LOCATION, LOCATION ....
..... is everything.

This morning at 5 a.m. ~ yeah, I know, don't ask ~ my internet dial up connection was a massive 2kbs. Now, at about 2 p.m., it's working like shit off a shovel which is why the following email arrived in my inbox with such alacrity that you could hear the thud.

I'm posting it so that British citizens who have LOCATED themselves here in Indonesia may wish to form the Embassy who, ever since Suharto's abdication in 1998, have liked to keep tabs on us.

If you are a criminal on the run, the penultimate paragraph at the bottom may dissuade you. However I feel duty bound to inform you that once you have booked into a hotel or rented a house you are duty bound to register with the police.
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----- Original Message -----
From: sally.larner@fco.gov.uk
To: 86 folk, including 35 with local (.co.id) email addresses and 20 with local company addresses.)
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:54 AM
Subject: Registration with LOCATE

Dear All,

London has launched a new registration process worldwide called LOCATE.

Unfortunately in Jakarta we cannot use LOCATE yet. I will tell you when we can. What I fear is that new British nationals are registering on LOCATE and I am unable to register them in the Embassy.

If you have any newcomers asking about registration please ask them to use the Services and Consular Registration route or simply give them my email address and I will send them a form by email.

Many thanks,

Sally Larner
Warden Coordinator
British Embassy Jakarta
Tel: 021 31901314
Fax: 021 3160858
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