BaliLife wrote:All, in all due respect can I ask why nobody is stating the obvious, which s simply, you can do whatever u want with or without a kitas visa.. If u get caught and don't want to be sent home you'll need to make a 'charitable donation' to an appropriate official.. Close family friends just needed to buy back their indo daughters passport, which had been taken by immigration when she entered coz they found an aussie passport in her luggage.. Dual citizen is strictly not allowed in indo and she was told she'd lost her indo citizenship.. The daughter made the mistake of not paying on the spot, which she coulda easily done, but the only implication was the father had to pay more.. $120 US to get it back and get the registry cleared.. Other friends just bought an indo birth certificate and passport for their son who was born to a non indo father outside of indo which means he aint indonesian, cost in total less that $200.. So I find it hard to believe that u couldn't just buy ur way out of a work visa issue..
Ct
And in all due respect to you CT, but it's not necessarily as easy as you make it sound. It takes time and money to build up the right contacts to play the system in Indonesia - if you are interested in doing that, have the time, and lots of money. A newbie to Bali with no contacts is hardly going to be able to 'pay someone off' to get the right visa.
I'm not denying that corruption is a way of life in Indonesia, but it always will be if the rich continue to support it.
Someone who is the type of person who is interested in coming to Bali to donate their time and skills for free is hardly the sort of person who is going to seek an illegal visa. So I find your comments a bit irrelevant.
for something that is now legal.
