In Reply to: "Local tourism regulation" posted by dower on Wednesday, 16. February 2005 at 13:08 Bali Time:
Strictly speaking this is correct.
All "visitors" are supposed to be reported to the police, even if my mother comes to stay at my house here in Bali, technically I should take a copy of her passport and do a report with the police.
I have stayed in a number of small hotels and at people's house's all over Indonesia, and had to go along to the police with my passport.
It often takes more than 30 minutes because there are some official forms that need to be typed up and they never have copies of the official forms, they never have a photocopier so the copy of your passport can take an hour or two, and someone has to type the forms, which is painful to watch.
As far as I can determine there is no set charge, I usually give the cop that does the typing Rp10,000 (to pay for lessons) but here in Bali everything is more expensive.
I don't think this is done by hotels here in Bali because of the sheer volume of people and because everyone has become pretty blase about it all.
I am not at all surprised to hear that the Bounty is taking copies of passports, or Rumah Manis, Barong or any of the other places owned by that group.
If they'd been doing it in October 2 years ago it would have made things a lot easier. Sounds like a smart move on the part of management.
Cheers, FB