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Originally Posted by nono1973
Thank you for your reply,bro. Now your reply has left me with yet another question,if you do not mind sharing (if you knew).
If i were to travel from Harbour Bay ferry terminal to Tanjong Balai Karimun,do i need to pass thru its custom immigration to get my passport chop again?
I asked becos i hope to bypass the custom passport chopping procedure and am wondering if it will be against their law. I ask the question also becos i have read in the older Batam thread that someone actually get into Tanjong Pinang from Batam w/o going thru their custom immigration to have his passport chopped. (he took a speed boat there if i dont remember wrong)
My greatest fear when going to Indonesia,their custom immigration.Where they keep finding loopholes in their own country's law to try to put tourist in some kind of trouble so they can extort them. Not forgetting there wont be a Singapore Consulate in Tanjoing Pinang nor in Tanjong Balai Karimun to help me if the immigration officers of the mentioned places has 'other plans' for me,hehehe...
Note,i ask the above question for my knowledge reason/s,i have no intention to visit Tanjong Balai Karimun nor Tanjong Pinang anytime soon. I apologize if you (or anyone) feel i asked too much.
Thanks again and cheers!
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Good questions asked...
Batam to Balai
Although I have never experience it myself travelling from batam to balai before, but I guess anyone (sporean or indonesian) travelling from Batam Harbour Bay ferry terminal to Tanjong Balai Karimun ferry terminal should not need to pass thru the custom immigration to get passport chop.
Logically speaking travelling within the same country is not exiting from that country.
Also probably because Tanjung Balai may have two types of terminal, domestic and international ferry terminal. The domestic one serve ferry route to Batam, Tanjong Pinang and Tanjung Batu. While the international one serve ferry route to Singapore and Malaysia(pontian johor, puteri johor & klang selangor)
CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG
Batam Sekupang also has international ferry terminals serving spore while the domestic terminal which is some distance apart serve ferry from sumatra...
Singapore to Tanjung Batu
Singapore now has no direct ferry service to tanjung batu (pulau kundur) unlike last time use to have..
The only way to get there is to clear custom at tanjong balai (pulau karimun) to get into indonesia first and then take a ferry service from Tanjong balai to Tanjong Batu..via domestic terminal
Riau islands have 4 main popular sex hub in the 80s and 90s namly the 4Bs
Batam - still very lively today and the sex trade will never die down.
Bintan (tanjong pinang) - less happening unlike last time when there is brothel village KM 24
Balai - has its share of prostitution and is still popular with malaysian tourist as it is near johor pontian terminal
Batu - less charming than before