Hi everyone,
I just joined this expat forum as a Canadian living in Germany, but I realized it might be a good way to ask an important question about Indonesian businesses.
My company, vesseltracker.com, has a website for tracking ships using small antennas. We want to expand our service in Indonesia and are looking for local partners to work with in the shipping indudstry.
However, I've heard that since Indonesia is a very Muslim country and it is now Ramadan, now a bad time to try to contact anyone there.
My questions:
- is this true - does the society completely shut down for Ramadan?
- if the society does shut down for Ramadan, what about the non-Muslim or foreign population? Do they still go to work, or are all the businesses closed or working different hours?
- what about the shipping industry? From our website, there still seems to be lots of shipping activity in ports in other Muslim countries.
Should I just wait until after Ramadan is over?
Thanks in advance for your help - all insider advice is greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
David