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    Doctors and Hospitals

    They are certainly better, and the prices better. Surabaya is a big city with a wealthy resident population. Private hospitals there need to offer respectable standards to stay in business, unlike the "foreigner clinics" in Bali which have an endless supply of sick and desperate incomers to...
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    Suicides in Bali

    kura kura - apologies; plenty of people do whip out "Jakarta" when "Javanese culture" is being discussed, without realising that culturally, linguistically and ethnically Jakarta (and the area around it) are entirely other islands... But you knew that anyway. I'd also point out that there...
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    Suicides in Bali

    Adam, wow, what a great reply, thank you so much for taking the time. I'll just say a quick hey to mimpimanis, then I'll address... Mimpi, thanks for the link. I suppose it's good to know that levels dropped last year, but the question remains, why were they so high in the first place? As...
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    Suicides in Bali

    Not the most cheery of topics, but none the less it's something that has really caught my attention. Over the last month or so I've been reading rather a lot of Bali-based Indoneisan language newpapers and news websites. Normally I'm in Java, and normally I read the Indonesian language local...
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    What would you do...?

    Quite straightforward, and more or less as said above. IF - and it should be a big if - you decide to help then you should take her in person to a doctor entirely of your choosing, and accompany her for the examination throughout. For a local person to see a gynecologist in a "good", upmarket...
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    Moving to bali - opening a shop

    And there's you're first mistake mister, a massive lack of market research... I'll brush lightly over the issue of referring to "them" as "natives", and continue to point out that the wedding industry, the glossy, "western style", over-the-top, all-white, astronomically expensive wedding...
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    Visa - no clue how this system works

    Effie, A certain amount of misinformation here. A sixty day tourist visa CAN BE EXTENDED INSIDE INDONESIA, JUST LIKE A 60 DAY TOURIST OR SOCIAL VISA. It has the same code as the other two - B211. The only difference is that you do not need a sponsor to get it... In theory, just like a social...
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    Doctors and Hospitals

    As lumumba says, "The extra money you will pay doesn't give you a better doctor/medicines, you'll still get the same sh** If you know what i mean", and that is precisely the issue. I had to see a doctor in Singapore for a nasty case of pink-eye a few months back, and had to pay what worked out...
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    Doctors and Hospitals

    Just for reference as I'm temporarily in Bali, any recomendations for a) good doctors/clinics in South Bali for general GP issues, and b) a good hospital for more serious issues. I am usually based in Surabaya where mercifully I can go to my local clinic and pay Rp40,000 just like everyone...
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    Kemarin/besok

    Kemarin stretches further than besok, but both go well beyond the literal "tomorrow" and "yesterday". You can legitimately use kemarin for anything up to several months ago - and even, occasionally, beyond that. If people want to make it very clear that they are talking about something a good...
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    Processing slide film in Bali

    Thanks guys. I had suspected as much - what with no lab at all in the whole of East Java province (it took me about six months of searching before I finally accepted that unhappy fact), and with only a couple of substandard ones in JKT. I just thought Bali might be the most likely place for a...
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    ONE MORE 60 day Tourist Visa question...

    sorry, that's a sticky key on my side; when I wrote: what I meant was there are NOW regular reports... Markit Right from the time the 30-day "tourist" visa on arrival was introduced (replacing the old 60-day free arrival stamp) you have been free to apply for a sixty day visa as a tourist...
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    Processing slide film in Bali

    New here, couldn't work out where best to post this. Point me in the right direction if I have erred... Does anyone know if there is a photo lab somewhere in Bali that can still process good old fashioned slide film (just regular 135, not medium format or anything)? In the whole of Surabaya...
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    ONE MORE 60 day Tourist Visa question...

    Actually, the 60-tourist visa can also be extended, in theory up to six months, just like a social visa. It actually has the same code as the sixty-day social and business visas - B211. The only difference is that you don't require a sponsor to get it. A couple of years ago extensions didn't...