In Reply to: Slab posted by desmodavid on Monday, 9. July 2007 at 09:24 Bali Time:
is, wait and see.
Nothing else you can do. Thats what we (ex-pats here) have been doing since the first bomb. No option really.
The travel warnings have been in place for how-many years now?
What I have noticed over the years is the security at places like malls, schools, restaurants, hotels, etc. focus on cars. They check every vehicle with grand fervor for a while, then (as they do now in fact), they give cars the old perfunctory once over and get back to their rokoks.
I find it strange that I get checked every morning taking my kids to school (I'm carrying a bomb to school with my kids, yeah right) in the same vehicle by the same security guards.
The same occurs at some shopping centers, whilst taxi's with driver only, can drive straight through.
The only place I spot acting reasonably cautious (security wise) at the moment is the new Carrefour mall. That will probably be because the new security staff will be watching their own bottoms rather than the bottoms of cars as the inevitable weeding out and hierachy jockeying amongst them evolves.
As in most places (anywhere in the world), I suspect, one would only have to drive through any security check point twice before figuring out how to avoid detection the third time.