Visa Exemption · Indonesia
Indonesia Visa Exemption (A1)
Citizens of fifteen countries — the ten ASEAN states and five others — enter Indonesia for up to 30 days without a visa, free of charge. The free route, with one important catch: it doesn’t extend.
Index A130 days, non-extendable15 eligible countriesFree
Overview
What is the Indonesia visa exemption?
The visa exemption, index A1, lets citizens of certain countries enter Indonesia without applying for a visa. It’s free, granted at the border, and good for up to 30 days. Indonesia offers it unilaterally to nationals of fifteen countries as a way to simplify short visits.
The 2025 visa overhaul folded the old purpose-based sub-codes into this single A1 index, so one exemption now covers a wide range of non-employment activity — tourism, meetings, family visits, medical treatment — rather than splitting them into separate types. What it never covers is hands-on work.
Eligible countries
Which countries are visa-exempt
Fifteen countries in total: the ten ASEAN member states and five others. Indonesia cut the list from 169 to 13 under Presidential Regulation 95 of 2024, then added Brazil and Türkiye in July 2025 on a reciprocal basis.
ASEAN member states
- Brunei Darussalam
- Cambodia
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Vietnam
Other eligible countries
- Brazil
- Colombia
- Hong Kong (SAR passport holders)
- Suriname
- Türkiye
If your passport isn’t on this list, you’re not visa-exempt. Most nationalities can still enter on a visa on arrival, and everyone else applies for a visit visa before travel. Both routes are covered further down.
What it covers
What the A1 exemption lets you do
Since the 2025 consolidation, one A1 entry permits a broad set of non-employment activities.
Tourism and holidays
Meetings, conventions, and exhibitions
Family and social visits
Yacht tourism
Transit through Indonesia
Business discussions and buying goods
Medical treatment
What it doesn’t allow. Any hands-on or paid work. The exemption is for visiting, not working. Taking a job or running operations needs a work permit and a KITAS.
The stay
How long you can stay
The exemption gives you 30 days, counted from your arrival as day one, with no grace period. It’s free, but it’s rigid. It cannot be extended, and it cannot be converted into another visa while you’re in the country. To stay longer you either leave and come back, or you choose a different visa before you travel.
Visa-exempt but staying more than 30 days? Don’t use the exemption. Because it can’t be extended, a visitor from an exempt country who wants 45 days is better off on a visa on arrival, which costs IDR 500,000 and extends once to 60 days. The free route is the wrong default when stay length doesn’t fit.
Overstaying the exemption costs IDR 1,000,000 per day and can lead to a blacklist, so the exit date is the thing to watch.
Requirements
What you need at the border
- A passport valid for at least six months, with at least two blank pages.
- A return or onward ticket.
- The All Indonesia Arrival Card, the digital arrival declaration filed before you land.
- For an official or government visit, an invitation letter from the hosting Indonesian institution.
Other routes
If your country isn’t on the list
Most other nationalities can still enter easily. Around eighty countries can buy a visa on arrival, the B1, for IDR 500,000, valid 30 days and extendable once to 60.
If you’re on neither the exemption nor the visa on arrival list, or you’re coming for a purpose those don’t cover, you apply before you travel. A single-entry visit visa, the C index, suits one longer stay by purpose. A multiple entry visa, the D index, suits frequent trips over one to five years. We arrange both.
Common questions
Visa exemption questions
What visitors ask most about entering Indonesia visa-free.
What is the Indonesia visa exemption?
Free visa-free entry for citizens of fifteen countries, under index A1. You arrive without applying for a visa and can stay up to 30 days for tourism, meetings, family visits, transit, business discussions, or medical treatment. It does not allow work and cannot be extended.
Which countries are visa-exempt?
The ten ASEAN states — Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam — plus Brazil, Colombia, Hong Kong (SAR), Suriname, and Türkiye. Fifteen in all.
Do Malaysians need to apply for a visa to Indonesia?
No. Malaysia is on the exemption list, so Malaysians enter visa-free for up to 30 days with just a passport, an onward ticket, and the arrival card. There’s nothing to apply for in advance. The one exception is a stay longer than 30 days: since the exemption doesn’t extend, a longer trip is better on a visa on arrival.
How long can I stay?
Up to 30 days, counted from your arrival as day one. There’s no grace period, and the exemption cannot be extended, so you must leave before day 30.
Can I extend or convert it?
No on both counts. The exemption cannot be extended at an immigration office, and it cannot be converted into a visit visa or KITAS while you’re onshore. To stay longer you leave and re-enter, or you arrange a different visa before travel.
I want to stay longer than 30 days. What should I do?
If you’re from an exempt country, take a visa on arrival instead of the exemption — it extends once to 60 days. For longer than that, or for a specific purpose, a single-entry visit visa runs up to 180 days. We can set either one up.
What if my country isn’t on the list?
Around eighty nationalities can use a visa on arrival. Anyone else applies before travel for a visit visa: the C index for a single stay or the D index for multiple entries, depending on the purpose.
Is the visa exemption free?
Yes. There’s no fee for the exemption itself. A visa on arrival, by contrast, costs IDR 500,000.
On the ground in Indonesia
Talk to our Indonesia team
For most visa-exempt visitors there’s nothing to do — you arrive, the immigration officer stamps you in, you have 30 days. Where the exemption doesn’t fit — a longer stay, a non-exempt passport, a business purpose that needs a guarantor — our Jakarta team picks the right route and runs the application.
Phone+62 21 2205 7930
OfficeSatrio Tower, Floor 6, Unit 5
RT.7/RW.2, Kuningan
Jakarta 12950, Indonesia
RT.7/RW.2, Kuningan
Jakarta 12950, Indonesia