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HA HA, That's funny. Oops, I just got a smart phone and it's a bit too smart for me, obviously. It came up as a recent post. Oh well Oh,, and anyone coming to my place from OS must be cheese or wine or both if they want a coffee.

Some great suggestions, from my experience living in a Balinese village for years. It depends greatly on your relationship with the people, and greatly depends on their income etc. 3 times in 5 years is not a close relationship (not with Balinese). The first thing is as you are coming...

My mother is the same agem single and I can see this happening to her (yet, she doesn't have a house to sell, and only lives off an old age pension). I'd approach it in a different way, if it was my mother in law. I'd sit her down and say, look, if you want to live in Bali for the rest of your...

Hello Could someone please advise if we wish to have BPN survey our land, can we just walk into their office and request a survey? Or, does anyone have a contact for one? We are having a neighbour boundary disbute, oh, so much fun. Our neighbour (foreigner who has leased his land for...

I met a Preman a few months back, was a surreal experience. My husband got a call from one of his friends who is a Traffic Polisi and they were chatting about catching up, turns out we were in Denspasar the same time as him (we all work in Kintamani), hadn't seen him in months so decided to...

I presumed a creepy crawly may have made its way in there, probably not a cockroach, the cats and dogs dont let them get far enough, but the gecko's are quick, speaking of lizards, the dogs today chased a very large Monitor Lizard into the pool that looked like a baby alligator on the bottom...

Our water dispenser Hot/cold seems to have sprung a leak, dont need the electrics fixed, probably just a water tube replacement. Anyone know where to get one fixed?

Hi all Just got back from Penang and we did our KITAS (new one, after 6th time you have to leave and country and do a new one) in 24 hours, no extra to pay, went in before 12noon, told to come back in the morning, no plane ticket required. Met a couple doing a 60 days tourist visa, they...

Hi Penny, welcome to Ungasan, just be aware that over here on the big dry rock "Ungasan" we dont get that much rain, in fact its been dry for 2 weeks, friends just down the road in Nusa Dua had enough to fill our tanks the other day while we had sunshine, forecast for the next 2 months -...

Hi all, Penang didn't get back to us, so rang Jakarta immigration and they said they can send our telex for our KITAS to Penang embassy, so we will be going to Penang in May, will report how it went

Thanks, I have emailed them, they aren't answering their phone, did see their stats for 2011, they did 212 VITAS (KITAS), so worked out they must do them, but the timing is what I need to know now. If I get a reply will post here for others.

Has anyone done a VITAS (for a new KITAS) in Penang, of so, how long did it take?

Had an interesting conversation with our lawyers representative in their Bali office yesterday (but I always get a second opinion when dealing with the Bali branch). A pondok wisata, yes indeed has to be applied in a locals name, only required for a house with more than 3 bedrooms. There is a...

Thanks for the clarification Gilbert, I guess a small business is fine, I wouldn't want to put money into a house in that situation.

This is the second time I have read 51% Indonesian owned, is this new? I don't think we would have started without more than 50%..

Agree, that's why we pointed it out to our neighbour. Note: they ran out of plates and said make your own in the meantime, he said he wanted one in a week, he went back 1 week later and they had obviously bought more metal. 25,000IDR for the plate. Just pointing out that is can be done after...

Hi Pete here is the link to what you need in the Badung regency, you will have to put it in a translator if you don't read Indonesian. http://www.badungkab.go.id/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=49 you will see you need a KTP (local id) or KITAS, it doesn't mention KITAS...

Hi all just wanted to let you know that a neighbour built a house without an IMB (he didn't even know about them until we pointed it out) and then decided to sell, so he applied for the IMB and he got it 18 months after the house was finished. He is a foreigner married to an Indonesian and...

Our Balinese friend just renewed the 'lease' on the land that a very famous and large Hotel in Kuta sits on, his father leased the land to the original hotel owner for 10 million rupiah, 25 years ago, he just leased it to them for ???? million dollars, price cannot be disclosed. He bought his...