After visiting East Timor , we hitchhiked to the west of the island, which belongs to Indonesia. By hitchhiking a plane of Transnusa airline company , we reached the island of Flores for ten days and then the island of Sulawesi. But the other airline company, which was supposed to offer us a plane ticket to Singapore,  no longer responded to our messages. We were therefore stuck in Makassar, in the middle of the Indonesian archipelago. Our tourist visas would expire ten days later. It was not possible to extend our visas, the overstays fines were very expensive and I was afraid that the authorities would force me to buy a plane ticket, which would end up my hitchhiking world tour challenge. A race against time began. Finally Pelni Ferry agreed to take us free on board of a ship to Jakarta (Java Island) and to Batam, the island in front of Singapore. We spent four days at sea. On the last day of our visa expiry, we hitchhiked a last ferry to Singapore that we could see in the distance. Our month-long trip to Indonesia ended in a stressful race. That is why we felt relieved to arrive at city-state, our entrance gate for the Asiatic continent