Indonesia Business Visit Visa

Key parameters
Limit	60 days
Period / Window	Per visit
Counting	Any part of a day
Alternative	Two 60-day extensions, 180 days max
Additional requirements	Indonesian sponsor, single entry, no work

Two things distinguish this from a tourist permission. It has to be applied for before you travel, through the official e-visa portal, and it requires a sponsor in Indonesia — a company or authorised individual who takes formal responsibility for your visit. There's no arriving and sorting it out at the counter.

What it permits is deliberately narrow. Business meetings, contract negotiations, supplier and factory visits, conferences, seminars and audits all fall inside it. What sits outside is anything amounting to work: selling goods or services, taking day-to-day charge of a local operation, or receiving wages or any other payment from an Indonesian source.

Anyone actually employed in Indonesia needs a limited stay permit and a work permit instead — a different process with different requirements.

• It's a single-entry visa, spent the moment you leave. Stepping out to a neighbouring country partway through ends it, even with weeks of permitted stay unused, and coming back means applying again from scratch. Anyone who needs to come and go wants the multiple-entry business visa instead, issued for a term of years with visits of up to 60 days each.
• The sponsor carries real responsibility. An Indonesian company or authorised individual formally vouches for your visit, and problems with the sponsor's standing can affect your visa and your extensions.
• Repeated back-to-back stays start to look like residence. Using the full 180 days, leaving briefly, and returning on a fresh visa is a pattern immigration recognises. Someone genuinely based in Indonesia needs a limited stay permit rather than another visit visa.
• The prohibited activity is defined by what you do, not how long. Signing a contract as a party is a business visit. Performing the work under it for an Indonesian client is not, however short the engagement.
• Extensions can't be stacked in advance. Each 60-day extension is applied for separately, in sequence, while the current permission is still valid.

Working on a visit visa is treated as an immigration offence rather than a paperwork error, and the consequences run to deportation and a re-entry ban. The sponsoring company is exposed to its own penalties for hosting unauthorised work. A plain overstay is different and cheaper — a fixed daily fine payable before departure — but once it passes 60 days that too becomes deportation and a ban. Professional advice is strongly recommended in situations like this.

A supplier audit that fits the route

Your employer abroad sends you to inspect three Indonesian factories over ten weeks. A sponsor company arranges the visa, you're admitted for 60 days, and a single extension covers the rest without leaving the country. Inspections and meetings are permitted activities throughout.

Using the full run of extensions

A negotiation drags on and you need close to six months. You take both extensions in sequence, each applied for before the previous permission lapsed, reaching the 180-day maximum — at which point you have to leave regardless.

The line into prohibited work

You arrive for meetings, then agree to spend a month building a system for the Indonesian client directly, invoiced locally. The day count is irrelevant here: delivering paid services to an Indonesian client is work, which this visa doesn't permit.

• Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi — Official e-visa portal
• Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi — Immigration information