PerfectMachine said:

Craig Robson said:that persons statement wasnt a positive reaction to the lack of law enforcement. more of a summing up of ALL the issues that stem from the country.

we complain a LOT about people ripping other people off and when 80% of those doing the stealing happen to be from indonesia (so much so that an outright ban was considered) then everyone begins to wonder why.

to hear it reported that there is a total lack of law enforcement in the country sort of hammers home why it seems acceptable for some people to act with such a lack of conscience, why it seems possible for prostitute villages to exist and why it normalized behavior such as what we see above.

I'm not really entrenched on the whole ripping people off thing here - I actually avoided it simply because it feels like negative energy when hearing bad about my country.

I know that there were (are?) a lot of shirt ripoffs from Indonesian accounts - it would interest me as to how many unique individuals from Indonesia that were/are doing this. Like, 1 person on 20 different accounts as opposed to 20 different people (numbers are higher than that I'm aware, just using that number as an example).

It would totally suck if an entire population of 200 million plus has been stereotyped because of a small group (albeit criminal). Racism sucks, it will NEVER disappear; but if every country is generalized for the criminals that exist in said countries - every country would be chastised - ironically, racism would cease to exist because the prejudice would be in fact everywhere and even spread. What I'm trying to say to those that dislike; dislike equally?

Oh, and I don't know anything about their legal system, but I do know that porn is illegal there and a popular Indonesian musician is actually in jail because a sex tape that leaked. I also know about Schappelle Corby - who is serving a 10 plus sentence for importing marijuana.

And there was a group of criminals called the "Bali 9" that have faced possible death sentences for smuggling heroin in to Indonesia. So a legal system exists. I can't possibly defend their legal system, It's probably fundamentally flawed, but it actually exists.