Jan. 9, p. 3
Yeah, anger the expatriates, company bosses and cause more trouble and make it more trouble to do business here. That’s the smart Indonesian way. The economy is going nowhere and Indonesia’s doing its best to make more trouble and rules. Corruption rules!
KEVIN C
Dear Kevin, your comment is crazy. If you want to work and earn money in a foreign country, you need to have the legal documents. That is the case in all countries all over the world. It is true Indonesia is a very corrupt country but they are improving. If you have good intentions to work here, just get all the documents. That’s easy!
VOLKER
If following the law and doing the right thing is a hassle for foreign companies and expatriates doing business and living in Indonesia, then they need to reassess why they are here and doing what they do.
All countries have strict immigration and working requirements. Why should Indonesia be any different? Australia, for example, processes illegal immigrants and workers through detention facilities and then deports them once a determination on their illegal presence is made.
The level of bureaucracy and the number of different places to report and register lends itself to abuses and corruption, but this is a separate and distinct issue from the legitimacy in terms of the need for the rules. When it is all said and done, this is the system and as foreigners/expatriates it is the system with which we have to comply: Get used to it and deal with it.
ROB BAITON
You should follow all the rules of the country where you want to work. If not, you better leave the country. That’s fair. You have your own rules in your country, as do we here. That’s the way to respect others and it’s a good government improvement.
HEMAG
New school hours
Jan. 6, p. 2
Why don’t they do the feasibility studies before they implement the plan? That shows how professional these people are. It is like trial and error to them and the students are the guinea pigs.
VINIE
Why not try to get schools to manage school buses or collective transportation?
TASYA COOL
Jakarta and Indonesia could benefit greatly by a massive stimulus/overhaul of the transportation system. Using the construction of the Interstate Highway System in the US as a model, the Indonesian economy could step up to the next level by allowing transportation to drive transactions. Imagine being able to drive from Jakarta to Surabaya and back without stopping at one light!
MORGAN
I am a teacher too. I think the hours don’t matter because it will improve the students’ discipline. The problem now is with our transportation.
UTSMAN
It sounds like the cure is worse than the disease. The traffic in Jakarta is bad. But does forcing kids to go to school earlier, and potentially burdening business with the additional costs with mandating working hours, really make things better?
Until you have clean efficient public transit as an alternative, you will not get people out of their cars. We have new busways with no buses. We have a rail system that is underutilized and trains that are in such bad repair that people would rather sit in traffic in their car for two hours than be packed like cattle for a 30-minute train ride. Until you give people a good reason to change they won’t.
CALLUM
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