Indonesia Visa Requirements for Tourists: Visa-Free Entry and E-Visas

The visa on arrival (index B1) is the standard tourist entry. It costs IDR 500,000, is valid for 30 days from the day you land, allows a single entry and can be extended once for another 30 days for the same fee, giving a maximum stay of 60 days. Roughly 97 countries are eligible, including all of the EU and UK, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, India, China, most of Latin America and the Gulf states; the full list is on the e-visa portal. You can buy it in two ways. At the airport, pay at the VOA counter before immigration in cash (rupiah or major currencies, with poor exchange rates) or by card, then join the immigration queue; at Denpasar’s Ngurah Rai airport this adds 20 to 60 minutes at peak arrival times. Or apply online for the e-VOA at evisa.imigrasi.go.id up to 90 days before travel: upload a passport photo and passport scan, pay by card, and receive the visa by email within a day or two to show at the autogate or counter. The UK Foreign Office advises applying at least a week before departure; a visa approved after you land is not valid.

The e-VOA is the same visa at the same price, but it lets you use the e-gates at Jakarta, Bali, Surabaya and Medan and extend online instead of through an agent. It also removes the risk of the counter running out of the right change. The VOA is for tourism, family visits, transit and short business meetings only, and it cannot be converted into a work or long-stay permit inside the country. In August 2026 Immigration proposed raising the e-VOA to IDR 750,000 and the airport VOA to IDR 1,000,000; at the time of writing the fee is still IDR 500,000, so check the portal for the current figure.

Visa-free entry (bebas visa kunjungan) gives 30 days for tourism, cannot be extended and cannot be converted to another permit. It applies to the other ASEAN member states (Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) and Timor-Leste and to a short list of other passports added since 2025, including Hong Kong, Colombia and Suriname, with Turkey, Brazil, Peru, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Macau added by Ministerial Regulation 10 of 2026 from 9 July 2026. If your passport is on the list, you still need the arrival card, six months’ passport validity and an onward ticket, and if you want more than 30 days you should buy the visa on arrival instead, since you cannot extend a visa-free stay. Singapore permanent residents have a limited visa-free arrangement for the Riau Islands (Batam, Bintan and Karimun) only. Every other nationality not on either list applies for a visa in advance at evisa.imigrasi.go.id or an Indonesian embassy.

If you know you want more than 30 days, or you are not eligible for the visa on arrival, apply for the single-entry visit visa C1 (tourism) online before travelling. It allows 60 days from entry and can be extended at an immigration office twice, 60 days each time, for a maximum of 180 days. The government fee is higher than the VOA (roughly IDR 1,500,000 for the visa itself at the time of writing; check the portal), and you need a passport valid for at least six months, a return or onward ticket, proof of funds (a bank statement showing roughly USD 2,000 is the commonly cited threshold) and, for some nationalities, a local sponsor or guarantor, which visa agents in Bali supply for IDR 1,000,000-2,500,000 on top. Processing takes a few working days. You enter on the C1 and then extend inside the country, so it suits surfers in Lombok, yoga students in Ubud and slow travellers who do not want the 30-day clock of the VOA. Multiple-entry visit visas (index D1 and D2, valid for a year or more with stays of up to 60 days per entry) exist for frequent visitors and are also applied for online.

Every foreign arrival must complete the All Indonesia arrival card online at allindonesia.imigrasi.go.id or in the All Indonesia app within 72 hours (three days) before landing. It is free and replaces the paper arrival form and the separate electronic customs declaration (e-CD) and health declaration, so you fill in one form with your passport, flight and accommodation details and your customs answers and receive a QR code by email. Show the QR code at immigration and again at customs on the way out of the baggage hall, whether you land at Jakarta, Denpasar, Surabaya, Yogyakarta or arrive by ferry at Batam from Singapore. Airlines may ask to see it at check-in. Do it on your phone at the departure gate if you have forgotten; the Wi-Fi at Jakarta and Bali arrivals is slow and the form takes ten minutes. Customs rules to answer honestly: IDR 100 million or more in cash must be declared, there is a duty-free allowance of one litre of alcohol and 200 cigarettes per adult, and drones, more than two phones, large quantities of medicine and drugs of any kind attract attention. Items bought abroad worth more than USD 500 per person are technically dutiable.

Three more things are checked at the border. Passport validity: six months beyond your arrival date and at least two blank pages; airlines enforce this at check-in and will refuse boarding. Onward or return ticket: required for the visa on arrival and visa-free entry, and occasionally asked for; a cheap flight to Singapore or Kuala Lumpur satisfies it. Proof of funds is rarely requested but may be, so have a card and a bank app to hand.

Foreign tourists entering Bali also pay the Bali tourist levy of IDR 150,000 (about USD 9), introduced in 2024 to fund culture and environment programmes. Pay it before you fly at lovebali.baliprov.go.id, choosing a single or group payment and entering your name, passport number and arrival date; the voucher with a QR code is emailed to you. Counters and QR stands at Ngurah Rai airport and the Benoa cruise port take payment on arrival, but the queue is slower; there is no levy for onward travel to the Gili Islands, Lombok or Labuan Bajo. It is charged once per visit to Bali, including if you arrive from another Indonesian island, and officials have run spot checks at Tanah Lot, Uluwatu and other attractions since 2025, so keep the voucher on your phone. Exemptions exist for certain visa categories and can be requested on the same site. Nowhere else in Indonesia charges a provincial entry levy.

A VOA or e-VOA extension adds 30 days and costs IDR 500,000 in government fees. Start seven to fourteen days before your visa expires: if you let it lapse you pay the overstay fine from day one. There are two routes. Yourself: e-VOA holders apply on the e-visa portal, pay online, then attend the immigration office named in the confirmation for a photo, fingerprints and a short interview, which has been required for all extensions since May 2025; airport-counter VOA holders go to the office in person, submit passport, return ticket and the form, pay at the bank window and return a few days later for the stamp. Allow two or three visits and half a day each in Bali, where the Denpasar (Renon) and Ngurah Rai (Jimbaran) offices are the busiest in the country; Singaraja in north Bali and Mataram in Lombok are quieter. Through an agent: hundreds of agencies in Canggu, Seminyak, Kuta and Ubud charge IDR 800,000-1,300,000 all in and reduce your involvement to one biometrics appointment. Agents are legal and worth it if your time is short, but check reviews, hand over your passport only against a receipt and do not use anyone who promises to skip the in-person visit.

Extensions for the C1 visa work the same way at 60 days a time, with higher fees. A visa-free stay cannot be extended at all; if you are on one and want to stay longer, you must leave the country (Singapore via Batam or Tanjung Pinang, and Kuala Lumpur, are the usual short hops) and re-enter on a visa on arrival. Officials can refuse an extension if you have an unpaid traffic fine or an immigration record, so settle any police matters first.

The overstay fine is IDR 1,000,000 (about USD 60) per day, payable in cash or by card at the airport immigration desk when you leave, and officers do not round down for a late-night flight. Overstay for up to 60 days and you pay the fine and get a note on your record; overstay for more than 60 days and you are detained, deported at your own cost and blacklisted from re-entering for six months to two years, with the possibility of prosecution. Immigration also deports and bans visitors for working on a tourist visa, which includes paid photography, yoga teaching and running a business from a villa, and Bali has stepped up raids and tip-off lines since 2023. If you are stuck in Indonesia because of illness or a cancelled flight, go to an immigration office before your visa expires with the evidence; emergency extensions are possible, overstays are not forgiven afterwards.

Indonesia launched a one-year Remote Worker visa (index E33G) for people employed by a company outside Indonesia and earning at least USD 60,000 a year; it is applied for online with an employment contract and bank statements and allows multiple entries and Bali residence without a local sponsor. Alongside it sit the Second Home visa (E33) for five or ten years against a large deposit, the retirement visa (E33F) for over-55s, and the investor and family KITAS routes. Working for Indonesian clients or employers on any of these, or on a tourist visa, is illegal. Requirements, income thresholds and fees are compared on our Indonesia nomad visas page.

Children need their own passport and pay the full visa on arrival fee of IDR 500,000 regardless of age; there is no child discount on visas, extensions or overstay fines, and the Bali levy applies to every foreign visitor without a stated age exemption, so a family of four pays IDR 2,600,000 in entry costs before the trip starts. A child travelling with one parent or with another adult may be asked for a consent letter from the absent parent and a birth certificate, so carry copies. Dual nationals should enter and leave on the same passport. If you stay in private accommodation rather than a hotel or registered villa, Indonesian law requires the host to register you with the local police within 24 hours, with fines of up to IDR 5,000,000 for not doing so; hotels do this automatically. Yellow fever vaccination certificates are required only if you arrive from a country with transmission risk. Finally, if you enter through an autogate your passport is not stamped and the system records your entry, so photograph your e-VOA approval and keep the arrival card email as proof of legal stay if asked.

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