Aussie startup looking for creative and manufacturing partnerships

[Shoegirl]

Bali is the melting pot for creative start ups and high quality ethical manufacturing and this aligns perfectly with my new brand for children's shoes.
I am a Melbourne girl who is looking to collaborate with creatives and manufacturing in Bali and hope this forum can help me get started with my knowledge tree!
I am keen to chat to genuine passionate people who can help me.

Shoegirl x

 

[Markit]

Jeez don't play "catch-phrase" bingo with this girl!

Bali's a melting pot for start ups? Nah... it's just were bad ideas go to die.
How can you have "Ethical" shoes?
What is a "creative"?
How do you collaborate with a "manufacturing"?
I'd love to help with your "knowledge tree" but mine got termites and died last week. Maybe I can have a sprig from yours?
Are there hordes of fake passionate people around? That are dying to help you?

 

[Rodney Sprague]

Bali is the melting pot for creative start ups and high quality ethical manufacturing and this aligns perfectly with my new brand for children's shoes.
I am a Melbourne girl who is looking to collaborate with creatives and manufacturing in Bali and hope this forum can help me get started with my knowledge tree!
I am keen to chat to genuine passionate people who can help me.

Shoegirl x

Dear Shoegirl, I hope you do not imagine that you can simply set up a manufacturing industry in a country like Indonesia without first complying with necessary business and visa requirements. Bali is (like the rest of Indonesia) a closed marketplace. To get permits to set up a business (legally) you will encounter reams of paperwork, months of waiting time and costly bribes to government officials just to process your applications. The alternative is to risk a visit from a couple of Immigration Officials who will confiscate your passport and impound your goods, put you in a cell and eventually deport you at your cost with a 7 year ban on returning to Indonesia.