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    Used house surprises, even 10 years later

    Eh, 10 years over here is practically the time a major renovation (read: rebuild) is necessary again. Hyoerboling a bit but you get my drift. Talking about flipping circuit breakers (MCB’s) and electrical wiring electrocuting multiple cats on the roof:
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    How do you guys invest?

    On the housing situation I tend to agree with Herbert; there are so many costs involved it can be amazing. And I don’t see those going down; esp. the kompleks security and maintenance. Currently real estate is not such a great investment unless you can pinpoint the new trends. Unlike in HK...
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    How do you guys invest?

    Not if his wife is WNI
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    How do you guys invest?

    About LPS: Assuming you’re banking with a commercial bank (Umum), the current rate for rupiah accounts is 3,5%. So that means if your bank goes under, you’d get nothing back from your deposito’s with 5% interest rate. We take those risks also, I don’t see a lot of problems currently with Bank...
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    President Prabowo and Teddy Indra Wijaya: accusations have ignited a social media firestorm

    Not to deviate too much but obviously you can say the same about the orange man surrounding himself with incompetent but loyal ya sayers… . Obviously here in RI there is another very sensitive dimension of the story. Clue; the president’s son …
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    Free meals for children (MBG) is it good as intended ??

    The problem here is they can not back down if one of the main (election) promises made does not work out. A bit similar with Jokowi’s pet project of moving the capital city.
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    Can a foreigner legally build and operate a villa rental business in Bali?

    That’s a bit the problem with all these ‘juridical and legal’ websites, they are focused on domestic residential regions and locals. Suburban developments in Tangerang or PIK or so. The moment you step foot on the island, you see a very different picture. A Balinese person wanted to sell a...
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    Can a foreigner legally build and operate a villa rental business in Bali?

    True. It’s a very different world. Main reasons are the Balinese do not want to relinquish control and the sheer amount of foreigners who don’t want something they are not familiar with.
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    Expectations re the Middle East.

    German Defense Secretary Boris Pistorius calls the US decision to withdraw 5,000 soldiers from Germany "predictable". The news came after a week in which US President Donald Trump openly argued with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Trump was angry because Merz had criticized the American war in...
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    How to obtain Indonesian Citizenship

    Yeah the ‘Dutch’ football players were already more… Interesting concept, heritage players.… .
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    Doing DIY at step-parent's house, is that 'working' ?

    Early ‘24.
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    Expectations re the Middle East.

    Not really, NDF’s follow the public holidays of the countries concerned. For those who are not familiar with this: Quite many currencies, especially in emerging markets, are blocked, they call that non-convertible. That means they can not be freely exchanged outside a country and they can’t...
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    Expectations re the Middle East.

    ‘Now‘ is not possible since it’s a public holiday. So BI uses yesterday’s rate and no updates of the JISDOR.
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    Indonesia to go Nuclear?

    In the mean time Belgium is nationalizing its 7 nuclear reactors and has gone completely the opposite direction of 20 years ago when they sold them to Engie (+Electrabel) and had a plan to dismantle all of them this decade.
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    Doing DIY at step-parent's house, is that 'working' ?

    I think there is. The C6B for volunteering allows foreigners wishing to participate in volunteering / humanitarian projects in Indonesia. For instance in a yayasan. As long as there is no payment involved and you’re being sponsored by a foundation or charity. Many (Dutch sponsored) organizations...
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    Unlimited KITAP

    If you think that affects very few people* and don’t consider it important, you have no clue about the Indonesian society. And obviously many cases have been popping up on expat forums. Also, most of the 60.000-80.000 Chinese Muslims are converts, that could be opportunistic but many are because...
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    Waste Management in Indonesia

    You call that evidence? What someone writes on social media? We still have our trash being collected there (close to La Favela). Perhaps you don’t know, but that is in Seminyak yes. And you know what? I don’t know of any foreigner/bule/WNA/tourist/pensionado/… who is burning her/his trash...
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    Stay Permit Expiry date

    I remember many years ago a forum member got into trouble since the Immigration officer did not buy that ‘go through passport control and thus leave before midnight’ trick.
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    Expectations re the Middle East.

    Several countries, including Germany, announced measures to reduce gasoline prices. These were mainly excise reductions, Germany even went one step further with the Kraftstoffanpassungsgesetz measure. Because of this new rule, gas stations in the country are only allowed to increase their...
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    Growing a Vegetable Garden?

    Btw, those durians are very cool to grow yourself. Often fails if you just put them in / on top of soil. This is a better method: Take seeds that are thick and full. Clean them well without damaging them. Put them on a bed of wet cotton-wool in a small transparant food container that you close...

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