In Reply to: passport posted by mrphil on Tuesday, 10. July 2012 at 19:57 Bali Time:
information.
Ted has already given the correct information.
Let us use a typical retired expat as an example. Someone comes to Indonesia with a five year retirement visa, they only have four years left on their passport.
This means they are planning to depart 1 year after their passport has expired.
There are no problems what so ever.
The 6 months is calculated from the date of arrival. There are NO other rules.
This of course makes your reasoning not only look stupid, it makes it null and void.