Is Indonesia a good country to try for digital nomads?

Is Indonesia based for digital nomads and general life quality as opposed to Thailand? Where to stay? I am looking for a modern place with good infrastructure and good food. Jakarta or Bali? I don't wanna put up with Thailand's requirements. Indonesia doesn't require quarantine

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  1. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    Its cheap af, i hungout in bekasi, but there has been an increase in african immigration and students in jakarta

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      Absolutely fricking disgusting idea to fly al the way to Indonesia to be surrounded by Black folk...

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        i left anyways mainly because it was too warm and crowded, it was funny seeing indonesian women walking around with a blasian kid, when the father obviously left lmao

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          Surprised to hear that. Wouldn't having a child out of wedlock be the end of their social lives in that culture?

          Why? Because you can have alcohol?

          Try to get a drink in India.

          so which is it then, do muslims destroy freedom or do they drink booze and kick it? moron.

          Accepting a law, promoting a law, and secretly breaking it on a regular basis isn't what you'd call free in any political or cultural sense. At some point they should feel a sense of contradiction, maybe a desire to act differently or to change the law, but they don't.

          • 3 years ago
            Anonymous

            >Try to get a drink in India.
            how come? alcohol is easily available in most places in india

            • 3 years ago
              Anonymous

              It’s not cheap

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                Only if you buy imported booze. The local stuff is cheap.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      where did you stay in Bekasi ? i spent a few months there last year, cheap place, nice food everywhere. I hungout mostly in Bekasi Timur

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        I had a Batak gf in bekasi but she unironically left me for some black guy

  2. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    > there has been an increase in african immigration and students in jakarta

    Umm...okay. What has that got to do with anything?

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      just thought i'd give you a heads up just incase youd get shocked when you get there

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        Oh, okay m8.

  3. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    I went to Jakarta for a few days in 2018. While I normally enjoy concrete jungles, Jakarta was probably one of the most abjectly boring cities I've visited. If you ask the locals what there's to do for fun, they'll almost always stare blankly, think for a few minutes, and then begin rattling off the names of different shopping malls.

    Jakarta, in a nutshell, is an extremely boring, hot, humid, and crowded city. I say that as someone who loves places like Delhi and Mumbai and Bogota; but those cities at least have history and culture and nightlife, whereas Jakarta's comparably bland by most any measure.

  4. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    I recommend Canggu. fast internet, coffee, surf, cheap fewd and cool bars..

  5. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    indonesia is a pretty boring country in general apart from a few resort islands. also there are too many fricking muslims everywhere
    malaysia would be a better bet. it has many of the same problems that indonesia has (e.g. pollution and traffic in cities, massive corruption) but on the whole life is a bit better there- there are still loads of muslims, but they are offset by the sizeable chinese population (and smaller hindu population)

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      Thats good I'm Muslim so it works well for food

  6. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    Indonesia feels like the next great travel place, it's cheap up and coming and so much diversity the only issue is the extremist Muslims.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      >extremist Muslims.
      99% of Muslims are extremist. It’s an extreme religion.

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        What an orange-pilled thing to say.

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          Its true, if someone is going to blow themselves up for a religion, its gonna be a Muslim.

          • 3 years ago
            Anonymous

            I didn't say it was false, I said it was orange-pilled. Make of that what you will.

          • 3 years ago
            Anonymous

            Muslim Malays/Indonesians, though not exactly that tolerant are by far the most moderate Muslims in the world. They are a lot more relaxed than Arabs and actually show genuine respect for their pre-Islamic past. It's completely normal for Muslims parents to give old Hindu names to their kids for example and Hindu scripture, considered as a mythology of course, is rather popular as Greek or Roman myths are in the West. f course i readily admit you won't find the kind of freedom you can have in other SEA countries.

            • 3 years ago
              Anonymous

              wow so moderate!

              48% of 267 million people believe in stoning to death as punishment for adultery.

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                https://i.imgur.com/iF4pm5w.png

                again so tolerant.

                For these two 72% of Indonesians think Sharia should be the law of the land.

                that's 192 240 000 people.

                That's 34 000 000 people that think death should be the punishment for leaving Islam. So moderate.

              • 3 years ago
                Anonymous

                certainly in malaysia they don't have the death penalty for apostasy, although there are a lot of people who would support it (it does exist as a statute, but is not implemented). but even so, for a malay leaving islam is a kind of "virtual death"- they are socially excluded, have their passport confiscated, are ordered to attend re-brainwashing sessions, and if all that still doesn't work they still have to have their case heard in a sharia court, and if that succeeds (many are refused) they effectively become a persona non grata. many leave the country.

            • 3 years ago
              Anonymous

              again so tolerant.

            • 3 years ago
              Anonymous

              >actually show genuine respect for their pre-Islamic past
              no they don't, they whitewash that period out of their history. they tolerate the orang asli tribes and their beliefs but they are always trying to convert them. try visiting the national museum in kl with a non muslim, they will tell you just how much of their history has been painted over by the muslims
              >Hindu scripture, considered as a mythology of course, is rather popular
              you might find a few malays who are curious about their hindu fellow malaysians, who are the poorest section of society and are routinely excluded from jobs and so on, but officially malays are deterred from reading about other religions in case it taints their poor muslim brains.
              of course it is permitted for muslims to proselytise to non muslims and put pressure on them to convert. the other way around is illegal. pic related, the back of a book i picked up in a buddhist temple somewhere in malaysia.
              religion and society are a curious mix in malaysia. interesting place. i spend a lot of time there.

  7. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's cheap but it's a third world Muslim country.
    There's a reason people only go to Bali, or: the one island that isn't Muslim

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why? Because you can have alcohol?

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        Muslims scary

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        no it's because muslims are pieces of shit who destroy any kind of freedom wherever they go
        also there are plenty of muslims around that area (malaysia, indonesia) who drink alcohol even if they are not supposed to. drugs too, the highest number of drugs cases in malaysia is in the malay muslim population (75% of cases compared to ~60% of population)

        • 3 years ago
          Anonymous

          so which is it then, do muslims destroy freedom or do they drink booze and kick it? moron.

          • 3 years ago
            Anonymous

            stupid comment. idiot.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      the worst part about muslims is the prayer call in the morning, or evening.

      it just fills the air with a sense of dread, and hopelessness.

      on another note, I found most Indonesians are quite pleasant people.

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        This might be colored by my experiences residing in Japan but Indonesians come off as very docile in my experience. There's quite a few at a university near me and they aren't as boisterous as the Viets or as outgoing as the Filipinos and Thais around here.

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        Sense of dread for helpless atheists

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's great if you use it to wake up at that time. Why wouldn't you?

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        >dread, and hopelessness
        Subhanallah, the adhan fills the kaffir's heart with fear

  8. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    >digital nomads

  9. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    Islamic shit hole

  10. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    I found a map of Indonesian religions and filled in some island names.
    Is Flores anything like the Philippines, culturally?

    Apologies for the small font, the original image is tiny. Try Ctrl =.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      I have made a less awful map, but the base of this one doesn't make any distinction between the syncretic and puritan strains of Islam in Indonesia.

    • 3 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why is that part on the right "probably not a good idea"?

      • 3 years ago
        Anonymous

        There's a low intensity civil war going on. The government has been importing hundreds of thousands of Muslim settlers over the past few decades and the native Papuans have tried fighting back for their survival.

  11. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    Bump. I travelled in SEA for ages, but Indonesia was always kind of a blind spot.

  12. 3 years ago
    Anonymous

    Theres no quarantine? How about visa?

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