e.g., in terms of kitas holder, etc. Anyone...
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    Paying tax

    From what I can see all of the small businesses (some making a few M) in my area don't bother with taxation at all. They just run their business and that's it. They have bank accounts with reasonable sums of money going in and out, and go on foreign trips to Saudi Arabia and what not. But no...
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    Indonesian comic artist turns out to be an anti-Semitic bigot

    So the good news is Marvel Comics employed an Indonesian artist. The bad news is he hid anti-semitic and pro-Islamic extremist messages in his work. There is a reference to 2/12 protests, Quran 5:51 ("O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in...
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    BPJS fraud

    So my mother-in-law got ill. In hospital. No BPJS (as she couldn't be bothered). But not to worry, it's apparently completely standard to 'borrow' someone else's name & BPJS and pay them some nominal sum to avoid the little matter of not actually being insured.
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    Penis fish

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFegFObrQ4E
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    Indonesian standards of feminine behaviour

    Just LOLing at comments on FB from a local ibu. Basically she uploaded this picture: (my censorship) with the comment " Dia pkir udh hebat x dengan dia berbuat sprti itu. Ibu ambil fotonya, skalian Ibu Upload lg. Yg satu itu pdhal masi kelas XIIB SMK skrg. Aneh kan? Dia gak tau klo dia yg...

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