Indonesian Professional Pursues Singapore Dream with a $2.5M FIRE number [Chills 284 ft Pandeka]

His first salary in Jakarta was S$150 a month. He saved 40% of it. Eleven years on in Singapore, he sits seven or eight years out from a S$2.5 million FIRE number, with two kids and a helper.

Meet Deka, the Indonesian professional who built 630,000 subscribers in eighteen months teaching the thing his banker friends in Jakarta had never heard of: index investing. No gurus, no hot tips, no McLaren on the feed. Just a fixed split of every payday, half of every bonus into IBKR the day it lands, and a household that runs on one salary.

Deka breaks down how he outsaves his childless Singaporean friends, why he moved his largest position out of CSPX and into VWRA, and what S$2.5 million looks like once you take CPF out of it.

If you assumed FIRE in Singapore belongs to couples without kids, this is the counter-example.

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