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    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    I live here, I don’t have a choice but to pay attention. Things are gonna get worse before it gets better.
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    Trump Indicted for Conspiracy To Change the 2020 Election

    Yet 43% of Americans would still vote for him if the election is held today. That’s the scary part.
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    I don’t remember. These days I hardly remember what I ate for lunch yesterday, let alone what I posted several years ago. I do remember saying something about Suharto’s attempt to shore up support for his regime be coopting Muslim scholars, which is similar to what the Saud royal family does...
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    The history of Islam in Java is enough to fill several books. The short version is that the original Javanese Islam is positively different from Arabic Islam. Of course the Arabs call it the ‘wrong’ kind of Islam, just like Catholics call Protestants the wrong kind of Christians.
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    Not sure about the Japanese, but Koreans have a beauty standard even closer to white people. The statistics say between 25% to 50% of younger Korean women have had plastic surgery. As for Chinese Indonesians, well, the majority stick to their own probably because of a long history of...
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    Speaking of toplessness, in the 1920s it was a perfectly normal state of dress for Balinese women. A few decades before that, it was common in Java too. They didn’t see women’s breasts as erotic, just like today we don’t see men’s breasts as erotic either. The Dutch and their ‘modern’ western...
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    To me it’s just a stereotype. The average Indonesian men prefer light skinned women with a sharp nose, oval face, and defined cheek bones, somewhat close to the western standard. It’s worth saying that stereotypes by their very nature don’t apply to everybody, and they’re always offensive to...
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    She has the profile Indonesians called ‘sebul’ a.k.a. selera bule (bule flavor). It’s quite amusing to see the stereotype fits.
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    The Cage is now open! Please, register here for access.

    As I get older, my tolerance for bullshit decreases, but so does my will to fight. You can say I’m running out of fucks to give. The place used to be livelier when I still spared an hour responding to particularly stupid stuff. Today I ask myself if I really want to spend the next 10 minutes...
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    How Indonesian resort island Bali became a refuge for Ukrainians and Russians

    France also has a progressive income tax system, where richer people are taxed more. That doesn’t contradict equality under the law, because everybody at the same income level is taxed at the same rate. Applying the same concept to fines should not be a problem. If the fine is not progressive...
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    I want out...

    Even as far back as the 90s, Balinese like to say that there are no Balinese petty criminals, they are all Javanese and Madurese. There’s probably some truth to that, but I take it with a large grain of salt. Blaming immigrants for all the ills of society is a time honored tradition everywhere...
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    I want out...

    Strangely enough, I think people who ‘bashed’ you are doing you a favor, it’s a case of tough love. Let me put it this way, if a few stern paragraphs from strangers on the internet is enough to make you jump away, you will run at the first sight of a real problem in Indonesia. Bali has a...
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    Back as an upper-middle income country, but will Indonesia be trapped there?

    I think they will enforce it through the ID you hold. If you fly in with a foreign passport, then you’d be marked as a tourist subject to the fee. If you show a KTP then you should be exempt. This being a Pemda initiative, it will likely be chaotic for the first months. They will have to set up...
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    very longterm overstay in Indonesia(help)

    Right. These are article 21 paragraphs 3 & 4 of the law no.5 of 1960 (Core Agrarian Law). Merely having another citizenship has the same effect of citizenship loss when it comes to property ownership. The law was targeting Indonesians who lost their citizenship when they left Indonesia to marry...
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    I want out...

    Very good and accurate advice. Anybody who wants to sample Indonesia needs at least 60 days to get the feel of the place. Apply for a B211A visa electronically. https://www.imigrasi.go.id/en/visa-kunjungan-satu-kali-perjalanan-b211a/ I was born and raised in Indonesia, and even I don’t take...
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    very longterm overstay in Indonesia(help)

    I think they ran into too many cases where they had to eat the cost of the return ticket for ignorant green card holders. The CBP is known to push the I-407 (voluntary abandonment of permanent residence) to this kind of PR, and many of them are either uninformed or too intimidated to refuse to...
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    very longterm overstay in Indonesia(help)

    The way I understand it the Agrarian law doesn’t require loss of Indonesian citizenship to take effect, it requires having foreign citizenship to prohibit ownership of land.
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    Back as an upper-middle income country, but will Indonesia be trapped there?

    The religious court handles the officiating of marriage, divorce proceedings, and division of inheritance between heirs of the estate. They don’t have jurisdiction beyond those areas.
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    very longterm overstay in Indonesia(help)

    When it comes to USA, even a full page hologrammed visa is never a guarantee of entry. They say the visa is “a permission to appear before an immigration officer in the United States”, and said officer is empowered to refuse entry to anybody deemed “inadmissible”, except for citizens and...

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