BisnisBali reports that Bali’s immigration chief, Drs. I Nyoman Putra, has vowed to sack any immigration officers found to be accepting payments outside of the official tariff set for document processing. Putra said that the official tariff for document processing is posted at all immigration offices and promised to fire any officials found to be charging “additional fees” for immigration services.

Separately, BisnisBali interviewed an unnamed woman who admitted that she regularly uses the services of non-official “go betweens” to save money and time when processing immigration matters. Immigrations documents should be completed within 3 working days after paying the official fee and the presentation of a photo copy of current identity card (KTP), a family card (Kartu Keluarga) and a birth certificate (akte lahir).

Residents of Jakarta, Depok, Serpong and Tangerang that work into the evening can now possibly make use of the new train services from PT Kereta Api Indonesia (PT KAI) in the Jabodetabek area, which is going to run an economy fare electric train service starting this evening. The head of the train station in Bogor, Yuherman, said that the state-owned train company is to use trains on the two added timetables for the Jakarta-Bogor and Jakarta-Serpong evening services.

Two other evening services - Jakarta-Bekasi and Jakarta-Tangerang - are considered at the moment. The economy class electric trains with air conditioning stop at every station. Tickets will be 6.000 Rupiah (40 eurocent). This new train service is started up to help the people getting proper transport during the evening hours, since the cost of public transport has risen quickly after the government hiked prices of subsidized fuels late last month.

“The train on the route Jakarta-Bogor departs from Bogor at 21:00 and from Jakarta at 22:30. In this way it can help employees that work during the evening hours a better and more steady form of transport on the way home,” Yuherman said.