In Reply to: drinking! posted by heather on Wednesday, 11. August 1999 at 00:19 Bali Time:
As far as I know there is no drinking age rule in Indonesia. or At least still unclear. If you go to the country side you can even find the children at the age of 10's drink Ricewine (it contains more alcohol than the normal wine). But the police will arrest the people who got drunk and make destructive action.
The police is only interest to control the place that sell the alcohol or spirit beverage without licence. Drink alcohol is not the major problem in Indonesia though most of indonesian people can not afford for it.
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