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Originally Posted by Black Page
One more example: on my first day I went to GraPARI to register my two cards: one for only calls on GSM, the other for only data on MIFI modem. I reported the whole story here.
Now, the card for Internet data is working ok, but I just discovered that the other card HAS BEEN NOT CORRECTLY REGISTERED, in spite of having done the procedure at an official GraPARI and not in a small street vendor.
I got a message: register now or you will be blocked. I can receive calls and SMS, but I cannot call neither send SMS
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I went back to GraPARI today. I did not use this GSM phone yet, but who knows if one night I may need it and the card is still blocked?
I enter the room and aaagghhh
it's FULL of Indonesian in need of any service including registration (many people do not feel capable to send an SMS to the service number).
I try to explain my problem to the trainee at the reception. She calls an employee from back-office. Good he speaks English. He does not make me wait hours, but takes my phone and my photocopy of passport and disappears in the back. This is one of the times that being a kind bule with a bright smile brings some advantage. That queue was LONG.
After a while, he comes back. He confirms the SIM card was not registered, but he did it now. Now it works
We try to call someone together. So good.
I try to complain for this new Indonesian thing about registration, that I come for 1 week, and every time I am supposed to throw away expired cars and repeat this Registration Ordeal at GraPARI. Surprise! He shows me a sheet posted on the wall:
UNTUK REGISTRASI SILAHKAN KETIK
*444*NIK*NOKK#
He tells me to enter my passport number as NIK and closing omitting NOKK, which is just for Indonesian. He keeps on confirming and saying "yes sure also for foreign passports, no problem".
I don't know if I should believe this or not, but he is sincere. Someone can try. If it works, at this point I would also say that one can enter ANY number, as I don't believe the system can check the validity of a passport of another country.
Indonesia: love it or hate it.