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Indonesia was one of the best riding countries for us... unbeliveable scenery, people and the food too... dont miss it...
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Indonesia will also be the "Paradise on Earth", but if do not allow to my bike to go, I'm not going in there. The problem is that it is not easy, technically, skip it.
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Maybe what was said about Dumai meant that it can be problematic to enter the country from there. I've also heard warnings about it, but that was several years ago.
Indonesia is wonderful, well worth a visit, but getting the bike there can be a problem. With your hectic timing, I'd probably send to Australia from Kuala Lumpur.
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Indonesia is wonderful, well worth a visit, but getting the bike there can be a problem. With your hectic timing, I'd probably send to Australia from Kuala Lumpur.
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Yes, I will do so, it is too complicated to enter Indonesia, for both the bureaucratic and mostly for the "physical", I can not sign in with my bike in some ferries were born to people (I've seen photos of the experience of RTWbyBIKE. com). 
I am very determined in my travels, I can also deal with dirt so sure my bike was not born, but I also know the physical limits of it and not risk a fall overboard or an accident to exceed 10 steep steps with 10 Malaysian governing a bike half a ton, made almost entirely out of plastic and with a few strong holds. 
If a country is not quite "civil" to provide access to it even independent travelers with their own vehicle, the jump without regret. 
I saw that ship the bike from KL (Malaysia) to Australia is very simple,  even if I only see flights to Perth and Darwin (where I had planned to arrive).
It will mean that, from Perth, I will do more through 3000 km in Australia: better!
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Sorry this is off-topic, but there was a Finnish dude, Jari, who did a very long RTW-trip on a Goldwing1500 about 20 years ago. He had a bad accident, when trying to enter or leave Indonesia, because the ferry (or whatever boat he was using), capsized and sank. Happened close to Dumai actually. Many people drowned, and he almost died, too, he was in a very bad shape, but then luckily was taken into a hospital in time.
He was quite well off financially, so when he got better, he went to Singapore, and hired some professional sea rescue crew, that actually managed to locate the sunken Goldwing in the sea, and lift it up from there! There was a legendary picture on a newspaper here, when they were pulling the bike back up from the water.
The whole operation, including the massive rebuild, that the bike required after being in seawater for a long time surely cost him many times the price of a Goldwing, but he did it, and I think he finally continued the trip with that same bike (ok, maybe only the frame was old.... but talk about not giving up, eh  ?!?)
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Magnificent history. I understand: I do not ever abandon my Gold Wing: has been my faithful companion for 750,000 km.
When I had the accident in 2009 in Mongolia, and in Siberia in 2011, the first thought was for her.
And she ALWAYS brought home.
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Indonesia will also be the "Paradise on Earth", but if do not allow to my bike to go, I'm not going in there. The problem is that it is not easy, technically, skip it.
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Have you seen that the onion boat is going again from Malaysia to Indonesia? There is a thread here with contact details etc... So Xssing is easy again...
just to let you know>
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...onesia-32605-5
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I thank you, but I've excluding Indonesia from my programs, too complicated and too especially changing the situation: I do not trust (Indonesia).
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