For Indonesia, for such short business trip, DO NOT tick business in the Arrival-Departure card! Tick holiday/visit friends/relatives in the card. When you tick holiday/visit friends/relatives in the card, you also have to coincide with your dressing. Nobody will dress in business suits and tie when you go on holiday! If you do so, then you are giving away yourself. Dress casual even when you are there for business.
Anywhere in the world for such trips, the immigration officers do not detain you for a business visit ticked in the Arrival-Departure card, unless you are working without a work permit. If you tick business and you do not have a business visa, you will get ha$$le$ at the immigration counters. The immigration officers will detain you for que$tioning for your business trip when you do not have a business visa stuck in your passport. They are very good in spotting first timers or inexperience travellers. ...
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