Sweden has been granted VOA privelages by Indonesia. This means Swedish citizens can now jump on a plane and visit Indonesia instead of having to apply for tourist visa before coming. This move would seem logical and one might ask why Indonesia would impose barriers to 1st World country citizens who have valuable tourist dollars. Indonesia has a habit of cutting off it nose to spite its face, logic not carrying much weight.
During the Aceh conflict, GAM separatist leaders were living in Sweden, which angered Jakarta. Denying Swedish people VOA hurt Indonesia more than Sweden and now that, peace has been reached in Aceh it time to get back to business.
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