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[Jaime C]

It’s always better to buy in the destination country if shipping is involved. Freight charges and dealing with customs always has a lot of nonsense involved.

 

[pantaiema]

It’s always better to buy in the destination country if shipping is involved. Freight charges and dealing with customs always has a lot of nonsense involved.

This is also my conclusion, especially given the recent changes in Indonesian Customs and the experiences some have had with it. A good recent example is the items you can bring back to Indonesia through Soekarno Hatta Airport. They reverted this policy just a few months after its implementation due to traveller protests. The staff who enforced this policy without thorough consideration faced no consequences. With this experience and lack of repercussions, there is no deterrent for them to try new policies as often as they want. this is the original thread for this discussion.

New customs regulation, only 5kg of processed food allowed per person?

Oh, I thought these travelers were checked at the airport ... The first one about the shoes was a package. Most the Bea Cukai cost was a penalty/fine for lying on the customs form about the value of the contents. I do wonder whether the shipper or the recipient provided that number, I have...

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However, a foreign bank card would certainly not qualify for this, as there's no comparable substitute for it in Indonesia.