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ibasiram · Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 107

Hi there,
A little while ago, I posted here saying that Irish people can't get work visas for Indonesia, and a few other posters agreed with me. However, I have just heard from a school there, that it IS possible for Irish people to get a work visa.
What an amazing turn around.
What do you think of that? Are there any Irish people working in Indonesia? Any at all? Could you confirm this?

cheers,
I Wink

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

I think this is a matter of the school knowing the right people to bribe...

In my year there, I only met two people from Ireland. One was a fellow teacher (who came to Jakarta with a British passport). The other was an engineer working for an NGO up in northern Sulawesi.

guruengerish · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 424 Location: Australia

Well, I don't know about working permits, but during the 'troubles' when the TNI were being encouraged to move out of East Timor, admitting to being Australian was not politically correct.

So for the duration, I told the usual dozen or so a day who wanted to know where I came from, that I was 'orang Irlandia'. As most of them had no idea where or what that country was, they just let the matter drop. There's nothing like a drop of Liffy water to get the blarny going.

Others became 'orang Polandia', for much the same reason.

BTW have you ever noticed that if you start firing questions instead of the reverse, you get some very funny looks?

Winmarr · Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 115 Location: Melbourne

Haha I'll have to try that one day!

kid eh · Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 18 Location: Prague

any updates on this Irish question?

wannaBguru · Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 110

ISO 650 has it right. To be an english teacher, u must be from england, usa, canada, aus, or nz. the irish are excluded because their official language is not english but gaelic. however, if they hold a british/uk passport, they will be accepted as a native speaker. this may depend if they are from northern or southern ireland. interestingly, america does not have an official language. of course the school can always bribe people.... eec has a teacher from belguim and other ef schools have been know to employ a wide variety of non-native speakers, some of them as DOS.

non-english teaching jobs, such as engineer, can be from any country..... they just need to be classified as an expert in their field.

gugelhupf · Joined: 24 Jan 2004 Posts: 575 Location: Jabotabek

No probs getting visas for Irish nationals in regular schools (not private language schools) so long as they are western qualified teachers or have higher degrees in education and can be classed as 'experts'. The 'five nations' bit applies specifically to people employed as English teachers.