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Re: Batam Info / Interest / Help Thread

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Originally Posted by Hurricane88 View Post
exactly...70k rupiah and have about 7gb of data...why bother to register...was told Telkomsel pre-reg to sell...
Situation for Batam is like that some months ago. Initially when i 1st started Batam,there is no need for registration for sim card (buy ,insert and use), but recently government wants all sim card registered before use. So end up when i step into,i cant buy some brands of sim card and be ready to be use immediately. (after new law, it becomes buy,insert but cannot use until registered)

So now, with these sim card vendor having pre-registered sim card and selling a little higher than normal price to tourist, tourist need not register the sim card they buy anymore. The government new law becomes a little redundant now.

This still doesnt apply to all brands of sim card as yet tho,meaning NOT all brands of sim card were being pre-registered by vendor.

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Originally Posted by Hurricane88 View Post
in the past, I will not stop if Police stop me unless is a road block...those days many rented the Police uniform and trying to setup to con money...they will anyhow plant fake evidence...also make sure I dun speed...all my friends told me dun stop and just drive on...I will go down to open booth and closed myself at road block...usually suspicious if the Police request to open booth...
Actually it is really difficult not to speed when driving from Singapore to KL,hehehe...i dont drive there tho but i did rent the service of a Malaysian driver to drive a small group of us to KL many years ago. And he was driving at about 140km to 150km per hour (sometime even above/around 160km/hour),hehehe...

Yes,its a good habit to open and close the car booth personally.

But in Batam,cant possibly to check every wechat girl's bag when we engage their service,right? Which is why i would say wechat girls would be good for short time, but long time can be a bit risky. And especially so when Hari Raya season is close by.

*so far the girls who ask to go to discotheque,quite a big handful of them were drug-user (told to me by taxi drivers i met in Batam).

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Rupiah gaining ground rapidly.
Singapore dollar weaken rapidly against rupiah in about 1 week plus,hehehe...
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