Passport problem
Wednesday, 16 April 2008Jakarta, Indonesia
I am now sitting in Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta waiting for a flight to Manila. The flight was supposed to depart at 00:50, but is delayed until 03:50. Earlier this evening I flew from Balikpapan to Jakarta.
Time is killed by playing internet poker.
I had a really bad experience in the passport control. I had previously taken some old visa stickers out of my passport to save pages, and this made the immigration officers mad. They harassed me, and they said they would blacklist me from ever entering Indonesia again… I am scared. After a long while they finally stamped my passport.
Monday, 19 July 2010 at 22:35
I’m surprised they stamped your passport and let you go ( I assume they didn’t blacklist you). Count yourself lucky! If I would do the same in Norway or any other country, I’m pretty sure I’d be in deep sh*t. A passport is an official document owned by the issuing country’s government. Technically speaking, it’s not even yours to begin with! Only authorized officials (e.g. your embassy, immig. officials at airports, etc) are allowed to do anything with it! You’re certainly not allowed to take out some old visa stickers to save pages! Sorry to say this, but if I were that Indonesian immig. official dealing with you, I would certainly have blacklisted you!
And please cut out this “They harassed me”, what is this white man arrogance?? So, if a brown immig. officer does this to a white man, it’s “They harassed me”?? And if it were a brown man dealing with a white immig. officer somewhere in Europe, it’s most certainly the fault of the brownie coz he did illegal things with his passport??!
You’d better learn some respect while in other people’s country man! otherwise just f*ck off back to your superior white ass land!!
Tuesday, 20 July 2010 at 08:46
I certainly don’t give a fuck whether their color is yellow, green, red, or blue.