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Mark wroteSure, no problem, don't worry about it, at your own risk. The fact is that the agrarian law in Indonesia says that foreigners cannot own land.
Agreed.
The nominee structure is a contractual arrangement whose sole and express purpose is to circumvent this law.
Disagree. The nominee arrangement is a set of notarized contracts between the foreigner and the legal owner. They amount to a lease with conditions as per the contracts.
I have not read anything from an Indonesian lawyer to suggest that such arrangements are legal or enforceable.
Disputes over details of nominee arrangements end up in Bali courts. I have never seen the vailidty of the contracts questioned.
If you have a local legal opinion otherwise, then please share it.
I have no need for a legal opinion as I do not have a dispute. I have bought and old using nominee structure. It all goes smoothly.
I still don't get it... why always the push back on Indonesian law, whether property, visas etc.
There is no pushback. The law is fine .
Yes, we don't always like it, and it yes, there is lots of room for 'interpretation' and 'uang facilitation' but at the end of the day we are all guests, so let's give up on trying to create utopia and just respect the laws. If we don't like them, then we can go somewhere else...
Bit of a rant here. I do not dislike the law, I am not trying to bribe anyone, I am not striving to create some utopia, and I am not planning on going somewhere else.
I don't have a problem - maybe you do.
