Travelling to Indonesia
Entry requirements by nationality
- Argentina: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- Australia: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- Brazil: visa-free short stay — up to 30 days per visit
- Canada: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- Chile: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- France: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- Germany: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- India: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- Israel: visa required
- Italy: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- Japan: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- Malaysia: visa-free short stay — up to 30 days per visit
- Mexico: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- Netherlands: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- New Zealand: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- Singapore: visa-free short stay — up to 30 days per visit
- South Korea: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- Spain: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- Ukraine: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- United Kingdom: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
- United States: visa on arrival — up to 30 days per visit
What you can bring
- Alcohol: allowed, within limits — Duty-free allowance for adult passengers arriving in Indonesia is 1 liter of beverages containing ethyl alcohol. Quantities exceeding this are subject to import duty/excise, or may be seized/destroyed by customs.Detailscompare everywhere →
- Cannabis: prohibitedDetailscompare everywhere →
- Cash: allowed, must be declared — Carrying cash (Rupiah or foreign currency) or negotiable payment instruments (cheques, traveler's cheques, promissory notes, bills of exchange) with a value equivalent to IDR 100,000,000 or more into or out of Indonesia must be declared to Customs on the Customs Declaration form. Separately, under Bank Indonesia rules, carrying physical foreign-currency banknotes (Uang Kertas Asing) equivalent to IDR 1,000,000,000 or more requires additional special permission from Bank Indonesia.Detailscompare everywhere →
- Drones: depends on specifics — Nationally, Indonesia doesn't restrict bringing a drone through customs and doesn't require registration or a licence for recreational flying of Open Category drones under 25kg, per Ministry of Transportation Regulation PM 37/2020. Bali is a documented exception: local reporting describes a 2025 directive requiring pre-arrival drone registration through the SIPP-TA/SIPUDI system for all drone weights before flying there.Detailscompare everywhere →
- E-cigarettes: allowed, within limits — Solid e-cigarettes: up to 140 units (batang) or 40 capsules (kapsul). Open-system e-liquid: up to 30ml. Closed-system e-liquid: up to 12ml. Crew-member allowances are lower than passenger allowances.Detailscompare everywhere →
- Fresh produce: allowed, must be declared — All plant product imports must carry quarantine documents from the country/region of origin, declared through Indonesia's "All Indonesia" app and inspected on arrival.Detailscompare everywhere →
- Meat & dairy: allowed, must be declared — All animal and fish product imports must carry quarantine documents from the country/region of origin, declared through Indonesia's "All Indonesia" app and inspected on arrival.Detailscompare everywhere →
- Medication: allowed, must be declared — Indonesian Customs (Direktorat Jenderal Bea dan Cukai) passenger-baggage guidance, citing regulation PMK 34/2025 (amending PMK 203/2017), lists 'obat-obatan' (medicines) — alongside narcotics, psychotropics, and precursors — as a category that must go through the red-lane (mandatory physical inspection) channel rather than the green (no-inspection) lane when declared via the passenger Electronic Customs Declaration (ECD) at ecd.beacukai.go.id.Detailscompare everywhere →
- Tobacco: allowed, within limits — Duty-free tobacco allowance per adult passenger arriving in Indonesia: 200 cigarettes, or 25 cigars, or 100 grams of loose/sliced tobacco or other processed tobacco. If a passenger carries a mix of these product types, the duty exemption is applied proportionally across categories rather than in full for each. Separate allowances apply to e-cigarette products (e.g. up to 140 solid sticks/40 capsules, or limited volumes of e-liquid for open/closed systems).Detailscompare everywhere →
- Weapons: depends on specifics — Indonesian Customs' passenger-baggage guidance lists 'senjata api' (firearms), 'senjata angin' (air weapons, e.g. air rifles/airsoft) and 'senjata tajam' (sharp weapons) — alongside narcotics and explosives — as categories that trigger mandatory red-lane physical inspection. Firearms and air weapons realistically require a police-issued import/possession permit that ordinary tourists do not have access to; 'sharp weapons' is a broader, less-defined category that the source does not limit to combat knives, so an unusually large or blade-style knife risks being treated the same way.Detailscompare everywhere →
From the blog
Checked against official sources on 2026-09-02. Official source