Gender bias

Gender bias

I am a white foreigner. I am married to an Indonesian. I am a
Moslem. We are expecting a baby. I am utilizing a social visit
visa so I can stay with my wife. I have purchased a home for my
wife and child. We have bought an Indonesian-made automobile, and
Indonesian-made furniture.

The balance of my entire cash reserves have been converted to
rupiah and are invested in Indonesian state banks. We can easily
live off the interest earnings from such investments, and we
purchase Indonesian goods to assist Indonesian workers. My former
country will pay me a pension in a few years that will give us
further income, and which will be used to educate our child.

It seems, therefore, that I am an asset to Indonesia, and I
wish to become an Indonesian citizen when legal time allows.

I am told that to remain here I must obtain a job or start a
company, even though there is no need for me to work. I am also
told that our new baby will not be classed as an Indonesian
citizen because I am a foreigner.

Where can I find the answers to the following questions?

Why should I obtain work and so take the job that may be
available to a willing Indonesian who needs the income? Why will
our baby not be Indonesian although conceived and born here?

How can one become a good Indonesian citizen, by choice, not
by birth, if one must leave here every few months to visit an
Indonesian embassy in another country to get a new visa? Why
should I have to pay airlines many hundreds of U.S. dollars
to travel for such a visa when the money could be spent here
assisting our own economy? Why doesn't the Indonesian government
want such a person?

If I were a female married to an Indonesian male, there would
be no such saga as I could automatically stay here.

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