I would echo everything wntriscoming wrote, excellent advice. The only thing I would add is: I wish someone told me how hard it is to connect with my old life whenever I return to my home country for holiday. If you embrace this lifestyle, it will change you. It appears that returning 'home' and being able to connect to your family and friends, your own culture, and daily life again may prove to be quite challenging, if not impossible. This is not a good or bad thing, it's just that your outlook on how your life can be changes.

I am not sure there have been proposed changes of this magnitude before in Indonesia. The ability to use money to get what you want and need in Indonesia has always been prevalent (and it still is). The powerhouse JIS was not able to brush this all under the rug, which to me is the most telling. Several teachers at JIS had to really sweat it out while waiting to secure work visas for this school year. That said, only time will tell how many of these changes will be enforced.

From what I understand, these changes are not going to go away. JIS has already changed its name to Jakarta Intercultural School, and BIS is now British School Jakarta. Given these two schools have changed their names, especially JIS, I would assume the landscape is and will change in Indonesia.