Indonesia Entry Requirements 2026: e-VOA, the All Indonesia Arrival Card, and Bali's Levy

Most visitors to Indonesia in 2026 arrive on a visa on arrival, which costs IDR 500,000 and allows a 30 day stay. You can buy it online beforehand as an e-VOA. The two steps travellers miss are the mandatory All Indonesia arrival card and, for Bali, a separate IDR 150,000 tourist levy.

Indonesia has not made entry harder over the past couple of years so much as it has made it more administrative. The visa rules themselves are close to what they were. What changed is everything wrapped around them: paper landing cards are gone, the customs form has been folded into the same digital declaration, and Bali now collects a levy that has nothing to do with immigration at all. Each piece is simple. The trouble is that they live on different websites, and nobody tells you the full list at check-in.

*Images are illustrative and may differ from actual lounges and airport facilities.

Step One: Work Out Which Door You Come In Through

Indonesia sorts arriving foreign nationals into three broad groups, and which one you fall into decides everything else.

The smallest group travels visa-free under the Bebas Visa Kunjungan scheme. It is built mostly around Southeast Asian neighbours, covering Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Timor-Leste, alongside Suriname, Colombia and Hong Kong. Türkiye, Brazil, Peru, Kazakhstan, Macau and Belarus also appear on the current published list.^[3] Indonesia grants these on a reciprocal basis, which is how Brazil and Türkiye returned to the list after their own governments extended visa-free entry to Indonesian passport holders.^[9] A visa-free entry is capped at 30 days and cannot be extended or converted into another permit, so it suits a short holiday and nothing longer.

The large middle group is the visa on arrival list, and this is where most readers of this site will sit. The United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia are all on it, along with the bulk of Europe, Japan, South Korea and the Gulf states.^[2] You are not visa-free, but you also do not need to visit an embassy. You either buy the visa online before you fly or pay at a counter after you land.

Everyone else applies for a visitor visa through the official e-visa system before travelling. If your nationality does not appear on either published list, assume you are in this third group and start early.

Step Two: The e-VOA, and Why Buying It Early Helps

The electronic visa on arrival is a single-entry visa valid for a 30 day stay, issued for tourism, a government visit, a business meeting, goods purchasing or transit.^[1] The fee is IDR 500,000, or roughly 30 US dollars depending on the rate, payable by Visa, Mastercard or JCB.^[1]

Two details on that page are worth reading twice. First, the visa's validity and your permitted stay are different numbers. The visa stays valid for 90 days from issue, which is the window in which you must enter Indonesia, while the stay it grants once you arrive is 30 days.^[1] Buying a month ahead is fine. Second, the requirements are modest: a passport valid at least six months beyond arrival, a recent photo, an email address and a card.^[1] A return or onward ticket is worth having printed or saved offline, because airline staff at check-in tend to ask for it even when immigration does not.

Not every border post accepts an e-VOA. The immigration directorate publishes a defined list of entry checkpoints for e-VOA holders, covering the main international airports plus a long list of seaports and land crossings.^[2] If you are flying into Jakarta, Bali or Surabaya you are fine. If you are crossing from Malaysia by ferry to a smaller port, check the checkpoint list first.

The practical case for buying online rather than at the counter is queueing. Arrivals halls at Denpasar and Jakarta bunch up when several wide-bodies land together, and the visa on arrival payment desks sit upstream of immigration, so a slow counter costs you twice. Turning up with the visa already issued lets you go straight to the immigration line.

Extensions Are Possible, But No Longer Fully Remote

A visa on arrival can be extended once, for another 30 days, taking the maximum total stay to 60. The application begins on the official e-visa site, but the official guidance now directs applicants to attend an immigration office to complete the process, where biometrics and a photograph are captured.^[1] The extension fee matches the original visa.

The timing trap is obvious once you see it. Because there is an in-person appointment involved, and offices allocate slots a working day or more after payment, leaving the extension until the last week of your 30 days is asking for trouble. Start it around the three week mark instead.

Step Three: The All Indonesia Arrival Card

This is the newest requirement and the one most likely to surprise a returning visitor. All Indonesia is an integrated digital arrival declaration that replaced the separate immigration, customs, health and quarantine forms with a single submission.^[5] It became mandatory on September 1, 2025 for passengers arriving at Soekarno-Hatta in Jakarta, Juanda in Surabaya and Ngurah Rai in Bali, along with Batam's international port, and it applies to Indonesian citizens and foreign nationals alike.^[5]

The mechanics are straightforward. It is free, you complete it at allindonesia.imigrasi.go.id or through the mobile app, and you can submit it from three days before arrival right up to the day you land.^[4][5] You enter passport and flight details, answer the customs questions, and the system issues a QR code that immigration, customs and quarantine officers scan on arrival.^[5] Screenshot it. Airport wifi at a busy arrivals hall is not something to depend on.

Customs is worth a separate note. The declaration is part of the All Indonesia submission, and Indonesian Customs also maintains its own electronic customs declaration portal.^[7] If you are carrying goods above the personal allowance, or commercial samples, or anything you would hesitate to describe as personal effects, read the customs guidance properly rather than clicking through the questions.

Step Four: Bali Charges Its Own Levy

If Bali is on the itinerary, there is one more payment, and it is not a visa fee. The foreign tourist levy is IDR 150,000 per person per visit, collected by the Bali provincial government under Bali Provincial Regulation No. 2 of 2025, which amended the original 2023 regulation.^[6] The stated purpose is protecting Balinese culture and the natural environment and improving visitor services.^[6]

Payment goes through the official Love Bali portal, which accepts cards, bank transfers, virtual accounts and QRIS, and it issues a voucher to present when asked.^[6] Pay it before you fly. The portal also handles exemption applications for certain residence and visa categories, so long-stay permit holders should apply for the exemption rather than assuming they are outside the scheme.^[6]

The important framing for first-timers: a family of four flying into Denpasar on visas on arrival is looking at IDR 2,000,000 in visa fees plus IDR 600,000 in levies before anyone has bought a coffee. It is not a large sum in the context of the trip, but it is easier to handle at a laptop than at a payment counter. Our Bali travel guide covers what the rest of the trip actually costs.

Overstaying Is Expensive, and the Maths Is Unforgiving

Indonesia applies a fixed daily fine rather than a sliding scale. Overstays of up to 60 days attract IDR 1,000,000 for each day beyond the permitted stay, under Government Regulation No. 28 of 2019.^[8] Beyond 60 days, the matter stops being a fine and becomes a deportation and blacklisting case.^[8]

A forgotten week costs about 450 US dollars. That is the single strongest argument for either extending on time or simply booking a departure inside the 30 days, and for counting your days from the entry stamp rather than from memory.

A Sensible Order of Operations

• Check your passport first. Six months of validity beyond your arrival date, and a blank page.^[1]
• Confirm your category. Visa-free, visa on arrival, or full visitor visa, using the published immigration lists rather than a travel forum.^[2][3]
• Buy the e-VOA a week or two out. It stays valid for 90 days from issue, so there is no benefit to leaving it late.^[1]
• Pay the Bali levy if relevant. Save the voucher offline.^[6]
• Submit All Indonesia in the three days before you fly. Screenshot the QR code.^[4]
• Sort data before you land. Every one of these steps assumes a working phone at the airport, which is a good reason to read our guide to eSIMs and avoiding roaming fees.

Where the Lounges Fit

Indonesian arrivals reward a bit of patience, and the departure side is where lounge access earns its keep. Soekarno-Hatta is the country's main long-haul gateway and the one where a connection can stretch, and our Jakarta lounge guide breaks down the options by terminal. Ngurah Rai in Bali and Juanda in Surabaya both carry lounges that participate in the major networks.

If you are choosing a card before a long trip through Southeast Asia, coverage across the region varies more than the marketing suggests. The Priority Pass network is the widest net in Indonesia, and our lounge access credit card roundup compares what each issuer actually includes. For a single trip, a day pass often works out cheaper than an annual fee.

The Bottom Line

Indonesia in 2026 asks for four things from a typical Western visitor: a valid passport, an e-VOA at IDR 500,000, a free All Indonesia declaration submitted in the three days before arrival, and an IDR 150,000 levy if you are heading to Bali.^[1][5][6] None of it is difficult. All of it is easier at home than in an arrivals hall. Sort the paperwork the week before you fly, keep every QR code saved offline, and the only thing left to plan is the trip itself. The airport directory is a good place to start on the departure end.

Information is reviewed periodically and was accurate at the time of writing. Visa categories, fees, levies, and arrival declaration requirements change, and immigration policy is set by the Indonesian government rather than by this site. Always verify entry requirements with the Directorate General of Immigration, the Love Bali portal, or your nearest Indonesian embassy or consulate before travel.