From everything I've read and heard shipping in the other direction is entirely different. Most of the costs and hassles don't come from the cost of spending time on the boat, which is the only common factor. They come from customs, quarantine, time waiting in ports and availability of container space to share.
Your quote sounds about right from the people I've spoken to coming that way. My LCL is going to cost about 1300USD and take at least 4 weeks to wait for a shipment to fill the container and then get on the next boat.
Just FYI when you do make it here, head to Dili Central backpackers and meet Kym, and don't skip out on doing a loop or Timor Leste, it's incredible and totally different to Indonesia
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