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Originally Posted by jspill
So hand over 400k rupiah not $400 lol
he realised that since i had my belongings on me, since i don't look poor, since i travel frequently, since i had a plane to catch, i could be extorted for a lot of money.
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Fake / corrupt police essentially the same thing, they're not doing police work. Police in Indo have nothing to do with foreigners for the most part, immigration does.
of course they're not doing police work. they're looking to extort people. that's what corrupt cops do all over south-east asia.
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They wouldn't have taken you to the station that's always just an empty threat, too much paperwork for them to bother, they'd rather scam the next guy.
i wasn't planning to jump on the back of a motorbike or getting in a car with these maniacs at 5am in the morning. they might take all my stuff and leave me for dead.
at 5am in the morning, they weren't going to get a better mark than someone with money and headed to the airport.
i was negotiating for about 15 minutes going back and forth, repeatedly pleading i didn't have anything close to 10 million rupiah on me (i had much more in actual fact), showing a little bit of money. it wasn't going far and the guy was becoming increasingly belligerent. i got out of the taxi at one point because i felt safer being in the open rather than in a position where a couple people could jump into the back of the cab with me. at one point when i was out of the car, he was trying to pay the cab driver to leave so that i would be stranded and completely at their mercy.
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And they wouldn't have 'ended up in a canal' either as you posted.
that's not a chance i want to take. if these guys are so brazen they'll extort someone for 10 million rupiah i wouldn't put anything past them.
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And leave earlier if you have a plane to catch, aim for 2hrs before the plane leaves then you have a spare hour if something like that goes wrong.
really helpful advice.