Indonesia considering banning all Alcohol

[medhead]

Many ways around laws. Importing duty free booze is not production. If you don't give the imported booze to someone it's not distribution. Just need to make sure you don't consume your personal duty free. Neopagan, Wiccan and Shinto religions all use booze for rituals or for purification purposes, I'm sure those would all fit under religious exemptions.
*nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, say no more

 

[Hvr]

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The food makes me sick. It really does make me sick. Ginger, curry, garlic, basil etc. I don't need to have that with every meal 3-4 times/day.

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Well I guess you've given it enough thyme so no sage advice here.

I quite enjoy the street food but only once a day.The hotel breakfast does me for the first two meals of the day.

 

[whatmeworry]

Probably great news for the Thai tourist industry....

BKK could be a good stopover for a return to FRA/BER...

Many ways around laws. Importing duty free booze is not production. If you don't give the imported booze to someone it's not distribution. Just need to make sure you don't consume your personal duty free. Neopagan, Wiccan and Shinto religions all use booze for rituals or for purification purposes, I'm sure those would all fit under religious exemptions.
*nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more, say no more

During the prohibition of alcohol in the US, making wine for religious purposes was protected. IIRC it helped the fledging wineries like those in Napa valley.

Also there are more Christians in Indonesia then the total population of Australia.

 

[Archphoto]

Any chance it could go the way of the UAE - alcohol ok in hotels but banned elsewhere?

Note well - I've never been there, so not idea how that works, only heard a few comments from friends about the restrictions there, so I most probably haven't actually got the details right.:mrgreen:

 

[yohy?!]

lol like in the middle east?

 

[Pushka]

The only time alcohol is an issue in Dubai for instance is during Ramadan.

 

[Archphoto]

lol like in the middle east?

Haha - my geography s***s!!! Changed the original post to state the "UAE" instead.

Having said that though, this Middle East Map / Map of the Middle East - Facts, Geography, History of the Middle East - Worldatlas.com entry does include the UAE etc in with the "Middle East" classification, so I'm now totally confused!!

 

[UP4014]

I enjoy a drink as much as the next person but I'm not sure that banning alcohol would be a reason not to visit any country I would otherwise want to visit.

A stronger man than myself going to climate such as this and not needed a cold ale.

 

[drron]

Well I am taking a different view.If there was an alcohol ban meaning no bogans in Bali hence hotel prices drop I would be very tempted to go back to somewhere like Ubud.Lovely place just pity about all the drunken Aussies even up there.

 

[Pushka]

Well I am taking a different view.If there was an alcohol ban meaning no bogans in Bali hence hotel prices drop I would be very tempted to go back to somewhere like Ubud.Lovely place just pity about all the drunken Aussies even up there.

Agree re that. RSA would be an excellent thing. We stay at Jimbaran Bay. Way too quiet and peaceful there, no big Pub style restaurants and cheap pubs and no hawkers so no bogans.

 

[Boca68]

Perhaps it may result in similiar laws to Malaysia?

In Kelantan state, alcohol is banned. But my visit to Kota Bharu quite some years ago now, found alcohol was not that hard to purchase. Cheap Orangutan Whiskey, I think it was called. Tasted like caramel liquer, shocking headache the next day. Ufff!

 

[TomVexille]

Have travelled extensively through Southern India where there is no alcohol but Bali is not this kind of place.

Never had much trouble getting beer or spirits in Kerala. Don't know about the other states though.

 

[trippin_the_rift]

Smells like a shakedown of the alcohol industry in Indonesia. Scare them into thinking sales will dry up and a few politicians will get a new house this year.

 

[dajop]

Smells like a shakedown of the alcohol industry in Indonesia. Scare them into thinking sales will dry up and a few politicians will get a new house this year.

And if the law does pass, they'll miss out on their new house, but local politicians and those involved in law enforcement on the ground will be sitting on a gold mine ....

 

[Pushka]

Never had much trouble getting beer or spirits in Kerala. Don't know about the other states though.

We were in a Hotel in Thiruvananthapuram. No alcohol in the restaurant. There was a family function in the conference room we could look down on while eating. So many paper bags were seen being carried in surreptitiously by the locals. . Thankfully just one night and next day to The Maldives.

 

[RB]

We were in a Hotel in Thiruvananthapuram. No alcohol in the restaurant. There was a family function in the conference room we could look down on while eating. So many paper bags were seen being carried in surreptitiously by the locals. . Thankfully just one night and next day to The Maldives.

We had a similar experience to TomVexille during our travels though Sthn India-the enforcement of "dry days" was very lax. Interestingly some areas had bans on Coke & these bans were much more stringent-apparently linked to the huge water useage of the coke factories