It sounds like he was working for Garuda Indonesia rather than Lion Air . He paid to fly and once had the 500 hours on type or 1000 hours on type was hired on expat contract which paid higher than what they paid the local Garuda Pilots
Garuda never had a P2F program and never had expat pilots until late 2010. This knuckle dragger OP said he arrived Indonesia in 2009, and then joined the national company (Garuda) in December 2010. The Garuda pilot strike was in June 2011.
So, it's easy to deduce the chronology of events of the OP's time in Indonesia.
He arrived Indonesia in August 2009. Did the P2F thing with Lion Air until he joined Garuda in December 2010. Around June/July 2011 was when the Garuda pilot union went on strike because Garuda employed foreign pilots who were paid much more than the local pilots.
But the real issue here is that these P2Fs, who paid to fly with Lion Air, and who were then employed by Garuda with approximately 500 hours were were on a much higher salary than a Garuda captain who has decades of experience and tens of thousands of hours. And you can't blame the Garuda pilot union for going on strike for that. For the record, the union got their way and Garuda stopped employing foreign pilots (until just recently with the new CRJ 1000 coming on line).
So now knuckle dragger OP, after having to go back to Europe starts whinging and whining about how he was hard done by the Indonesians. Sure, safety is always an issue in Indonesia, but his posts smells more like sour grapes than anything else.
That pretty much sums up his epic posting here on pprune.
