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Gary in Lombok

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Brief overview

A traveller in Lombok interviews an expat, then recounts a Jakarta police shakedown and meets a weaver.

  1. Lombok won him over after years of BaliGary discovered Lombok three years ago and now spends every winter there, having moved with his wife this year.
  2. Private hospitals decided the birth questionHe will have his first child in Indonesia, using a private hospital in Mataram he calls European quality at a fraction of Western cost.
  3. A bar meeting in Jakarta was a set-upThe host was taken to a dark apartment block, confronted by police after midnight and paid a couple of hundred dollars to make it go away.
Executive Summary AI
  • The host, whose channel is mainly about meeting locals, stops a visitor to ask why people are drawn to Lombok, Bali and the rest of Indonesia, and the man gives his name as Gary.
  • Gary says this is his third time in Lombok after years of visiting Bali, that he discovered Lombok three years ago and now spends every winter here, three or four months, and that this year he and his wife moved over to set up a small camp.
  • They are expecting their first child, a boy, now in the fourth month, and Gary has no worries about giving birth in Indonesia: the private hospitals in Mataram are European quality at a fraction of the cost of Europe or the USA.
  • Asked about staying long term, Gary says he got fed up with the Western way of thinking of more, more, more and prefers the Eastern calmness and value system, and both men agree that the urge to move is part of human nature, going back to the migration out of Africa 100,000 years ago.
  • The host then tells a cautionary story from an early trip: on Jalan Jaksa in Jakarta he left a bar with a young Indonesian woman called Indra, was taken twenty minutes away into dark lanes, and after midnight the police knocked, threatened him with jail, and let him go only after he handed over the couple of hundred dollars he had, before driving him back to his hotel on friendly terms.
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“third time i'm here”
— Gary
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“private hospitals do the fraction of the cost of anything in europe or in the usa”
— Gary
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“yes in my personal view i got fed up with the Western way of thinking of more, more, more.”
— Gary