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Indonesian visas and stay permits, explained
Every stay permit that matters, with the real requirements and costs.
The system was restructured in 2025: 133 indices reduced to 110, and employer-sponsored work visas cut from 31 to 6, so most visa advice written before then is wrong. The rule underneath it has not changed: you choose a permit by what you will actually do in Indonesia, not by how long you want to stay. These pages cover the investor and remote-worker routes, Second Home, family permits, permanent residence, and the pre-investment visa built for property due diligence.
Every answer in this section
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Does buying property in Bali give you a visa?
Not by itself. A normal villa purchase gives you no visa. The Second Home Visa can be based on property, but only at around USD 1 million, so almost everyone uses its deposit route instead.
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Which KITAS do you need for Bali?
KITAS is not one thing. There are several, they permit different activities, and choosing by duration rather than activity is how people get deported.
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What counts as illegal work on a Bali tourist visa?
A dedicated immigration task force detained 62 foreigners in its first three weeks. Sponsored posts and unpaid volunteering both count.
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Which Indonesian visa do you actually need?
The index codes changed. Here is what each one lets you do, and which ones unlock property ownership.
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What are the real requirements for the E33G remote worker KITAS?
One year of residency for remote workers, with an income floor and one rule people break immediately.
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How does the Investor KITAS (E28A) work?
Two years of residency attached to your PT PMA shareholding, and the permit most property-holding structures run on.
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What does the Second Home Visa actually require?
A deposit in an Indonesian state bank or qualifying property, in exchange for five or ten years of residence with no sponsor.
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How do you get permanent residence in Indonesia?
ITAP is converted from a qualifying temporary permit, not applied for directly. Which permit you hold decides whether the door exists.
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What is the Indonesian Golden Visa, and is it worth it?
A long-stay route for investors who commit at defined levels. It buys time and simplicity, not a single property right a cheaper KITAS would not also unlock.
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How does a spouse or family KITAS work?
Five different sub-indices depending on exactly who you are joining. Choosing the wrong one is the usual delay.
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Which visa lets you come and check out a property properly?
There is a purpose-built pre-investment category. Most buyers use a tourist visa and run out of time.
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Why did all the Indonesian visa codes change?
The system went from 133 indices to 110 in 2025, and employer-sponsored work visas from 31 to 6. Old advice is now wrong.
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Can you retire in Bali, and what does it take?
There is a route built for it. The requirements are financial rather than age-based, and property gives you nothing.
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Can you legally work remotely from Bali?
Yes, and there is a specific permit for it. Most people arrive on the wrong one.
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How does the Bali visa on arrival work?
Thirty days, extendable once for another thirty. It permits tourism and meetings, and nothing that counts as work.
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What happens if you overstay in Indonesia?
A daily fine from day one, and past a certain point it stops being a fine and becomes detention and a re-entry ban.
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How does the Indonesian spouse visa work?
Marriage to an Indonesian citizen opens a residence route, and eventually KITAP. It does not by itself grant the right to work.
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What visa do you need for business meetings in Indonesia?
It covers meetings, negotiations and site visits. It does not cover doing the work, and that line is being enforced.
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What is an EPO and do you need one?
Ending a KITAS is a process, not a departure. Leaving without closing it properly causes problems on your next application.
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What is the Indonesian business visit visa?
Meetings, negotiations and site inspections for a foreign company. Not delivering work, and that line is being enforced.
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What is the pre-investment visa?
Built for people assessing whether to invest here, which is exactly the position most foreign property buyers are in before they form a company.
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Can you volunteer legally in Indonesia?
Unpaid work is still work under the enforcement test being applied. There is a category for volunteering, and people who skip it are the ones being detained.
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How do you extend a KITAS?
Extensions are not automatic and the deadlines are unforgiving. The bigger risk is that a lapse resets your path to permanent stay.
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How do you extend a visa on arrival?
Thirty days extendable once, done online or through an agent. Apply on day 29 and a single rejected document becomes an overstay.
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How do you extend a retirement KITAS?
Extension depends on the qualifying conditions still being met, and the one that changes with age is insurance rather than income.
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Can you get permanent stay through employment?
Consecutive qualifying years on a work KITAS open the door to permanent stay. Continuity is the whole requirement and it is easy to break.
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Can an investor get permanent stay in Indonesia?
The route exists, and it rests entirely on the PT PMA staying compliant for years. Your residence is only as good as your filings.
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What permit does a child of an Indonesian citizen need?
Indonesia allows limited dual citizenship for children of mixed marriages, with a choice that must be made by a deadline most families miss.
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What is SKTT and do you need a domicile letter?
Getting the KITAS is not the end of the process. Local registration is a separate step and people only discover it when something else is blocked.
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When do you need a sworn translation?
Foreign documents generally need legalisation and a sworn translation before Indonesian offices will accept them, and the chain takes weeks.
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Can you study in Indonesia on a student visa?
Sponsored by the institution, not by you, and it does not permit work. The language-school route is the one foreigners in Bali actually use.
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How does a multiple entry visa work?
Two different numbers govern it, and confusing them is how people overstay without ever intending to.
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What happens if your visa expires while applying for another?
Switching categories leaves a window where one permit has ended and the next has not arrived. That gap is the risk.
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What is the Indonesian silver hair visa?
A longer-stay route for older applicants meeting financial conditions, positioned between the retirement KITAS and the golden visa.
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What visa can a former Indonesian citizen get?
Indonesia recognises a connection to former citizens and their descendants, with routes that are more accessible than the general ones.
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What is the Indonesia global talent golden visa?
A residency route based on qualifications and reputation rather than a property purchase or an employer sponsor.
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Can you do an internship in Indonesia?
An internship is work in immigration terms, paid or not, and it needs a permit that covers it rather than a tourist visa.
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What visa does a performer need in Indonesia?
Performing for an audience is work, whether you are a DJ, a musician, a yoga teacher or a wedding photographer, and enforcement in Bali has tightened.
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How do you extend a spouse KITAS?
The permit is sponsored by the marriage, so the extension turns on the marriage still existing and the sponsor still being able to sponsor.
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What permit do family members need in Indonesia?
A spouse and children of a permit holder get residence through the sponsor, not work rights, and the permit ends when the sponsor's does.
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How do you register a birth abroad with Indonesia?
Events that happened abroad have to be reported in Indonesia to have effect here, and the deadlines are shorter than people expect.
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What is an SKCK and when do you need one?
A police certificate required for some permits, some employment and some licensing, obtained locally and frequently left until it delays something.
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How do you extend an investor KITAS?
The permit rests on the company, so the extension turns on the company's compliance as much as on your own paperwork.
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How does an Indonesian passport work for dual nationals?
A child of a mixed marriage can hold both until eighteen. After the declaration period, one goes, and which one decides whether they can ever own land here.
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Is Bali airport fast track worth it?
A paid service that moves you through immigration and baggage faster. Useful at the wrong hour, irrelevant at the right one.
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Second home visa or golden visa for Indonesia?
Two long-stay routes based on funds rather than employment, with different qualifying bases and both newer than the alternatives in the region.
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What visit visa types exist for Indonesia?
Short courses, work trials, conferences and exhibitions each have a visit visa category. The line between attending and working is what matters.
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What permit can the parent of an Indonesian citizen get?
Family connection to an Indonesian citizen opens routes that are not available to unconnected foreign nationals.
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What happens if you move address in Indonesia?
Systems match data strictly and reject rather than query. An address updated in one place and not another produces a failure at the worst moment.
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Is there a golden visa for descendants of Indonesians?
A family connection to Indonesia opens routes that are more accessible than the general ones, and the property implications go further than the visa.
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