Best usages and practices in Indonesia

Hello everyone,

Living in Indonesia means learning new ways of doing things and incorporating to your daily life unique practices.

We invite you to share unique practices, tools or methods that could also make a difference in other countries.
Here are a few examples of the best practices found throughout the world. In France, a health chipcard makes medical procedures easier and faster. In Japan's train stations people queue patiently and orderly. In most parts of North America drivers can turn right at a cross road, even if the traffic light is red. And many countries manage their waste with sorting techniques and colored bins.

What about you? have you found innovative and useful practices or services that make daily life simpler in Indonesia?

Thank you for your contribution.

Priscilla

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Hello Fred. It is not really a local usage or best practice. What do Indonesian people do well and could be exported abroad?

Bio ID cards are a great idea.

The system has problems over here but that's not much to do with the cards and a lot to do with suspected corruption, but the idea is amazingly handy.

Loans and access to pretty much anywhere is easy and crime is hard to get away with because fingerprints and iris scans are on the police computers.

Usually when you are in Country A and insert a simcard of Country B into your cellphone (handphone) you receive an sms (text message) from Country B telling you how to retrieve your voicemail, sms's, activate roaming, etc. in Country A.

Indonesia is the only country I know of so far, that sends an sms with a "Hotline number" to the Indonesian Embassy in Country A, "incase you need assistance".

I considered that very unique and helpful, for Indonesians traveling abroad.

Having a negative day with Indonesia, so the answer is not much.
Maybe just accepting what they have and not worrying about things is the best example I can come up with. People here are really tough. No shrinks or doctors or help or government assistance. Indonesians just get on with life and deal with what they have not what they haven't.

Tidak apa apa.

It translates to "No what what" but really means, It doesn't matter or, it's ok.
This laid back attitude has a downside but its great upside is a stress free life.