Posted by Patricia on August 23, 1997 at 12:17:18:
In Reply to: Marriage to Indonesian & expatriate residence posted by Larissa on August 23, 1997 at 07:38:19:
Hi,
do not exspect to get any preferable treatment from the immigration after you are married to an Indonesian citizen. For your stay permit (forget residency) you need the same qualification as any other foreigner. If you want to get a permit for longer than the 2-months toursist visa, you need a company to sponsor you. If you will do ANYTHING which might LOOK like working (even without any income) you need a working permit and another visa which is very difficult to get.
Also, if your husband is Indonesian your future children will be automatically Indonesian. In a way this is good -- in cases where the husband is foreign and the wife Indonesian the kids have (by Indonesian law) the nationality of the father i.e. they are foreigners. A baby born in Bali by an Indonesian mother with a foreign husband is treated as an illegal immigrant. It has to leave the country as soon as possible (you have to buy the basically illegal exit permit as the kid never entered the country through official channels) and come back with a tourist visa for the baby, and then immediatly apply for a longer stay permit. This is all very unpleasnt and EXPENSIVE!!!
If your husband is Indonesian all kids born in Indonesai are Indonesian and this does not apply. But be aware that you'll have no rights whatsoever if you should separate one day. They are your husband's kids. And you are the foreigner who has to go.
Good luck. I went through all this, the fight took 8 years, and I lost my kids and everything else.
Pat