How do you get an Indonesia visit visa from Pakistan? (2026)

Do Pakistanis need a visa to visit Indonesia?

Yes. A Pakistani passport does not get visa-free entry to Indonesia, and Pakistanis cannot use the visa on arrival facility that many other nationalities use at Jakarta and Bali. You apply for a visa online before you travel.

What the official sources say

As of 22 October 2026, the Directorate General of Immigration publishes one combined list of the countries, special administrative regions and entities whose citizens can use visa on arrival. It runs to 97 entries and includes India, China, Türkiye, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan. Pakistan is not on it. The shorter list of countries that can buy the 30-day Visitor Visa on the e-Visa portal does not include Pakistan either.

What that leaves

It leaves an e-Visa applied for in advance. For a holiday that is the C1 tourist visa, and for visiting relatives there is a family visit visa. The process is fully online and the stay is longer than the visa on arrival gives other travellers, so the extra step is not a bad deal. But anyone who tells a Pakistani traveller to pick up a visa at Ngurah Rai airport in Bali is mistaken, or is not being straight with you.

If you are still choosing between destinations, compare the entry rules first. The Malaysia visit visa guide, the Thailand visit visa guide and the Türkiye visa guide explain those routes for Pakistani travellers.

Why can’t Pakistanis use Indonesia’s visa on arrival?

Because Indonesia grants visa on arrival, and its electronic version the e-VOA, only to the nationalities on its published list. It is a policy choice about which passports qualify, not a judgement about any one traveller, and no document you carry changes it.

Why so many blogs get this wrong

Most English-language travel content about Indonesia is written for British, American, Australian or Gulf passport holders, who can buy a visa on arrival for a 30-day stay. That advice gets copied into Urdu videos and WhatsApp forwards without the passport caveat. The visa on arrival and the 30-day Visitor Visa are real, and they are good products, but they are not open to Pakistani passports as of 22 October 2026.

The list can change

Indonesia does revise its lists from time to time. If you read that Pakistan has been added, check it on the Directorate General of Immigration’s own page before you rely on it. A screenshot in a Facebook group is not the same thing.

The C1 tourist visa and the 60-day stay

For a holiday, the C1 single-entry tourist visa is the one you want. The Directorate General of Immigration calls it the Visa Kunjungan Wisata, the tourist visit visa, and it is issued electronically.

What a C1 visa lets you do

The Directorate General’s C1 page lists tourism and visiting tourist attractions, cruise travel, attending meetings, conventions and exhibitions, business discussions and contract signing, site visits to offices or factories, and medical-related activities. It also lists what you may not do: sell goods or services, receive payment or wages from anyone in Indonesia, or act as a speaker at an event.

Validity is not the same as length of stay

The visa must be used within 90 days of the date it is issued. That is the window in which you must arrive. The stay is how long you may remain once you land, up to 60 days for the first stay, counted from your arrival date. Plan your flight inside the 90-day window and your return inside the 60 days.

Extending your stay

The Directorate General says the C1 stay permit can be extended several times, online through the e-Visa portal, up to a maximum of 180 days in total. It can also be converted to a limited stay permit if your purpose genuinely changes and you qualify. I have not found a current extension fee stated on an official page, so check the amount on the portal when you apply, and apply before your existing stay runs out, not after.

How much does an Indonesian tourist visa cost, and how do you pay?

The fee is modest, but Indonesia’s own pages do not agree on one figure, so this is a place to read the bill on the portal rather than trust a number from a blog, an agent or even this guide.

The figures on the official pages

As of 22 October 2026, the Directorate General of Immigration’s C1 page lists the government fee for a 60-day stay at Rp 1,000,000, with the verification steps at Rp 0. A tourist visa information page on the e-Visa portal itself lists IDR 1,500,000 for a stay of up to 60 days. The family visit visa page on the portal lists IDR 2,000,000. I am not going to pick one and call it the answer. The amount the official portal bills you at the payment step is the amount you pay.

How payment works

Payment is made through the payment step on the official portal, using the billing the system generates for your application. The Directorate General says the visa is then processed within five working days after the payment is received. The portal notes that card payments can carry extra charges set by your card issuer, so expect a small difference on a Pakistani bank card.

What an agent’s quote should show

• the visa type, C1 tourist or family visit;
• the government visa fee, shown separately in rupiah;
• their own service charge, on its own line;
• any ticket, hotel or insurance included in a package;
• what happens to your money if the visa is refused.

Because the government fee is modest, most of a high quote is someone’s margin. A single lump sum with no breakdown is a reason to slow down and ask questions.

What documents do you need for an Indonesian tourist visa?

The C1 file is short. Indonesia asks for fewer papers than a Schengen or UK visa, but the papers it does ask for have firm rules, and the funds rule catches people out.

Passport and photo

• Passport. Valid for at least six months. Holders of other travel documents need twelve months, but that does not apply to an ordinary Pakistani passport.
• Photo. A recent colour photograph taken within the last year, uploaded as a clear digital file.

The US$2,000 bank statement

The Directorate General’s C1 page asks for a bank statement covering the last three months, in the name of the applicant or the sponsor, showing a balance of at least US$2,000 or the equivalent in another currency. That is a fixed line on the checklist, not a guideline. A Pakistani rupee account is fine as long as the balance converts to at least that amount.

• use a statement that shows ordinary activity, salary, business income or regular deposits;
• avoid a large unexplained deposit in the weeks before you apply;
• for a family, make sure each traveller’s funding is clear, and if you plan to rely on a relative’s statement, ask the Directorate General’s visa support desk first whether that is accepted in your case;
• keep the statement legible, with your name, the account period and the balance visible.

Ticket, hotel and work evidence

The visa on arrival rules ask for an outbound ticket, and FIA expects a return ticket and hotel booking from Pakistani visit visa travellers, so carry both whether or not the form asks you to upload them. Employees can carry a letter from their employer confirming their job and leave, and business owners their registration papers, such as an NTN certificate. Every document must be genuine. A fake booking or edited statement is a fast route to refusal and a record you do not want.

Do you need a sponsor, and what about visiting family?

For an ordinary C1 tourist visa, no. For a family visit, the portal works differently, so it helps to know which form you are filling in.

The C1 guarantor rule

The Directorate General says a C1 tourist visa does not need a guarantor, except for stateless people, holders of travel documents that are not national passports, and citizens of certain listed countries. That listed group is Indonesia’s calling visa list. As of 22 October 2026, the Directorate General’s calling visa page names countries such as Afghanistan, Israel, North Korea, Liberia, Nigeria and Somalia, and Pakistan is not among them.

The family visit visa

If you are visiting a relative who lives in Indonesia, the e-Visa portal has a separate visit visa for family. Its information pages list a stay of up to 60 days, extendable, a fee of IDR 2,000,000, proof of at least US$2,000 in funds, an outbound ticket, and a letter from a guarantor declaring responsibility for your stay. The guarantor is usually the relative in Indonesia. Make sure they understand that they are taking responsibility, including for costs if you are ever removed.

If your relative lives in Indonesia on a work permit and you are hoping to move there with them long term, that is a family stay permit question, not a visit visa one. Read the official conditions before you apply.

Do you need to fill in the All Indonesia arrival card?

Yes. Separate from your visa, every passenger arriving from abroad must file an arrival declaration through All Indonesia, the government’s single system for immigration, customs, health and quarantine.

What the official sources say

Indonesian immigration offices state that from 1 October 2025, all passengers arriving from overseas must file their arrival declaration through All Indonesia. You can use the website at allindonesia.imigrasi.go.id or the official app from the Google Play Store or App Store, and you can fill it in from three days before your arrival. It brings the immigration, customs, health and quarantine declarations together, so you complete one form instead of several.

How to do it safely

• Use only allindonesia.imigrasi.go.id or the official app.
• File it within the three days before you land, not a week early.
• Enter your passport details exactly as printed, and check the flight and address fields.
• Answer the customs and health questions truthfully, including what you are carrying.
• Keep the QR code on your phone, with a screenshot in case the airport signal is weak.

The arrival declaration is not a visa and does not replace your C1. I have not found an official page that states a fee for it, and none of the official pages I read mention one. A website that asks you to pay for an arrival card should make you suspicious. If you connect through another Indonesian airport, the declaration is filed for your final destination.

What happens at Indonesian immigration when you land?

An immigration officer checks your passport, your e-Visa and your arrival declaration, and decides whether to admit you. An approved visa does not by itself guarantee entry. The decision is made at the counter.

Questions you should be ready for

• Why are you visiting, and for how many days?
• Where are you staying, and can you show the booking?
• When is your return flight?
• How are you paying for the trip?
• What work do you do in Pakistan?

Answer briefly and truthfully, and let your documents back you up. Carry printed copies of your hotel bookings and return ticket alongside the phone versions. A traveller who says holiday but has no hotel, no return ticket and very little money gives the officer every reason to look closer.

Customs basics

The customs questions are inside All Indonesia now. Declare anything you are unsure about. Never carry a package for someone else, and keep prescription medicines in their original packaging with the prescription.

Do you have to pay the Bali tourist levy?

Yes, if Bali is on your itinerary. It is a provincial charge, separate from the national visa fee, and it applies to every international tourist.

As of 22 October 2026, the Bali provincial government charges a levy of IDR 150,000 per person, in force since 14 February 2024. It is paid once per trip, before or during your stay in Bali, through the official Love Bali system run by the provincial government. You receive a voucher with a QR code by email. Inspections take place at tourist sites, and the province says tourists who have not paid can be refused access to services at tourist attractions. Pay it on the provincial government’s own Love Bali site, not through a link in a message.

Can you work in Indonesia on a tourist visa, and what if you overstay?

No, you cannot work on a tourist visa, and overstaying is expensive by the day. Both carry real consequences, including fines, deportation and a ban on returning.

Working needs a different visa

The Directorate General’s C1 page says holders may not sell goods or services or receive payment or wages from anyone in Indonesia. Working needs a separate limited stay visa, and the e-Visa portal lists a work permit from Indonesia’s Ministry of Manpower among the requirements for that route. A tourist visa allows none of this. An employer who tells you to start work on a C1 is putting you at risk.

Overstaying

As of 22 October 2026, Indonesian immigration charges a fine of IDR 1,000,000 per person for each day of overstay, counted from the first day. That is roughly the price of the visa itself, every single day. Under Article 78 of the Immigration Law, an overstay of 60 days or more brings deportation and an entry ban, and deportation can also follow a shorter overstay if the fine is not paid. Immigration offices note that a ban on a foreign national can run for up to ten years and be extended. Extend your stay online before it ends, or leave on time.

What happens at the Pakistani airport before you fly to Indonesia?

FIA immigration officers check that your passport and visa are genuine and valid, and they may ask about your trip. Visitors should carry a return ticket, accommodation details and proof of funds. Anyone travelling for work needs emigration protection.

What FIA says it checks

As of 22 October 2026, FIA’s published guidance lists these for visit visa travellers: a valid passport, a return ticket, a confirmed hotel booking with advance payment, and sufficient funds. FIA’s own list of offloading grounds includes travelling on a visit visa without a return ticket, or without a hotel booking or sufficient funds. Its Travellers’ Guide says a second officer re-checks documents before you enter the departure lounge.

If you are offloaded

FIA’s guide says the shift in-charge will personally tell an offloaded passenger the reasons, and that if your passport and visa are genuine and valid, with no apparent misdeclaration of facts, immigration staff are not authorised to offload you. FIA’s helplines are 1991 and 051-111-345-786.

The protector requirement for work

Under the Emigration Ordinance 1979, every Pakistani going abroad on a work visa must be protected by the Protector of Emigrants. A person really going to Indonesia for a job cannot fix that by holding a tourist visa, and FIA lists a protector stamp among the documents for work visa travellers, not for tourists or family visitors.

How do you spot a fake visa website or an Indonesia job scam?

Use only the official e-Visa portal and the official arrival system, and treat any job that starts on a tourist visa as a scam until proven otherwise.

Fake and unofficial websites

• Look-alike sites with Indonesia visa or Bali visa in the name, charging several times the official fee.
• Sites selling a visa on arrival or e-VOA to Pakistani passports, which Indonesia does not offer.
• A site asking you to pay for the All Indonesia arrival declaration.
• Any page that promises approval, or sells a faster VIP visa.

The official visa route is evisa.imigrasi.go.id, and the official arrival system is allindonesia.imigrasi.go.id. Both sit on the Directorate General of Immigration’s own domain. Type them yourself rather than following a search advert, and check the address before you enter passport or card details.

The tourist visa with a job offer

The usual pattern is a package: a visa, a ticket and a promised job in a Bali hotel, a restaurant or a factory, with the paperwork to be sorted after arrival. Indonesian law allows no paid work on a C1, so the promise is empty, and the money is usually gone.

• The job starts on a tourist visa, and the work permit comes later.
• No BEOE licence can be shown, and there is no job order.
• You are told to say holiday to FIA.
• Payment is in cash with no receipt, or into a personal account.
• Someone keeps your original passport.

Only a licensed Overseas Employment Promoter may recruit people in Pakistan for work abroad. Section 22 of the Emigration Ordinance 1979 makes it an offence for anyone else to take money for a job abroad. The guide to checking a visa consultant in Pakistan sets out the checks and where to report fraud. If you have already paid someone and have doubts, you can book a consultation and bring the receipts and messages.

How do you apply, step by step?

The order below works for most Pakistani tourists. Settle the purpose first, sort the bank statement early, and leave at least two weeks before your flight.

1. 1

   Confirm the purpose and the visa type

   For a holiday you need the C1 single-entry tourist visa. Pakistan is not on Indonesia’s visa on arrival list and is not visa-exempt, so plan to apply before you travel. Visiting family has its own visit visa, and work is never allowed on a tourist visa.

2. 2

   Check your passport and gather your file

   Your passport needs at least six months of validity. Prepare a recent colour photo taken within the last year, a bank statement for the last three months showing at least US$2,000 or the equivalent, a return ticket and your hotel bookings.

3. 3

   Apply on the official e-Visa portal

   Apply at evisa.imigrasi.go.id, the Directorate General of Immigration’s own portal. Choose the C1 tourist visa, enter your passport details exactly as printed and upload clear, genuine documents.

4. 4

   Pay the fee the portal bills and wait for the decision

   Pay the visa fee through the payment step the portal gives you. The Directorate General says a C1 visa is processed within five working days after payment is received. The approved visa is sent to your registered email.

5. 5

   Complete the All Indonesia arrival declaration

   Since 1 October 2025, every passenger arriving from abroad must file an arrival declaration through All Indonesia at allindonesia.imigrasi.go.id or its official app. You can fill it in from three days before arrival, and it gives you a QR code to show officers.

6. 6

   Travel, pay the Bali levy if you go to Bali, and leave on time

   Carry your visa, return ticket, hotel bookings and bank statement. If you visit Bali, pay the provincial tourist levy of IDR 150,000 once per trip. Leave Indonesia, or extend lawfully online, before your permitted stay ends.

What goes wrong most often?

Expecting a visa on arrival in Bali

This is the most common one. A traveller watches a video made for a British or Emirati passport, books non-refundable flights and plans to buy the visa at the airport. Pakistan is not on the list. Airlines can refuse to board you in Lahore or Karachi without a valid visa, and if they do not, Indonesian immigration will. Apply for the C1 before you book.

A thin or last-minute bank statement

The US$2,000 rule is on the checklist, and it asks for three months of history. A statement that was empty until a lump sum arrived last week reads badly. Keep the money in the account in good time, so the three months of history are there when you apply.

Confusing visa validity with length of stay

The 90 days is the window to enter. The 60 days is the stay. Travellers who apply too early and land on day 95 find the visa has lapsed, and travellers who count the 60 days from the issue date leave too early. Work from your arrival date.

Letting the stay run out

An overstay of even a few days costs IDR 1,000,000 a day per person. For a family of four, a missed flight and five extra days becomes IDR 20,000,000 in fines. Extend online in good time, or leave before the stay ends.

Travelling for a job on a tourist visa

This is the costly one. The traveller pays for a visa and a promised job, travels without protection, and finds no lawful work on arrival. The money is gone, and working on a C1 breaks Indonesian law.

A realistic example

This is a hypothetical illustration, not a real client. Hamza and his wife Ayesha live in Lahore. Hamza is a bank officer and Ayesha teaches at a private school. They want a 12-day trip, five days in Jakarta with Ayesha’s cousin and seven days in Bali.

• Eight weeks before. They check their passports. Both have more than six months left beyond their return date.
• Seven weeks before. They check their accounts. Each has held more than the rupee equivalent of US$2,000 for well over three months, with their salaries going in each month, so each can file with a statement in their own name.
• Five weeks before. They book refundable hotels, hold a return flight, and get leave letters from both employers. They choose C1 tourist visas rather than the family visit visa, because the cousin is not acting as a guarantor and the trip is mainly a holiday.
• Four weeks before. Each applies on evisa.imigrasi.go.id, uploads genuine documents and pays the fee the portal bills. Both visas arrive by email within a week. They check names, passport numbers and dates.
• Two days before. They each file the All Indonesia arrival declaration on the official site and save the QR codes.
• In Bali. They pay the IDR 150,000 tourist levy each on the official Love Bali system and keep the vouchers.
• At both airports. They carry the visas, return ticket, hotel bookings, bank statement and leave letters, and their answers match their papers.

Nothing in their file is clever. It simply tells one true story, with the paperwork to back it, and they left room for a delay.

The version that goes wrong

Now imagine Hamza’s neighbour Danish, 24. An agent in Gujranwala offers him a Bali visa on arrival package with a hotel job, for a large fee, keeps his passport and says the work permit will be arranged after he lands. There is no BEOE licence and no receipt. Pakistanis cannot get a visa on arrival in Indonesia, so either the agent applies for a C1 in Danish’s name, which allows no paid work, or there is no visa at all. If FIA’s questions uncover the plan, Danish may not fly. If he flies and works, he breaks Indonesian law, and each day he stays past his permit adds IDR 1,000,000 to a fine that ends, after 60 days, in deportation and a ban.

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