1. Uncomparable living cost /Very very affordable!
2. Amazing lifestyle
3. Great quality of life (lots of great natural landscape)
4. Diverse Communities
5. Warm, open, kind people
6. Easy access of assets and visas/ flexible regulation (money talk)
7. Dollar to Rupiah Values is huge (Moneys Talk)
8. Everything is "cheap", cheap labor, cheap home etc which I don't like cuz they value ID ppl so low
9. Wide land to build cheap home (foreigner version)
This is the paradox of rich country like Indonesia and Africa.
In my view, Indonesia and Africa has lots of similarity. Both are very rich country! but the value of our currency and human resources are very cheap compare with the other country in the world. In fact the quality is great!
In fact we are big country with abundant natural resources and culture, you know what?! the largest gold mountain in the world is in Africa/Joburg and Indonesia/Papua.
But both only support USA(Papua's gold) and EUROPE(Africa's gold), Even Indonesia is the center of everything in ASIA. Without coal from Indonesia Singapore and Korea can light from the dark, without palm oil from Indonesia, several country in Asia can't afford cooking oil).
But what I found is despite those rich country, I only see local people only becomes security, housemaid, waitress, the one who should have the right and the impact of their abundance natural resources from their own country only becomes lower level worker in their own country, its not fair!!
I have hate and love relationship with my country, I love my people and this country so much but in other side I also hate those irresponsible people in power who only think about themselves and take advantages of others who don't have power to voice their suffering.
Indonesia always welcome the expat well, even give the red carpet for them, but Indonesia cannot protect their own people who works abroad well, i.e TKI/TKW who works in Arab, Hongkong, Malaysia, lots of them get tortured and abused and come back home stress, pregnant even died, but what's the follow up??
The can't value their own people well, who is going to respect our own people if it's not coming from our people first??!! Don't destroy your own people, you have to help them.
Just like first president of Indonesia, Soeakarno said, in the future your enemy is not foreigner but your own people, because of the jealousy and selfishness. Indonesian fight for their own siblings for the sake of money. it's fucking real and it's happened in my beloved country who makes me angry, sad, and dissapointed?!
Why Indonesian value foreigner more than our own people?!!
In INDONESIA itself, nowadays there's a lots of foreigner moving to Indonesia for good, for the sake of their own importance, as local I didn't see lots of significant change/impact they made to the local economic except less and less greeneries/rice paddy fields cuz more and more buildings for villas, club, bar, cafe, resto, noise polution from motorbikes and bar.
In my journey across East Indonesia, I see the very big contrast between the hype of prestigious tourism vs the life of local people who live nearby, like no impact at all?!!!
In fact, the hype of tourism should bring positive impact to local people surroundings.
OK let's say the tourist help to increase country devisa by paying visas to gov, but what's the direct impact to the society??? thus if there's corruptions happened in the upper level who have power to make policy, so society get nothing!
NOW YOU KNOW WHY? INDONESIA IS RICH, BUT THE SOCIETY STILL LIVE IN SUFFER, AND LOTS OF INDONESIAN WANTS LIVE ABROAD?!
even LPDP scholars even said they want to go home after Indonesia becomes better. Because as Indonesian we know by ourself how bad the situation in our country is.
For foreigner who choose Indonesia as your new home, it is your right to live and travel everywhere, but please make your presence matter?! give positive impact to local people even tho it is just a little, help and care for them, as simple as buying local product, learn Indonesian language, mingle with local, eat with local, your little care can bring happiness for them and their economic better.
in the world where people are free to travel and live everywhere they wants, travelers have responsibility to respect the real culture and traditions of the places they choose to live in, don't use your wealth to take advantages of other poeple. Use it for good. I'm amazed how local people can survive from so much intrusion from materialistic tourist and tone-deaf romantic. Education and respect are keys.
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