Indonesia Visa on Arrival (30-day rule)

Key parameters
Limit	30 days
Period / Window	Per visit
Counting	Any part of a day
Alternative	30-day extension, once
Additional requirements	Eligible nationality, no work

Visa on Arrival and e-VOA are the same permission bought at different moments. Applying online in advance gets you an e-VOA that lets you use the automated gates and skip the payment queue. Buying it at the counter on arrival produces the identical 30-day stay. Neither is a visa in the fuller sense — both are short-stay visit permissions tied to tourism, family visits, transit, and a narrow band of business meetings.

The stay can be extended once, which caps this route at 60 days. Where that isn't enough, the alternatives are separate permissions rather than further extensions — a visit visa applied for before travel gives longer, and a limited stay permit is the route for anyone actually working or living in Indonesia.

• A valid e-VOA doesn't guarantee entry. Your passport needs at least six months left on it, and an officer can ask to see an onward or return ticket before admitting you. Both are checked at the border rather than when you buy the permission.
• Extensions must be done in person now. A 2025 rule change reinstated biometric capture for every extension, so anyone planning a 60-day stay needs to be somewhere they can attend an immigration office partway through. An agent can prepare the paperwork, but nobody can attend in your place.
• Bali charges its own tourist levy on top of the visa. Foreign visitors pay a separate one-off amount per trip, collected by the province rather than by immigration. Paying for the visa does not cover it, and the two are handled through different official portals.
• One extension is the hard limit on this route. There is no second extension. A stay beyond 60 days requires leaving and re-entering, or a different permission obtained separately.
• The permission carries no work rights. Remote work for a foreign employer sits in a grey area, but any work for an Indonesian company or client, paid or unpaid, falls outside what this permits.
• Only official portals should be used. Numerous lookalike sites sell e-VOA applications at a markup, and the immigration directorate publishes which portal is genuine.

Overstaying is charged at a fixed daily fine, payable before you can leave, and it applies from the first day past your permitted date with no grace period. Beyond 60 days the matter stops being a fine and becomes an immigration offence, meaning deportation and a re-entry ban recorded against you. The ban length is set by immigration case by case rather than fixed in advance. Professional advice is strongly recommended in situations like this.

A three-week holiday

You apply for an e-VOA a few days before flying to Bali, clear the automated gate on arrival, and spend 20 days travelling. You're comfortably inside the 30 days and never need the extension.

Stretching to the full 60

You arrive on a 30-day permission and decide to stay longer. Around day 18 you attend an immigration office, apply, and receive a further 30 days — taking you to 60, which is as far as this route goes.

Leaving the extension too late

You decide on day 28 to extend and discover the process needs an in-person appointment that isn't available before your permission expires. Overstay charges start the day after, and the extension application is no longer straightforward.

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