Welcome to the forum. I hope your voice adds to the diversity. It sounds like an interesting situation. I know many ex WNI and a few that regained citizenship in retirement or for business opportunities. Many exWNI I know are Chinese-Indonesian or LGBT and did not want to be Indonesian anymore.
Thank you!
Shall we just say... I'm a member of several minorities, not necessarily the ones you mention.
I'm not entrepreneur-minded so probably would not be coming back for business. As for retirement ... a KITAP might be appealing but needing to be sponsored seams burdensome. We'll see, that is decades away
If you were born abroad, did you always have dual citizenship and now you are choosing that over Indonesia? Since the dual citizenship law of 2006, some members have children or relatives approaching the necessity of choosing citizenship.
Wasn't born in a jus soli country so that was not an option. My parents came back before I was of age to claim citizenship - and I turned 21 before the 2006 law anyway!
I know the United States is a much more powerful passport than Indonesia. What are your motivations to choose naturalization vs permanent resident?
Partly that. I like to travel (don't get much opportunity now with a small kid and pets), and also have to travel for work, and currently the latter is a major hassle. Especially to the Schengen area...
Several countries, mostly in the Western hemisphere, let US PRs travel visa free, but that's it.
The other thing is... PR status has to be renewed every 10 years, and while it is mostly a smooth process, I have heard horror stories of what happened if you need to, say, get a mortgage while renewing. Or lose your card (takes a few months to get a replacement).
That, and worrying it will get worse under a different administration, and also wanting to make my voice heard here (positions like school boards are elected but in most of the country only citizens can vote even in local elections), while feeling more out of touch with Indonesian politics over time.
