These factors tend to shape the character of one's return experience. Some factors will be more critical to some people than others. Individual Experiences Re-entry experiences are very individual. You may be interested in these comments from students now working in Jakarta. The cost of living in Jakarta is high.
Books are expensive.
Being fresh from the campus, I was very idealistic. Not all my ideas could be put into action immediately. The current economic difficulties that Indonesia is facing will no doubt lengthen the job search process in many cases and exacerbate the re-entry process as well.