getting re-possessed items back from customs

[tonycurran]

Hi All,
Last year Fedex messed up an export of my clothes and shoes to Sweden and the goods were returned to Indonesia but not labelled as return to sender- Indonesian customs impounded them as they contained Batik shirts and i dont have a licence to import Batik from Indonesia to Indonesia... Fedex have been worse than useless -and this is typical of how they behave
Long story short- there are 2 boxes of my clothes sitting in a customs warehouse at Jakarta Airport and these are "property of the state".
Indonesian officers will not release them to me -even after dark, and they are proposing to destroy them.
Obviously i would like to get them back but almost everyone i have tried has failed.
Is there any suggestions out there - i did email the customs web site, Fedex and many more but as i said nobody wants to know.?
?

[marcus]

I am sorry but neither I know nor (in more than 15 years in this Forum) I don't remember of anyone who could help you .

I guess it would be better to just forget about , because if they let you get back the 2 boxes , the fee for the time they kept them in the airport's warehouse would be very expensive .

If you still want to try , maybe you can get help from importers (search the internet for something like : jasa impor barang) .

[smickerie]

I had a somewhat similar experience.

About 10 years ago I had sent two 50kg packages of quality second hand clothing from Europe to Jakarta. I was testing the waters to see if I could successfully get the goods into the country and sell them at a profit. Nope.

The packages never got past customs. There were some weird fees to be paid in cash. In the end it wasn't worth it. I imagine the packages are rotting somewhere in some store room in customs - or perhaps they made out of customs somehow by somebody. Does anyone have some insight here?