In Reply to: How 2 Bring Balinese Boyfriend 2 Aust posted by m_i_a on Saturday, 21. April 2007 at 20:01 Bali Time:
remember that you are planning to take him away from his lifestyle and his culture. Whilst he is probably a lovely, happy guy in his own environment he may actually hate being in Australia. His English may be of a passable standard to say sweet things to you but when it comes to discussing football and cars with the guys down the road it can become very hard for him. There may be other Indonesian people living in the area but he may not necessarily like them or fit in with them.
I did the reverse when I first moved to Sulawesi, there were no other English speakers in the area and it can become a very lonely life, even though you are surrounded by lots of well meaning people.
Please keep this in mind when you finally get him to Australia. Meanwhile I wish you the best of luck and I hope that it is succesful for the two of you.
Cheers.