In Reply to: Medicines posted by baliblue on Thursday, 22. July 2010 at 22:07 Bali Time:
I doubt very much whether ANY customs departments in any country of the world would ever allow the unauthorised importing of medicines.
If you go into Kirma Farmia [the govt pharmacy in Indonesia] and check in 'the bible' you will probably find alternate [local generic and other imported] drugs exactly the same as the one you want to send. Drug prices in Indonesia are a fraction of the price for the same drug in western countries. For example my Tenormin generic costs $5 for a months dose and my Lipex generic costs $15, both far less than even the minimum prescription bill in Australia for example, and that is without any govt subsidies or health system, which show the enormous drug company/pharmacy mark-ups in the west!. Both have worked perfectly for past 10 years [Bp 72, Ch 3.5 with minimum level dosing], although the wonderful Bali lifestyle obviously helps as well!. Of course my Australian GP at first said do not do it, but now admits he did not know what he was talking about!