We did that a few years back when our son was in Kindergarten. He was a very "kangtan" boy so we were hoping that he would get some exposure to more Chinese. We liked the fact that most of the teachers (not sure now) are locals and I think many of them are in some kind of drama troupe. They not only teached Chinese, but some poems or songs in Hokkien, too. Quite interesting. He was there for about 1 year, but it didn’t change him much cos he only got better with chinese after he went to Primary school. The stint in the Huay Kuan didn’t get him more interested in the language. Probably just him. I heard the vacancies filled quite fast, so u need to check early for registration.

mkmi01 - thank u for the info on going to Batam to hv the card made. We decided to not take the risk of having the maid go bk during her hm leave to make it, one reason, its close to Hari Raya n mayb the surabaya office staff will be overloaded or not too keen to work, also, the place is 5-7 hrs for the maid to travel from her hmtwn n it may end up an excuse to delay coming bk.

We headed to Batam today to hv the card done, pretty convenient, other than the tiring ferry trip. Here’s what we did
- paid S$40/pax for a rtn trip tix to Batam centre. Weekday. U need to top up another S$7 dollar when collecting yr rtn boarding pass at the batam ferry terminal, so tax thingy.
- taxi cost from ferry terminal to the P4TKI Batam, abt $40000. The taxi counter is just at the exit door of the terminal.
- make sure u hv 2 copies of passport mainpage (photo/data), last page with yr home add (sticker pasted by embassy when u apply for home leave so no need to pay fiscal tax when they rtn from indo to sg), work permit, letter of agreement which u shoud hv a copy when u renewed her passport at embassy, this is a LOA signed by both u n maid, in the presence of the embassy official.
- u give a copy of those photocopies to the office staff n they will give yr maid a 2 page form to fill, basically, their info n yours. they need a stamp fee of $6000 for this form n the staff will collect $10000 from u, with no change expected bk. (be prepared for slow motion service)
- a insurance guy will come to collect $290,000 from u, try to give exact. Your second set of photocopies are to be given to this insurance guy to go prepare the insurance card n confirmation letter. They will take away with your money while u wait for the office staff to call the maid into the room to make the card.
- card is done. The staff asked u to go make a photocopy of the card for them. The copier shop is about 100m across the busy crossroad. There is no copying service in house!!! S,. Make sure u hv all your copying of the other docs done beforehand. this copying of the ktkln card seemed to be unavoidable, unless u hv a portable copier with u! Hahahah
- when we told the maid to ask the office staff for her insurance confirmation, she went in and came out $15000 poorer as the staff asked her for the money in exchange of the letter! This one is not in the record. Prob split between the 3 of them. $10000 from my change for the insurance, another $5000 from my maid’s own pocket. Not alot of money, but …
- return cab trip bk to ferry terminal is abt $50000, with the help of the security guard who called the cab for us.

Whole process of applying the card took abt 2 hrs, we went in close to lunch time n prayer time, so maybe abit slow.

This this might be a better option than having the maid going bk to their country to apply cos it may be a very pack time this period n the limited offices may be very out of their way.

Our maid just showed me her ktkln card which just expired. Anyone knows if renewal must be done at those 26offices?! Possible to bring her to Batam to get it renewed or something? Cos i really hate to hv her do it when she goes back on home leave … Wat if she can’t find the place? Or no one near her place or long q at surabaya airport or most offices packed or relax cos fasting month … Or she find this chance to delay coming bk or not come bk at all? Sorry for so many ifs cos i m paranoid that we r not able to get more firm info abt this. Many uncertainties!!! ‘sigh’

Thanks Jollyme … I hv that agreement during our recent pp renewal where we had to go level 2 to do the contract signing. I can make that copy. But that insurance for th maid, she has to buy them herself in indo? Where should she go to get this done? I want to do the online application first bu how to get the login? All in bahsa!! I think my fdw will oso hv problem cos she already had to ask for help when filling up forms when we wen to renew her pp!!! Haha. Anyone can guide me along?

Hi,


Need some enlightening ...

1-We renewed the pp for the fdw n the embassy has a sticker in her ppl that is showing our Singapore address n this will prevent them having to pay some kind of fiscal tax when they come bk from home leave. Is that true?
2-this new ruling of the KTKLN, is this something on top of that SG address sticker in the pp?
3-I read in the forum that the KTKLN can only be applied in Indonesia? So meaning we dun hv to bother to go down to Indo Embassy here to apply for anything, right? Just let her do the application during her home leave in Indo?

Thanks for yr help