Bali entry: the tourist levy, the e-VOA and the All Indonesia form

Getting into Bali, part of Indonesia, now involves up to three separate steps, run by three different parts of government. Indonesian immigration issues the visa, either on arrival or in advance online. The All Indonesia portal takes your customs and health declaration in one free form. And the Bali provincial government charges international tourists a levy for the island's culture and environment.

None of the steps is hard, but they are easy to confuse, and look-alike websites have a long history of charging more than the real thing. The UK government's travel advice carries an explicit warning on this point, quoted below, so the safest habit is to start every step from an official government address and to keep a screenshot of each confirmation.

For a typical holiday from the US, UK, Europe or Australia, you need all three: a visa (on arrival or applied for online), the All Indonesia form, and the Bali levy. Citizens of countries that Indonesia treats as visa-free skip the first step but still do the other two, and holders of certain long-stay cards skip the levy. The list of who counts as visa-free is on the immigration site, not in this guide, so check your own passport there.

The amounts above were checked on 3 October 2026. The UK government's Indonesia entry requirements page covers the visa on arrival, the All Indonesia form and the Bali levy on one page and is a useful second source in English. The Love Bali FAQ covers the levy in detail.

Your passport should be valid for at least six months from the day you arrive. The UK page puts it as an expiry date at least 6 months after arrival and at least 2 blank pages, and adds: "You will be denied entry if you do not have a valid travel document." Airlines check passports at check-in, so a short validity usually ends a trip at the airline desk, not in Bali.

The visa on arrival is a 30-day, single-entry visa for citizens of the countries on Indonesia's visa on arrival list. The Directorate General of Immigration's list of visa on arrival countries includes, among many others, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, China, India and most of Europe.

To get one, the UK page says your passport must meet Indonesia's entry requirements and you must have proof of your onward or return journey, and that most of the main airports and seaports issue them. The alternative is to apply online first on the Indonesian immigration website. The UK advice is to apply at least one week before you leave, and it adds a warning worth reading twice: "A visa approved after you enter Indonesia is not valid and you could face penalties for overstaying." If the online visa is not approved before you arrive, you may only be able to get the 30-day visa on arrival.

Who should apply online and who should wait for the airport

Apply online in advance if you want something other than the standard 30 days. The UK page says the online route offers several options, including multiple-entry visas and 60-day visas. That matters for a stay that runs close to a month, for anyone planning a side trip out of Indonesia and back, and for anyone who does not want to spend the first hour of a holiday at a counter.

Take the visa on arrival if your trip is a plain tourist stay of up to 30 days, you are comfortable paying at the counter by cash or card, and you have the return ticket the officer may ask to see. The Directorate General of Immigration's visa pages also include a section on entry points for e-visa holders, so if you are flying into Indonesia through a smaller airport or port, confirm that it handles the document you are buying.

Who should not use a visa on arrival

The UK page is blunt: "The VOA is not suitable for all business activities, volunteering, influencer work, or creating commercial online content." If you plan to create sponsored social media content, work as an influencer, or produce online content for commercial purposes while in Indonesia, the page says you may need a different visa. That includes the remote worker who intends to stay in a Canggu villa for a month and bill clients, and the creator filming paid material. Choose the visa for what you will do, then book flights, because a wrong visa type can lead, in the UK page's words, to "prosecution, detention and deportation at your own cost."

Extending, and what an overstay costs

The 30-day visa can be extended once, for another 30 days, at any immigration office in Indonesia, or on the immigration website if you applied online. Do it inside the first 30 days. The UK page gives the overstay fine as 1 million rupiah a day, with possible deportation and a re-entry ban in the worst cases. For a stay of more than 60 days in total, the realistic route is a longer visa applied for before you travel.

All Indonesia is the national online customs and health declaration. The UK page describes it in one sentence: "Before travelling to Indonesia, fill out the online customs and health declaration on the All Indonesia arrival card website or app within 72 hours of arrival." You fill it in once, save the confirmation and show it when asked.

Use the official All Indonesia portal. The UK page adds that after completing the form you can also use the All Indonesia app to apply for a visa. If a site asks you to pay to submit the form, it is not the official service. Take a screenshot of the confirmation, since airport Wi-Fi and roaming are not always reliable right after landing, and see the connectivity guide for ways to have data working on arrival.

The Bali levy is a provincial charge on international tourists. Love Bali, the provincial government's payment site, names its legal basis as Bali Provincial Regulation Number 6 of 2023, amended by Regulation Number 2 of 2025, and says the money protects Balinese culture and the natural environment.

Pay on the provincial government's Love Bali site. The FAQ lists credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express and JCB), bank transfer, virtual account, UnionPay and QRIS as accepted methods. You enter your passport details and arrival date, and a voucher with a QR code is sent to the email you give, so a typo in that address is the most common way to end up without your proof. The site says that if an email was entered wrongly, payment can be verified from passport data, and it has a resend page for vouchers.

Who pays? Love Bali's answer is "Every international tourist who travels to Bali and do tourist activities." The FAQ lists these exemptions: holders of diplomatic and official visas, crew members on transportation vehicles, holders of a KITAS or KITAP stay permit card, and holders of family unification and student visas. Those holders just show the card to the officer. Golden visa holders and holders of other visas must apply through the Love Bali system. The UK page says the levy is for "all foreign tourists arriving in Bali."

If you travel as a group, the site offers a group payment option. It also states that the levy applies to cruise passengers, who can pay individually or as a group through registered cruise agents.

At Ngurah Rai International Airport, the order is immigration, then baggage, then customs. Have three things ready on your phone: the visa confirmation if you applied online, the All Indonesia confirmation, and the levy voucher. If you have not paid the levy, Love Bali says there are payment counters at the airport and port, which adds a queue after a long flight. If you did not apply for a visa online, you pay at the visa on arrival counter first.

Keep the levy voucher for the whole stay. Love Bali describes registered endpoints such as hotels, travel agents and tourist attractions as places where the levy can be paid during a trip, and an emailed voucher is the simplest answer to any question about whether you have paid. The site also has a page for verifying a voucher.

From the airport, the Bali airport to Canggu and getting around guide covers the next step. If you will rent a private villa, remember the UK page's separate rule: "If you stay in private accommodation in Indonesia, you must register your presence with the local police at the nearest police station," with a possible fine of 5 million rupiah, while hotel guests are registered automatically.

Work in a sensible order, a few days before the flight. Decide first which visa you need, because it is the step that can be refused or delayed. Pay the Bali levy next; it needs only your passport details and arrival date. File the All Indonesia form last, inside the 72 hours before you land, and save all three confirmations in one folder on your phone.

Use the exact name and number in your passport on every form. A typo in one of them can mean a second payment or an awkward conversation at a counter. If you are traveling as a family, each person needs a visa, a levy voucher and a form entry, even though the levy and the form both offer group options.

Check the web address every time. The official addresses end in imigrasi.go.id for the visa and the arrival form, and baliprov.go.id for the levy. The UK page warns that fake visa agents may take your money and fail to provide a visa or supply the wrong one, which "could result in you overstaying and getting a fine of 1 million rupiah a day, plus possible deportation and a re-entry ban."

Plan a payment method that works abroad. The levy accepts only cashless payment, and the levy page notes that additional charges may apply depending on the issuing bank and that the exchange rate shown at payment is the one applied. A card that your bank has not blocked for foreign transactions saves a failed attempt at the counter.

Finally, buy cover. The visa and the levy say nothing about medical costs or scooter accidents, and the travel insurance guides explain what to look for. For a trip that also visits Thailand, Thailand entry rules covers the very different arrival process there.

The pieces that most often confuse travelers are the ones that moved. The levy now rests on Regulation Number 2 of 2025, which amended the 2023 regulation, and the Love Bali FAQ cites a 2025 governor regulation on payment procedures. Indonesia also moved its customs and health declarations into the single All Indonesia form, and the UK page describes the app as able to start a visa application.

No change to the levy amount or the visa fee was visible on the official pages on 3 October 2026. Rules and fees can change without much notice, so check the Love Bali site and the immigration site before you pay rather than relying on an older guide or a social media post.