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Illegal in sth east asia ? as long as its not something like drugs (which will find you on the wrong end of a rope or gun barrel) a small bribe will prbably sort it out the cops will let you off if you buy them lunch or give about $10 in local currency just handed over with drivers licence or ID gets a response like well sir what your doing is not correct but we can let you go with a warning this time. Brett I have worked in Indo a few times the Indonesians are friendly people and I wouldnt worry about them too much a couple of them asked me what I thought of the gulf war which was in full swing at the time when I told them I thought we were wrong to go there and was not really interested in it they were OK I told them hey guys I am just a mechanic here to fix your gears so you can make cement and I am not a soldier and had no desire to fight anyone they laughed.
The guys I worked with were mostly muslems and would not buy beer to drink but said if I offered them one it was OK for them to have one or 2 so as not to be insulting to there host ,just that they should not get drunk.
I took a dozen longnecks to a company celebration(the contractor killed a couple of goats and cut them up and gave all his men a bag of assorted pieces of goat as a reward for finishing the project without any major accidents) when I produced the beers in a box of Ice the guys asked whos beer are they I said anyone can have one thinking they would be shy of it cause they were muslems -next thing I thought I was holding the ball in a rugby game there was 20 guys trying to jump over each other for a free beer I had to wrestle 1 out for my self.
If you go to Indo just hang at small local hotels and resraunts don't go to big tourist areas youll be cool. I even travelled alone for a few hundred KM on a train and was in the economy section with no seat due to all saets being sold out the locals were very helpfull and friendly.