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[wailing_imam]

The point is that according to you, it takes an ESL teacher a great length of time to get into the situation where a rented house, a meal at a crap western chain and a holiday to a neighbouring country (the cheap and fairly dull one, not Singapore or Thailand) is a possibility. This is with all the qualifications and beavering away in the classroom for years.

Not really a fine reward is it?

A teacher friend of mine met a group of ESL teachers who worked in Jakarta on holiday on the Khao San Road, Bangkok. They were counting out their shekhels and complaining just how outrageously expensive Thailand was. Even after a couple of years teaching in Indonesia, the outside world is fairly inaccessible to most.

Of course, the idiotic FISKAL situation doesn't help either.

As I have said previously, Indonesia is a great place to visit and fine to work in for a short period, but man, you really don't want to get stuck there.

[TEAM_PAPUA]

Jakarta is a dump - I don't think it matters how much you earn. Once you leave your apartment, you're stuck in traffic all day and surrounded by filth.

There are much nicer places in Indonesia.