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Tuition fees vary depending on the school. I currently pay Rp4 million per month for two kids. This will increase to Rp7 million per month in July as one of them will change school. In a couple of years that figure will be Rp9 million per month. Eng;ish speaking schools are often more expensive than good local speaking schools.

Cost of living hasn't really changed much when it comes to grocery shopping. It always was too high and still is. We could live on a lot less but we do like to have good food. The two cats are not as cheap to feed as you'd imagine. My supermarket bill is often Rp500k to Rp1 million per visit. I spent Rp2 million at Griya supermarket last week. Occasionally I will visit 3 supermarkets a day starting with Aeon, then Papaya and finally Setiabudi supermarket. Gotta have nice food.

No real leisure costs apart from the occasional trip to Jakarta for shopping and eating. Then we'll visit Decathlon, Sports Direct and a few other places for shoes, clothes etc for the kids.

Health insurance BPJS is cheap but we usually end up just paying for things ourselves to save time and as not every hospital accepts BPJS.

We have a well so water fees are negligible. Electricity is around Rp2 million per month. We cook with gas and it's pretty cheap. Internet and phone subscriptions are a few hundred thousand rupiah.

Now that Shell is not selling V-Power or V-Power nitro, we buy Pertamax and it costs around Rp750k to fill my tank.

Kids pocket money is Rp200k per month each. It's not much but since we pay them for most things then they get to save and decide how to spend it which is good.

Estate agents and greedy developers have been forcing house and business premises prices up,  both to buy and to rent.

Their greed hasn't hit the smaller towns and villages too badly, but it's killing the cities.

The rather poorly built estate that I rent on (until I get out) is 12 years old and service/water charges are pretty stupid at about a million per month. To give you an idea, the same would probably cost around 1/5 of that in a non-posh estate.

People who bought here are regretting it as some of the houses have already fallen down due to subsiding land and rubbish foundations.

When it comes to business premises,  especially retail units, that forces retail prices up a lot due to high costs. That's simple to avoid by shopping away from the 'nice' estates.

Electricity is cheap but it builds up when you use air conditioning a lot. A medium house with evening/night use of AC will likely be around a million per month.

Gas for cooking is very cheap.

Petrol is cheap by UK standards, but I hardly drive so a fill up from half will last me a month as a rule.

That's about 300,000 or so.

Eating out varies a lot, but local food is very cheap. A meal for one can be as little as 20,000 to 30,000.

Water comes in a 'gallon' (standard size water dispenser). They last a few days and cost around 20,000 each.

Rent varies depending on where you are. A 2 bed house in a village will cost as little as five million/year, but a 'posh' house in a large town or city can be 100 million or more. In the middle of a big city such as Jakarta, it can be a lot more.