An Indonesian visitor visa, explained properly
Bali is one of the most searched destinations in Pakistan and one of the least accurately written about, because almost all the advice online is written for the nationalities who can simply buy a visa when they land.
Pakistan is not one of them. What follows applies to an ordinary Pakistani passport.
Which visa you need — and the three lists Pakistan is not on
Indonesian immigration publishes three facilitation lists. Pakistan appears on none of them.
- Visa on arrival: not available. The official visa-on-arrival list runs to 97 entries. India is on it. Pakistan is not. This is the single most important fact on this page, because almost every "Bali trip" post you will read assumes you can pay at the airport.
- Visa exemption: not available. The free-entry list is short — nineteen countries, mostly ASEAN neighbours plus a handful of others. Pakistan is not on it.
- Calling Visa: Pakistan is not on it either — and that is good news. Indonesia maintains a restricted "Calling Visa" list of six nationalities who need special clearance before any visa can be issued. Pakistan is not among them, so a Pakistani applicant uses the ordinary route like everyone else.
A naming trap that wastes applicants' time
Indonesia's visa codes look similar and mean very different things. B1 is the visa on arrival — the one Pakistanis cannot use. C1 is the single-entry visitor visa — the one you apply for before you fly. D1 is the multiple-entry visitor visa, which does require an Indonesian sponsor.
People read "B1 tourism visitor visa" on the official index, assume it is theirs, and discover at the airport that it is the arrival facility they are not eligible for. Apply for C1.
The only official portal is evisa.imigrasi.go.id. Indonesian immigration's standing advice is worth repeating as the safest test: official Indonesian government sites end in .go.id.
What it costs
| Item | Amount | Note |
|---|---|---|
| C1 visa fee | IDR 1,000,000 | Verification cost is nil for C1 |
| Extension, per 60 days | IDR 1,000,000 | Applied for online, up to 180 days total |
| D1 multiple entry, 1 year | IDR 3,000,000 | Requires an Indonesian sponsor |
One figure you may be quoted is IDR 2,000,000. That belongs to the C2 business visa, which carries a separate verification cost of another million and does require a guarantor. For a tourist on C1 the published fee is one million rupiah.
Source and date. Fees from the Directorate General of Immigration's C1 visa page and the published immigration fee schedule, read 11 October 2026. Charged in Indonesian rupiah. These are Indonesian government fees, paid to the authorities and not to Breeze, and Indonesia can change them without notice. Our own charge is quoted separately.
The USD 2,000 rule — a published figure, which is rare
Across this whole site we keep telling you that countries do not publish minimum bank balances. Indonesia is the exception, and it says it plainly on the C1 requirements:
What Indonesia actually requires
"Proof of living expenses in Indonesia in the form of a bank statement in the foreigner's or sponsor's name for the last 3 months of at least USD 2000 or an equivalent amount in other currencies."
Three things follow. The figure is USD 2,000, not a rupiah amount, so it moves with the exchange rate. The statement must cover three months. And the account may be yours or your sponsor's — so a parent or spouse funding the trip can satisfy it, which matters for students and for anyone travelling on family money.
This is the one number on an Indonesian file that is worth planning around in advance, because three months of history cannot be created the week before you apply.
Documents
The official C1 requirement list has exactly three items, and under "specific requirements" the page says, in those words, "No specific requirements."
- A travel document valid for at least six months before it expires
- The three-month bank statement showing at least USD 2,000, in your name or your sponsor's
- A recent colour photograph
The published photo specification: colour, JPEG, JPG or PNG, at least 400 by 600 pixels, under 2MB, with the head from hair to chin filling 50 to 60 per cent of the image height and the eyes at 50 to 60 per cent of the height. No blurred, expressive or non-facial images.
Two absences worth noting, because they surprise people. No return ticket is required for a C1 applicant on an ordinary passport — Indonesia asks for one only from stateless applicants and holders of non-national travel documents, and for the visa on arrival. No hotel booking and no travel insurance appear on the official C1 list either.
And Indonesia publishes no separate document list for salaried, self-employed, retired or student applicants. There is one list and it applies to everybody. If you are shown an Indonesian checklist demanding employer letters, NTN certificates and salary slips, that is an agency's invention.
How to apply, and the sponsor question
For C1, Indonesia's position is: "You don't need a sponsor to apply for this visa" — with three exceptions, for stateless applicants, holders of non-national travel documents, and citizens of a particular list of countries.
We will be straight with you about that third exception: the list it refers to is not named or linked anywhere on the official page, and we could not identify it from any Indonesian government source. Pakistan is not on the Calling Visa list, which is the obvious candidate, so a Pakistani tourist should not normally need an Indonesian sponsor for C1. But we are not going to state as fact something Indonesia has not published. It is worth a confirming question to the Embassy before you build a plan around it, and it is one of the things we check for you.
The multiple-entry D1 visa does unambiguously require a sponsor.
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Build the bank history first
Three months, USD 2,000 or equivalent, in your name or your funder's. Start here, not at the application.
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Create your own account on the portal
The Indonesian text of the official instructions is explicit that the foreigner holds the account and applies personally. The English version of the same page says "sponsors must have an account", which is a mistranslation of the Indonesian original — do not let it send you looking for a sponsor you do not need.
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Apply for C1, not B1
Check the code on the application before you pay.
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Pay, then count five working days
The published processing time is five working days after payment is received, not after submission.
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Travel within 90 days
The visa dies 90 days after it is issued whether or not you used it.
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File the All Indonesia arrival declaration
Free, and up to three days before you land. See below.
Stay, validity and extending
Indonesia keeps these two separate and says so: "the visa validity period differs from the period of stay."
- Validity: 90 days from the date of issue. This is your window to enter. If you do not use it, you must apply again.
- Stay: up to 60 days, counting from your arrival date.
- Extension: up to 180 days in total, in 60-day blocks, each costing IDR 1,000,000 and applied for online through the same portal account.
That extension right is genuinely generous by regional standards — six months in Indonesia on a tourist visa — and it is the reason C1 suits a longer Bali or Java trip better than most Southeast Asian visitor visas.
What you may not do on it: "sell goods or services or receive salary, wages, or compensation for their work/business from individuals or corporations in Indonesia", or appear as a speaker at an event. Remote work for a foreign employer is a grey area Indonesia does not address on this page, so we will not pretend it does.
The arrival declaration
Indonesia has merged its immigration, customs, health and quarantine arrival forms into a single digital declaration called All Indonesia, at allindonesia.imigrasi.go.id and in the official app.
- Free. Immigration states it in those words: filling out the arrival declaration is free of charge.
- Submit it up to three days before arrival, or on landing.
- It replaces the separate electronic customs declaration at the airports where it is in use. Where it is not yet rolled out, the customs declaration is filed at ecd.beacukai.go.id, which is also free.
- It became mandatory from 1 September 2025 at Soekarno-Hatta, Juanda, Ngurah Rai and the Batam ports, with rollout continuing to other entry points.
Rules people miss
- Overstaying costs IDR 1,000,000 per day. Indonesia publishes the figure, and it is enforced. Beyond 60 days of overstay the outcome is deportation and a ban, typically six months. If the fine is not paid, deportation and a ban follow regardless.
- The validity clock is the one that catches people. Ninety days from issue, not from travel. Applying early to "be safe" is the opposite of safe.
- C1 can be converted to a temporary stay permit inside Indonesia; the multiple-entry D1 cannot.
- Deportation costs are recoverable from the foreigner, their guarantor, their family or their mission.
- Beware stale official pages. At least one Indonesian immigration regional site still publishes an old 43-country visa-on-arrival list and a Covid-era insurance requirement. It contradicts the current national list. Pakistan is absent from both, so the conclusion does not change — but it is a good reason to read the national pages rather than a regional one.
How we prepare your file
Indonesia has a short document list and a long list of ways to lose time. Our work is: getting the three-month, USD 2,000 statement in place early and in the right name; applying under C1 rather than B1; timing the application so the 90-day validity covers the actual trip rather than expiring before it; meeting the photo specification first time; and confirming the sponsor question with the Embassy rather than guessing at it.
Indonesia's missions for Pakistan are the Embassy in Islamabad and the Consulate General in Karachi. Breeze Travels & Tours has worked on visa files from Davis Road, Garhi Shahu, since 2003, and flights are issued by the same desk on our own IATA accreditation once the visa is in hand — see air ticketing.