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  1. Puspawarna

    Howdy

    Welcome to the forum! I'm sure people here will be glad to help with any questions you have. A lot of the members here are people who permanently relocated to Indonesia, typically because their spouse is Indonesian. But my own experience was probably more like yours - a completely expat family...
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    Any idea how I can get my things back to my home? as I´m a WNA now :(

    Sorry I can't assist with your question. I just can't help wondering if maybe you and my son were in the same playgroup in Jakarta when you were little, as your description matches one of the families in the playgroup, and the ages seem right. If so, I remember you as an awesome little girl -...
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    US citizen WNI mother with KTP must declare citizenship

    I stand corrected on the ranking then, because while I don't recall the details of the 1-5 difficulty ranking that I referred to, I'd be stunned if it wasn't the Defense Language Institute. Shame on me for passing on half-assed incorrect information. Better take what I say with a grain of salt...
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    US citizen WNI mother with KTP must declare citizenship

    Back to BliGundul's question. (Hey, I just realized I've been misreading his name as "Bill Gundul." I've been thinking of him as "Bald Bill.") If your daughter hangs on to her Indonesian citizenship, she sounds like she is 80% of the way to being the dream candidate for multinational companies...
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    US citizen WNI mother with KTP must declare citizenship

    Thanks to Nimbus for "defending the honor," as it were, of Indonesian as a complex, rich language. I know people aren't trying to denigrate the language when they say how easy it is to learn, but it's hard not to feel as though the language is being disrespected, however unintentionally. In...
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    Novak Djokovic fights against deportation

    I agree with your sentiment, of course, but I assume the characterization "huge" was written while pony's tongue was firmly in cheek. I pay no attention to sports of any kind, but am good friends with a former tennis pro who follows the sport closely - he says Djokovic has always been a...
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    Punishment for women who don't want to wear jilbab

    You may certainly choose your own answer to that question, as may I. As a product of a particular strain of "modern society," I believe in choice and religious tolerance, and that includes granting agency to women and respecting their choice to wear jilbab.
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    Punishment for women who don't want to wear jilbab

    That's a matter of opinion, and a lot of people would agree with you. Some of the differences are more than "slight," however - the fact that women can't become priests is pretty significant. They are barred from a particular career path, one that is highly respected and influential within the...
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    Punishment for women who don't want to wear jilbab

    It's different because it discriminates by gender. Both men and women are not supposed to drink alcohol, but it's only women who have to cover their hair. However, inherent sexism is hardly a problem unique to Islam. In Roman Catholicism, women aren't allowed to be priests, for example.
  10. Puspawarna

    Hi everyone

    Sure! No rush. Your thoughts any time will be interesting. And Happy New Year!
  11. Puspawarna

    Hi everyone

    I didn't answer your question in my post; I figured I'd gone on long enough as it was. But since you ask: whether or not you can achieve quality of life in Jakarta depends on who you are and what makes you happy (also, I think money is an issue for everybody. Poverty anywhere is no good, but to...
  12. Puspawarna

    Hi everyone

    I lived in Jakarta for 17 years between 1993 and 2018. If you are patient, inquisitive, have a lot of good things going on in your life (happy family, fulfilling work, hobbies you can indulge), don't need tons and tons of hanging out with friends to be content, and "rich," it can be a good place...
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    Punishment for women who don't want to wear jilbab

    So, you've spoken to some jilbab-wearing women in Indonesia, and from there you extrapolate to 100% of jilbab-wearing women in the world? The difference between your confident assertion that you now know what all women think, and my assertion that the situation is nuanced, is that I completely...
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    Punishment for women who don't want to wear jilbab

    I'd be the last person to deny that oppression of women exists in just about any religion, including Islam. However, I'd be curious to know how many jilbab-wearing women, from how many countries, you've actually had serious conversations with about this. While I would not consider myself an...
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    The "Bule" Discussion

    Wow, this thread is an awesome, living illustration of the collision between language descriptivism and prescriptivism, with MissN championing the latter. Alas, history shows that descriptivism ALWAYS wins.
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    I tried tightening my vagina with jamu.

    I'd forgotten all about my tongkat Madura, but I for sure no longer have them. I wonder where they went?
  17. Puspawarna

    Gathering support and contacts in Jakarta

    It never gets old, though, does it?
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    Omicron

    Depends on what day you ask and what media source you're asking about. I'd like to think that I'm a discerning enough reader to separate out the reality from the slant. I have a pretty high level of trust in the facts reported by CNN, but I can identify a lot of leftie "spin" added. Don't get...
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    Omicron

    American has decent news sources. Reuters, NPR, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, to name a few. Just avoid the opinion and OpEd pages if you don't like the "slant." (WSJ opinion pieces make me bristle, but their news pages are respectable.) No media source is perfect...
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    Giordano Bruno

    I hate to break it to you MissNaughty, but "because Neil DeGrasse Tyson said so" is not airtight proof of anything. Granted, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with citing experts - if I use the Mayo Clinic as a source for my info, I deserve to be taken more seriously than if I quote the Daily...

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