More on the new RI visa policy<\/p>\n
To revoke or to apply the new tourist visa policy? What I want
\nto impress upon all these visa policymakers holding the highest
\nimmigration and governmental positions who believe that they have
\nbeen discriminated against on false grounds by the United States'
\nand Australia's policies is this. The people who suffer the most
\ndiscrimination and harassment are the foreigners married to an
\nIndonesian citizen trying to make a living in Indonesia.<\/p>\n
If you want to apply the same tourist visa policy to us, be
\nlogical, once and for all, and apply the same kind of other
\nimmigration policies that Belgium -- and certainly many other
\ndeveloped countries -- apply to the foreigners married to a their
\ncitizens (regardless of gender). These people are all allowed to
\nwork in the open in any place without a work permit.<\/p>\n
These foreigners are given, at village level, a 5-year stay
\npermit within three months for 15 euros (about Rp 130,000) and
\nthey don't have to leave the country to renew a visa. They can
\nthen choose to become a Belgian citizen after three years of
\nresidence in Belgium.<\/p>\n
These foreigners in Belgium -- and certainly in the U.S. and
\nin Australia -- are treated with much more fairness, with far
\nless expense than the situation in Indonesia.<\/p>\n
And please keep in mind that, by asking all tourists to pay
\nUS$45 to enter your country for only 30 days, you will definitely
\naffect your own tourism industry. It is just irrational, because
\nif a lot of Belgians visit Indonesia as tourists, not all of them
\nare short-stay rich people, most of them would have been long-
\nstay backpackers.<\/p>\n
Also, not many Indonesians visit Europe as tourists except the
\nones visiting their relatives married to a Belgian citizen (and
\nwe -- the Belgian relatives -- pay most often everything for them
\nwho cannot afford).<\/p>\n
YVAN MAGAIN, Tubize, Belgium<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/more-on-the-new-ri-visa-policy-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }