Indonesia visa on arrival and e-VOA (B1)

The B1 is reserved for holders of a national, emergency or temporary passport issued by one of the 97 countries, special administrative regions and entities on the immigration authority's visa-on-arrival list. Nationals who are also on the visa-exemption list can enter without any visa for up to 30 days, but that stay cannot be extended or converted; the B1 can be extended once.

Stateless persons and travellers holding a titre de voyage, certificate of identity or laissez-passer cannot use it and must apply for a C1 visa instead.

Permitted purposes are tourism, visiting family, attending meetings, incentive trips, conventions and exhibitions, and transit through Indonesia to another country. It is a single-entry visa: once you leave, the visa is used up.

You may not sell goods or services, and you may not accept payment, wages or similar compensation from a person or company in Indonesia. Anyone who needs to work, give paid talks or stay beyond 60 days should choose another visa before travelling.

The state fee is IDR 500,000 for the 30-day stay, with no verification fee. The e-VOA is paid online by debit or credit card. For the paper VoA you pay at the designated bank counter inside the immigration area of the airport or seaport, receive a payment voucher and show it at the VoA counter.

Unofficial websites resell the same visa at a mark-up. Immigration only names its own portal and indonesiavoa.vfsevisa.id for the e-VOA.

With the e-VOA you upload your documents, pay by card and receive the visa by e-mail and in your e-Visa account within 24 hours. The e-VOA must be used within 90 days of issue. A variant lets you apply and pay online and collect the visa at the counter on arrival.

With the paper VoA you queue at the bank counter, then at the VoA counter, where a visa sticker goes into your passport and you get an electronic entry stamp. Buying the e-VOA in advance saves both queues.

Every passenger from abroad must also fill in the free All Indonesia declaration within the three days before arrival and keep the QR code. Visitors to Bali additionally pay the provincial foreign tourist levy of IDR 150,000 per trip, which the province asks travellers to pay online through Love Bali.

Keep track of your 30th day: overstaying is prohibited and extensions should be filed before the stay runs out.

The B1 can be extended once, to a maximum of 60 days in total. e-VOA holders extend online through evisa.imigrasi.go.id or indonesiavoa.vfsevisa.id; holders of the paper VoA go to the immigration office nearest to where they are staying.

The 30-day visit stay permit (ITK) extension is charged IDR 500,000 under the immigration fee schedule. A further stay requires leaving and re-entering on a new visa, or switching through a bridging visa where immigration allows it.