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Text your say: RI's quest for visa-free status in Schengen
Visa diplomacy: Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi speaks to the media on the Indonesian foreign policy review and outlook at her office on Jan
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Visa diplomacy: Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi speaks to the media on the Indonesian foreign policy review and outlook at her office on Jan. 8, 2015. The ministry is now lobbying European countries for visa-free access for Indonesians traveling to the Schengen zone.(JP/DON) (JP/DON)
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span class="inline inline-center">Visa diplomacy: Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi speaks to the media on the Indonesian foreign policy review and outlook at her office on Jan. 8, 2015. The ministry is now lobbying European countries for visa-free access for Indonesians traveling to the Schengen zone.(JP/DON)
Your comments on Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi saying that support is growing for Indonesia's request for visa-free access to the Schengen zone, which will enable Indonesian nationals to enter the zone's 22 EU-member and four non-EU-member states without visas.
It will be nice if Indonesia is granted visa-free access. It means Indonesia will start to do business with many well developed countries. I hope it can help Indonesia's currency to return back to normal.
Nurhendi
Bekasi, West Java
Great Idea. How can we get our agents past good border protection? I know ' visa free!
Joko
Europeans should exert control on immigrants from Indonesia to bar potential terrorists from entering. What else has Indonesia to offer? Only a few Indonesian tourists visit Europe and they can do it on a tourist visa. Skilled workers? Given the poor quality of education in this country, there is no hope that Indonesia will be able to export skilled workers in the foreseeable future.
Neither do Europeans want the dirty money that rich and corrupt Indonesians may seek to launder abroad. So, what would visa-free status be for?
Silvio Bari
RI is blacklisted for good reason ' its corruption, cronyism, death-penalty, terrorism, unstable government, weak leadership etc.
Retno, in following the instructions of the Great Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo, is jaw-droppingly asking Europe to grant visa-free access, so that Indonesians (including terrorists) can just waltz into Europe. Ain't gonna happen.
Bruce
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