You may find duty free prices to not be so much better for wines than your local wine purveyor, in which case you could properly pack a bag with wine and check it through to your destination, as
mjm recommends. Of course, check Indonesia's customs and duty requirements before you plan anything - unfortunately rendering most of this discussion moot, as you are allowed
one litre of liquor or alcohol coming into Indonesia (the world's largest mostly Muslim country).
One person on TripAdvisor in
this thread posts:
Friends take extra into Bali & if asked about extra alcohol, they say "we will pay the fine" - they are then taken behind a screen and they "negotiate" the fine....they are asked how much the wine cost - they say $5 per bottle - they then end up paying about $5 per bottle "fine" (in IDR of course)
How comfortable are you with bribery and the
possibility of confiscation?
(BTW, Japan's customs limit for bringing wine into Japan is 3 bottles of alcoholic beverages of 750 ml each.)
As this is more related to transiting Japan with wine, we've spun it off into its own thread from the connections thread.
JDiver
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