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How to get in Indonesia


How to get in Indonesia

Dealing with Imigrasi serves as a useful introduction to the Byzantine complexity of Indonesia's bureaucracy. The long and short of it, though, is that most Western travellers can get a visa on arrival for US$25 at virtually all common points of entry (Java, Bali, etc), so read on only if you suspect that you don't fit this description. There are three ways of entering Indonesia:
  • Visa waiver. Show your passport, get stamped, that's it. Applies only to a few select, mostly ASEAN countries.
  • Visa on arrival. Pay on arrival, get a visa in your passport, get it stamped. Most visitors fall in this category.
  • Visa in advance. Obtain a visa at an Indonesian embassy before arrival.
  • One peculiarity to note is that visa-free and visa-on-arrival visitors must enter Indonesia via specific ports of entry. Entry via other ports of entry will require a visa regardless of whether you are a visa-free or visa-on-arrival national or otherwise. It should also be noted that the days a visa holder is within Indonesia are counted with the day of entry being day 1, not day 0. This means that by 24:00 hours (12 midnight) on the night of the day of arrival you have been in Indonesia for one day. If you enter at 23:59 (11:59 PM) then 2 minutes later you have been in Indonesia for 2 days. Customs in Indonesia is usually quite laid-back. You're allowed to bring in one liter of alcohol, 200 cigarettes or 50 cigars or 100 gm of tobacco products, and a reasonable quantity of perfume. Amounts of money carried in excess of 100 million Rupiah, or the equivalent in other currencies, have to be declared upon arrival or departure. In addition to the obvious drugs and guns, importing pornography and fruit, plants, meat or fish is (technically) prohibited. Indonesia imposes the death penalty on those caught bringing in drugs. Indonesia Immigration maintains its own website , but the following is based on data from the Indonesian Embassy in London , and from the Indonesian Embassy in Singapore .

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    'Immigration on board'

    On some Garuda Indonesia flights, immigration entry procedures are conducted during the flight, which saves passengers from the need to queue to clear passport control upon arrival at the airport. More information is available . 'Immigration on board' is currently available on the following Garuda Indonesia international flights:

    • Amsterdam-Dubai-Jakarta
    • Sydney-Jakarta
    • Seoul-Jakarta
    • Tokyo-Jakarta and Tokyo-Denpasar
    • Osaka-Denpasar

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