{"id":5111,"date":"2016-10-28T14:07:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petesadventureride.com\/?p=5111"},"modified":"2016-11-01T07:43:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T07:43:56","slug":"beyond-surabaya-to-the-remainer-of-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.petesadventureride.com\/2016\/10\/28\/beyond-surabaya-to-the-remainer-of-java\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Surabaya to the remainer of Java"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tuesday 1st November 2016<\/p>\n
Having blasted through Java and Sumatra and with Medan within easy reach, I am now in Bagan Batu, I am having a lay day to catch up on a few things and get this old body a bit of a break.<\/p>\n
I left Surabaya and headed to Batu. I had to obtain a police accident report to a assist in a travel insurance claim and also to show the police my bike was repaired so that they could release Mr Mohummad’s vehicle. I also so wanted to see if if it was still being impounded. On arriving in Batu I couldn’t find the cop shop and finally giving up asked a few guys at a recreation park. One of them kindly escorted me to the cop shop in the town, which wasn’t he one I was after. It took about half a hour of questioning \u00a0and phone calls and the help of an interpreter \u00a0before I was escorted to the Police compound. Here I asked to see the car that hit me and was shown a similar vehicle that had had a front end collision. However, the photo I had taken on the day of the accident didn’t match the vehicle I was shown. Funny about that. More on this later. I could not get a copy of the Police accident report. What I got, all in Indonesian, was that I was involved in a collision on the 2nd September in Batu, my details and that was about it. No details of the accident, how it occurred, the other party involved. Of course no information as to when the vehicle was released. What a total waste of time that was. So half an hour later, on the road to Blitar, I passed the spot of the accident and didn’t even bother to stop. I was now in new territory 7 weeks late.<\/p>\n