Hi Dynamoes and hope you have a great time here.
You do realise that you've been responding to posts from three+ years ago?
Perhaps that's why you've "misunderstood" some points.
I believe you can only renew your Kitas up to 5 times, then you must apply for a 5 year Kitap. Which means after 2 years you are NOT allowed to leave the country until you show a plane ticket receipt, submit it to the government, wait 2 weeks, then you can come and go as often as you wish but only for 2 more years, then you have to re-submit another plane ticket receipt to get one more year of multi entrance/exits! I don’t get it?
I don’t know
where you’ve got your information from so far. It’s confusing and wrong, IMHO.
I believe you can only renew your Kitas up to 5 times, then you must apply for a 5 year Kitap.
What kind of KITAS? For example, a retirement KITAS is for five years. Towards the end of the first year, you extend it annually four more times and that’s it. Total of five years. What then? You
don’t have to get a KITAP. I’ve never heard of having to show plane ticket receipts, etc, to apply for an exit permit. Never.
I am currently in the 10th year of my retirement KITAS. How? After the first five years I started all over again. And I can come and go as many times as I like in any particular year because my visa includes a MERP (multiple entry re-entry permit).
You
might be wondering why I don’t have a KITAP, which in my circumstances I
could have gotten after two years (because my wife is Indonesian).
Answer: I’ve never wanted one.
I hope this hasn’t added to your confusion. Welcome to sort of
Upside Down World (Indonesia).
Hope you're enjoying the start of Galungan.