Markit wrote
It seems to me that the structure for being a digital gonad is already in place called a PTMA. Oh! but that costs some money and effort to set up!? But all those digital gonads are earning sooo much money that they can donate to the local economy.
Actually no, they don't - most of them swarm around good Wifi points like flies to horse shit then sitting all day on a almond milk latte and full seed bun for lunch going out for a big IDR30k feed in the evening and to "network" where they can go be parasites tomorrow.
If anyone is giving out visas for the benefit of the visitors AND Indonesia try looking at retirees and land/house ownership. There you are talking about some real dosh. Not the yoga spaffing, latte sucking digital gonads selling shite from China with 3 month delivery times with a 10 times mark up in price from the producer - fecking parasites.
Yes. This is absolutely correct. You can usually find the Digital Gonad in their natural habitats of Canggu or Ubud. Just peek your head in any number of vegan cafes advertising smoothie bowls and selling ethically sourced, farm-to-table jasmine white rice (AKA nasi putih from the dirty sawah down the street) and you'll get the strong aroma of sweat, alcohol, and essential oils these Digital Gonad's usually emit.
The Digital Gonad prefers to spend about 1-2 hours a day of "real work" while the rest of the day is spent trying to find another roommate for their 4 bedroom shared villa built on illegal Tanah Hijau because the last roommate's parents cut off his trust fund. Digital Gonad's are nocturnal creatures, slithering out of their hibernation vegan cafes at night time to hit the bars for "networking" rituals.
In these rituals, hundreds of Digital Gonads gather in someplace they universally somehow deem as trendy at the time to drink small Bintang's for 50.000, watered-down cocktails for 120,000 and all share stories about how "blessed" they all are to live in "paradise" while simultaneously bitching about how much cooler Bali was 5 years ago.
As the night winds down, they get hungry and feeding time commences. After 3 hours gushing about their love for sambal and feeling "blessed" the local food is so cheap and delicious, the Digital Gonad herd aimlessly wanders past the ayam bakar guy to instead pay 150.000k for "artisan tacos" while saying how much cheaper the tacos are here than in their home countries.
This is the way of the Digital Gonad.
In all seriousness though, if Bali wants to create a visa like this, they need to make sure they are getting the high quality digital nomads. My suggestion is to make the visa expensive (taxes included) to weed out the smelly, yoga freeloaders and bring some actual smart entrepreneurs into the island instead.
