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tanyakenapa · Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 180 Location: Batavia

Departure tax - international has gone up to 150,000 rupiah since 1st November 2007.

malu · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 1344 Location: Sunny Java

I'm willing to bet the level of service hasn't risen commensurately.

beefer · Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 238 Location: java

actually, the two are not connected. 85% of the airport tax you pay goes towards offsetting the cost of fuel stores the airport is required to keep on hand at all times, the remaining 15% goes towards facitity upkeep and monitoring. the employees that offer their famous "just smile and nod to everything you ask" service are actually paid through the fees airlines pay to dock their planes at the airport. more planes=more people= more revenue and therefore more staff required. i know this because my neighbor is some self professed "big wheel" at the airport. he gave me a card of his once and told me that if a showed it to the counter people i wouldn't have to pay the tax.... so far i am 0 for 3 on attempts, although one lady was nice enough to laugh before regecting my request to wave the fee. i believe the conversation went something like this.....

girl: ..and 100,000 for the tax please.
beef: oh, i was told if i showed you this card that the fee would be waved
girl studies card...even the back that has no writing on it(?)... then gives it back.
girl: that is not you
beef: i know its not me but the man who....
girl: what man?
beef: the man on the card told me that....
girl: is he with you?
beef: no, he is my friend and he said that if...
girl: do you know his seat number?
beef: no, he.....
girl: let me look for you, this will just take a second, sir.
beef: you know, how about i just give this 100,000 to you and then you can stop pretending to type on your computer....

treacle · Joined: 18 Jun 2007 Posts: 36 Location: the hills

nice try

basiltherat · Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 952

Just curious. Does anyone in Indonesia actually believe most of the dosh collected from passengers' departure tax actually goes to the government coffers ... and stays there ?? Surely nothing's changed, has it ??
best
basil

malu · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 1344 Location: Sunny Java

There was that little scandal last year of Adam Air check-in staff pocketing millions in tax money every week at CGK, and I doubt they are the only ones to have done it.

Beefer - that happens so often! Some self-professed brass hat with an inflated sense of his own importance deluding himself that his name carries some 'backing' in the world outside his office.

TEAM_PAPUA · Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 1679 Location: HOLE

philbags · Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 149 Location: 1962-69

Is singapore considered international? I did a visa run two days ago and paid 100,000 like always.
P.
Oh, and could somebody tell me what a 'troll' is in the context of these threads? Ta,
P.B.

Llamalicious · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:36 am Post subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll

HTH

jaksamania · Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject:

please be specific. for jakarta is still 100.000rp. just came back for visa stuff in spore. extra 50.000rp would be fine for the sexy lady in adamair counter !!!

malu · Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 1344 Location: Sunny Java

If flying Adam Air use that extra 50ribu to buy some life insurance that will benefit your bereaved relatives, and forget the pretty siren on the counter.

That is one flying circus you wouldn't get me on board so long as I had at least one arm free.