Hey Banjo, how about Indonesia!

[siddhartha]

Dear Mr. Banjo,

How about all of the Aussie expats in Indonesia!

If you just type in "australian" "expat" "bali" , you get a whole lot of results, possibly hundreds or thousands of people.

I am absolutely sure that there are possibly dozens or even hundreds of Australian Disability Support Pensioners hanging out in Bali or surrounding islands. If you have never been to Bali, I can tell you it is a gem, swamped with Australians in the south, but full of enlightened expats in the rest of the island: a true gem of international travel.

Banjo, you must get on the internet and promote this site to Aussie expats in Indonesia!!!

[Banjo]

Yeah, there's plenty of Aussies throughout Indonesia, it's even cheaper to live than Thailand.
I suspect we have a lot of people check the board out without joining, checking the ISP addresses of the guests can be informative, sure a lot of them are spybots from places like Moscow but there's a few genuine ones.

[Banjo]

It's a bit of a mine field.
The law, the Social Security Act, says we can leave and return as often as we like as long as we check back in every thirteen weeks.
Centrelink claim they have the legal right to take away our Australian residency if we "spend too much time out of the country".
As non residents we lose our pensions.
The parameters regarding this seem to be solely at Centrelink's discretion.