American woman who ‘unsettled the public’ with Twitter thread will be deported
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But, reading the article, she had a "visitor visa" and she's suspected of making profit by "selling her e-book and putting up consultation fees on traveling".
“The concerned foreign national is suspected to have done business by selling her e-book and putting up consultation fees on traveling to Bali, which means she can be subject to sanctions according to the 2011 Immigration Law,” the statement also said, explaining that those actions mean Gray has violated the purpose of her stay permit.
She did shady stuff like visa runs and not taxing locally earned income. There is reason to kick her out.
Indonesia is a muslim country.
Visa runs aren't shady. Been doing them for ~5 years in a row in exactly that region. The reason why visa runs are even a thing is countries rely on that. It's a built-in feature of their immigration system.
[1]: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-large...
Well, at least they're honest.
That said the main reasons for the deportation (from Indonesia) are again not what the title suggests. This person only had a tourism visa, and the "unsettling the public" part also includes the argument that her posts on Twitter suggested it's fine to travel to Indonesia during the pandemic. So technically the title isn't a lie as the viral tweet was the reason she got attention by the authorities, but it's obviously phrased with a very different implication.
When I want a visa to most countries (especially western countries) I have to present bank statements, proof of employment, flights in and out etc. but a random bum from <insert_country_that_gets_visa_on_arrival_to_destination_x> can come in without any such checks. I get particularly angry at stories where travellers run out of money half way through their journey and start selling things like photographs or busking to make money.
I'm jealous of but never angry at people for the ability to do multi-destination journeys without the phenomenal logistical planning ahead involved in getting visas for all those destinations - please don't take that privilege for granted. (TL;DR - i can never do the "let's just fly to x and see where we go from there" on a whim)
I understand your anger. I'd be furious too :(
> please don't take that privilege for granted.
I will always take that for granted. It is literally my only "god given" right to move wherever I want and live there (provided I can sustain myself)[1]. The idea that a country has the right to restrict my movement based on an arbitrary border, by issuing a paper defining where I may travel and for how long (based on my skin color) is absurd and something worth going to war for both metaphorically and literally.
[1] technology plays a big part here in the crimes that countries commit against individuals (refugees and otherwise), and I've witnessed an gradual increase of restrictions, over the past 20 or so years especially in Western countries including my home country. Compared to 20 years ago we now already live in a dystopia of restriction, it just is distributed unevenly.