About 18 months ago I was driving my car along Jalan Danau Poso in Sanur. I indicated left to turn left into my mates house. Checking the mirror I noticed a motor bike rider attempting to overtake me on the inside.(left) To make it worse he was talking to his pillion rider and had his head turned.
I had enough time to tell my passengers that we were about to have an accident and attempted to straighten the car up to give these guys a chance to pass me.
Of course they cannoned into the front left hand fender and flew gracefully over the bonnet. (I could not give them points for this dive because the degree of difficulty was unknown)
They managed to stand up and then started to abuse me.
After they had finished their tirade and demand for many millions of rupiah, I responded. The fact that my response was in Bahasa Indonesian threw them first up.
When I mentioned that I had a licence and also had my vehicle registered things changed a bit. I then offered to call the police. My mate Pete also speaks Bahasa Indonesian and mentioned that he was going to call the leader of the local banjar. At this stage they decided that it was really their fault and departed.
So my score stood at 2-0 for 18 months.
This morning I evened things up a bit. Again I was driving along Jalan Danau Poso. I noticed a tourist talking to a bemo driver. He was quite agitated and waving his arms around.
As I got close he picked up his bag,turned and ran. Straight into my right hand headlight. Of course I braked and proceeded to run him down.
I asked him if he was okay. He said something about "aarrrghh f*&k". I took this as meaning "good thanks".
So at this stage the score is 2(locals)-1(foreigner).