Bali Expat Resources
Krakatoa Business Center - Seminyak Bali: New arrival’s one stop shop
New expats in Bali have to spend time shorting themselves out. Chores such as finding a place to live, getting transport, organizing a visa, getting your mail, recieving a FAX, looking for a job, etc, can take time and effort. Krakatoa Business Center is one place that helps new expats organize all these thnigs in one place.
Date: September 29th, 2006 |
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Selling the farm and moving to Bali!
‘Bali is cheap, a plate of nasi goreng costs 8,000rp, a guest house room is 50,000rp and you can rent a scooter for a month, for 400,000rp. I’m selling the farm and moving to Bali!’
Date: September 2nd, 2006 |
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Expat websites for living in Indonesia
Seems to me there are more people moving to Bali / Indonesia as expats. I don’t know about other people who live here, but I seem to be always running into people, who have ‘just moved to Bali a year ago’. With that in mind, I thought it might be useful to list some websites to help the other half of humanity, who still haven’t moved here.
Date: August 22nd, 2006 |
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Bali Nightlife: Check out BeatMag
Bali has a throbbing nightlife scene (I think that just about covers it), with lounge bars, nightlclubs, gay bars and everything else you can imagine. For newcomers and even people who live here, keeping up with all the the changes is difficult. One solution is BeatMag.
Date: August 12th, 2006 |
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CitiBank account in Denpasar Bali
Tuesday morning I went to CitiBank on Jl. Teuku Umar in Denpasar to open a checking account. Citibank is a business bank, that deals in large scale clients. What does that have to do with me?
Date: August 9th, 2006 |
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Baliblog article submission
This morning I was talking with the owner of Cafe Seminyak, and he told me he reads Baliblog. He said he likes the site, as we give opinion, not just try to sell stuff, unlike many of the other Bali sites.
Here’s your chance to offer an opinion.
Date: September 5th, 2006 |
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Singapore in the morning
Tommorrow at 6.30am I fly out to Singapore, to renew my Business visa. Last week I picked up paperwork at Arjuna Immigration in Kerobokan, for 2m rp. I’ll file this at the Indonesian Embassy in downtown Singapore and get back here the next day.
Date: August 28th, 2006 |
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Working in Bali
Many people dream of moving to Bali and finding a job. Legally and realistically its not hard. You can get hold of any type of visa you like simply by hiring an immigration consultant and the government does not come sniffing around individuals for tax purposes. The main problem for new arrivals is what do you do. I get emails from people on a regular basis who ask me, ‘do you know how I can make money?’, ‘what is your suggestion for me?’ My suggestion is that you figure out how to make money at home, then when you come to Bali you will know what direction to go in. The expat newspaper, The Bali Advertiser, carries ads offering jobs and requesting jobs. I see the same requests month after month.
Date: August 12th, 2006 |
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Starting my own charity in Bali
Marrying an Indonesian and living in Bali, may sometimes seem like starting my own charity, but recently I had a brainwave. What would it be like to actually start my own charity. Flicking through some of the photos I took last year, I saw one of a group of Balinese orphans, singing Christmas carols in Starbucks. Considering Balinese life is all about family, these kids are missing out.
Date: August 11th, 2006 |
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Air tickets in Bali
This morning I went down to Kuta to order a plane ticket to Singapore, to renew my Business Visa. I’ve had some ups and downs with airlines recently and wanted to get to the bottom of things. My ticket on Garuda (serviced by Malaysia Airlines) to London, was supposedly changeable, as far as the date. “You just call to change at least 24 hours before flight and no problem,” the travel agent told me. Six weeks later I tried that and almost lost the ticket! I was told my ticket was not transferable at all. Only by luck, and using some pressure tactics that I learned over the years, from my colleagues, I got the manager to write me a new ticket.
Date: August 8th, 2006 |
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