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Too much travel
Given that you aren't travelling until September 2013, you should by then also have the option of getting from Bali/Java to KK via Malaysia Airlines, which should be in Oneworld by then, though obviously one won't be able to redeem points on them until they formally join sometime around the end of this year.
I probably wouldn't use Malaysian for the TPAC flights because the flight from LAX-KUL-DPS has a stop in NRT where the CX flights are nonstop from LAX or SFO. And as I will begin the trip in MCI and have to stop in DFW to connect to the west coast, the less total travel time the better.
Malaysian doesn't fly KK-DPS direct, only through KUL. That would use up a full day of traveling. Air Asia has 1 flight a day on T, Th, Sat to KK from Jakarta, AK 6713 leaving at 7:20 pm. I'd have to find a flight from DPS or YOG on another airline that wouldn't have too much time on the ground transferring. I'd have to claim the luggage in Jakarta and recheck on to KK. I imagine I'd need to allow at least 2 hours as the departing flight is international.
Any suggestions of airlines to do this? Is it worth spending some time in Jakarta, maybe 1 or 2 nights?