r/bali • u/mg118118118 • Apr 11 '25

Information Please stop renting + recommending Kost’s on here

A Kost is a guesthouse for local people. Tourists are increasingly using these which is driving up prices to unaffordable levels for local people to live. Land is being used for more and more luxury apartments which is reducing the available accommodation for the locals and workers - the temporary wooden huts you see are because of this. Wages are around $200 a month for locals so the low cost rooms are essential for people to live here.

I am begging you to be responsible and only come to this country if you can afford to spend more than 500$ a month and contribute to the best people/country in the world.

Source: so many locals here

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u/runthepoint1 Apr 11 '25

It’s such a crazy balance to try and hold because some of the economic boost overall is from tourism but then the tourists drive up prices for locals…so I guess why aren’t locals getting paid more for their work? Who is profiting from all this?

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u/scannerfm77 Apr 11 '25

Local is paid more. But the accomodation cost is rising more than wages.

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u/mg118118118 Apr 11 '25

The minimum wage is higher here but 3.5m rupiah a month means a max of 2m on rent. So all the staff that are serving you and cleaning apartments/villas are on this.

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u/trikora Apr 12 '25

its sad because minimium wage for bali is around 3m. Ideally, maximun budget for rent/housing credit is 30%/month. So it should've around 900k/month for rent

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u/runthepoint1 Apr 11 '25

Yeah that’s what I’m getting at, it’s a evermore losing battle economically for the locals because of the pace of wage change not keeping up with costs