Double Identity Documents
As we uncovered more fraudulent documents it also became clear why she would not herself and would not allow her family or friends to talk to me—there was nothing to discuss and nothing to compromise. There was only everything to lose if I showed them all the false documents and had opportunity to counter the stories she had spread.
Even the Accusation of Divorce itself contained an internal falsehood. Made claimed the marriage had taken place at her residence in Kuta, kabupaten Badung as in the Certificate issued on 30 September 1996. But the her support documents claimed the marriage had taken place at her residence in Tabanan, kabupaten Tabanan . Even the false marriage events were false, layer after layer.
More documents came to light. I did not speak Indonesian well in the early years, and I trusted my wife to make all government arrangements, as would any but the most obsessively controlling husbands. A bule or Westerner going into a government office in those years was asking for trouble. I signed documents as she or her family put them before me, trusting their explanations even if I could not read them.
The records went back even further. In 1986 while we were living in California, months after our California marriage, she obtained a Surat Keterangan in Tabanan that claimed she lived in Tabanan and that she was never married. She use this Surat Keterangan to incorporate Uluwatu as P.T. Uluwatu in 1986, although the false claims in this Surat Keterangan by law meant the corporation was founded on false information.
In California, however, she was married well enough, and after our marriage she signed herself 'Made Donnelly' on all documents. Our bank account together used Michael and Made Donnelly, we bought our house as Michael and Made Donnelly, and she signed Sean's birth certificate as Made Donnelly, and she applied for a Green Card as Made J. Donnelly married to an American citizen.
When we moved to Bali she began signing as 'Made Jati' because it is the custom in Indonesia for women to keep their name, and it certainly made no difference to me.
Now she denied ever having done so or ever taking part in a California marriage.
Yet among the many false document were others, maybe when Made was afraid I might see them, that she filled them out truthfully enough. For example, Made arranged a Surat Tanda Laporan Diri (Residence Report) in Sanur for me in 1995, after both Sean and Brenden were born, and in that document she stated correctly that I was married according to the California Marriage Certificate of 1985 in California, and also that she was married and living with me in Sanur—although she apparently couldn't resist lying about something because she claimed to be born in Tabanan rather than her actual birthplace of Kuta.

Made Jati Residence Report 1995, prepared by Made Jati. She reports herself Married, born in Tabanan, resident in Sanur."

Michael Donnelly Residence Report 1995, prepared by Made Jati. She reports me Married (presumably to her, but not clear) based upon our marriage in California 1985, Christian although she and her family had arranged a Hindu Sudiwudani ceremony in 1994.
I was registered as Bali Hindu in Tabanan. Here I was registered as Christian in Sanur. Knowing better now her pattern of thought...she was making me two different people. Same reason she always claimed to be born in a different kabupaten than the one in which she was obtaining a false identity document.
It became clear that before Made met the ‘W’ of FTW Law Office—Ida Bagus Wikantara ('Ida Bagus' is a Brahman caste name)—she was satisfied enough with the Singapore agreement, but there was another possibility. She was already prepared to commit fraud if she could. She had spent many years preparing many false documents, and she showed them to Wikantara. He saw gold.
There was reportedly some argument at the FTW Law Office about ethics; a small bending of ethics is normal, but Wikantara was proposing something massive. The other two lawyers wanted nothing to do with it. Wikantara followed Made back home—where Wayan Dharma overheard them— to tell her he would take the case, she could get everything including the children and all assets.
Wikantara soon left FTW to start his own office focusing on the Ni Made Jati case.