My girlfriend and I planned to spend a good 2 weeks in Sibu, the main objective to be here is to get our marriage certificate, at least on “ready” stage. It turned out it wasn’t as easy as we thought.

My girlfriend has almost every document ready. Letter from the governmet stating she is still in single status, a permission letter from both parent and a family heritage document from the government as well. Thinking it were all ready to go.

We went to JPN (Jabatan Pendaftaran Negara) the other day, took the number and waited for 3 hours. Since it is August in lunar calendar, many couple tend to register on the day (well, only 3 couple and it took 3 hours of our time you see).

The officer lady says “You must also get this document. Either at Indonesia or in Kuching”. So we thought it shouldn’t be that hard. Of course, we called the Kuching consulate to ask about the document we have to bring. First time she (the representative of Kuching Indonesia consulate) asked was “What is your both religion?”. Both of us holds a different religion, so she says it isn’t possible to make the document here.

Then again, we head to FooChow Association, they can’t help, and we went to Wong’s Association, they recommend us a person in Sibu lawyer firm, we went there, he insist we get all the document ready and go to Kuching, they will/should provide us the document. Happily we leave and thinking to get the document.

Correct! No document can be sign unless we get a marriage certificate from Indonesia before hand. Time to fly again! Dammit! All we need was this little document, or a letter. That’s why both brothers (Malaysia and Indonesia) just like to fool their nation instead of helping. Some more, now want to start war? Go ahead and start it idiot!

P/S: Research telling us, different religion can’t be registered in Indonesia as well. Sigh…