So if you register your marriage in your home country, could she go & take 1/2?????????
I think that in Australia your wife takes 1/2, so if she is legally married to you, I think that if my wife went to Australia & applied to the courts she could get 1/2?????????
I wonder if a pre-nup in Indonesia would be recognized in your home country????????
From your comments though Alphonso it seems you have a very narrow minded view about mixed marriages here in Bali. There are plenty of decent honest local people here on the island, maybe you should get out more and meet some of them, who knows you might even make some friends. :icon_mrgreen:
Just so you know everything is going to be in my Fiances name, call me crazy, I would too if some one came on here and said they were buying land under their fiances name given that there are so many horror stories out there. If I find she's and her family are scamming me I would not only walk away quietly but give her an oscar for a fabulous acting performance.
Good onya, BKT, way to go making it personal. Looks like I touched a nerve there.
You seem to be doing ok posting your own "narrow minded views" on this forum, with impunity, but it's not ok for the gander eh?
But please, do us all a favour and do away with the pretense...
Ha, the good old fashioned Balipod bashing. I was already amazed how we went through 50 posts without insults.
Congratulations Alphonso!
Thank you for the above. However, I don't really understand it.(1) Only Indonesian citizens can have a hak milik.
(2) The Government is to determine which corporate bodies can have a hak milik and the conditions thereof.
(3) A foreigner who, following the entry into force of this Act, acquires a hak milik by way of inheritance without a will or by way of joint ownership of property resulting from marriage and an Indonesian citizen holding a hak milik who, following the entry into force of this Act, loses Indonesian citizenship is obliged to relinquish that right within one year following the date the hak milik is acquired in the case of the former or following the date upon which Indonesian citizenship is lost in the case of the latter. If following the expiry of the said timr periods, the right is not relinquished, then the siad right is nullified for the sake of law and the land falls to the State with the proviso that the rights of other parties which encumber the lands remain in existence.
(4) As long as one with Indonesian citizenship concurrently holds foreign citizenship, he/she cannot have land with the status of a hak milik, and to him/her the provision as meant in paragraph 3 of this article shall apply.
Good onya, BKT, way to go making it personal. Looks like I touched a nerve there.
You seem to be doing ok posting your own "narrow minded views" on this forum, with impunity, but it's not ok for the gander eh?
But please, do us all a favour and do away with the pretense...
good thing she didn't take your last name, sometimes notary's are reluctant to put land titles in western lastnames...maybe because of the law, "a wife of a foreigner cannot own land,
something like that...don't know the details about that though...haven't bothered to check it out in detail, since if there is a law like that it's bullocks
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(1) Only Indonesian citizens can have a hak milik.
(2) The Government is to determine which corporate bodies can have a hak milik and the conditions thereof.
(3) A foreigner who, following the entry into force of this Act, acquires a hak milik by way of inheritance without a will or by way of joint ownership of property resulting from marriage and an Indonesian citizen holding a hak milik who, following the entry into force of this Act, loses Indonesian citizenship is obliged to relinquish that right within one year following the date the hak milik is acquired in the case of the former or following the date upon which Indonesian citizenship is lost in the case of the latter. If following the expiry of the said timr periods, the right is not relinquished, then the siad right is nullified for the sake of law and the land falls to the State with the proviso that the rights of other parties which encumber the lands remain in existence.
(4) As long as one with Indonesian citizenship concurrently holds foreign citizenship, he/she cannot have land with the status of a hak milik, and to him/her the provision as meant in paragraph 3 of this article shall apply.
Article 22
I hope this helps gilbert
Hi gilbert
I/we have been told many times that "a wife of a foreigner cannot own land", by lawyers and notaries.
My Indonesian wife is understandably pissed-off by this (me, too). What are we supposed to do? Get "divorced", (maybe a one year project).
Whilst I can understand the "logic" behind it, (if I try hard enough), I think it's ridiculous.
WTF. One minute you're a normal Indonesian citizen, but marry a foreigner and suddenly you can't "legally" own land in your own country.
I used to wonder why many taxi drivers in Singapore would laugh hysterically when I told them I live in Indonesia. Now I know.
Does anybody like the latest Indonesian advertising campaigns on TV?
Two spring to mind. The total crap that Garuda Airways is sprouting and Jero Whacko's "Wonderful Indonesia". Oh, and there's a third one about how easy and straightforward it is to invest in this country.
I thought those kinds of drugs are illegal here, but what would I know.
And don't get me started about the "new Immigration laws".
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I guess there will always be people that think they know everything. Such as yourself