Bali Travel Requirements 2026: Everything You Need Before You Fly

Before you even book your flight, make sure you've got these sorted:

• A passport valid for at least 6 months from your arrival date, with at least 2 blank pages. Even minor damage or water stains can get you turned away at check in, airlines tend to enforce this more strictly than immigration staff do.
• A return or onward ticket out of Indonesia. You may be asked to show this at check in or on arrival, and it needs to be within your visa's validity window.
• The correct visa for your nationality, whether that's visa-free entry, Visa on Arrival, or a visa applied for in advance.
• The All Indonesia Arrival Card, completed online within 72 hours before you land.
• The Bali Tourist Levy, a separate fee from your visa.

Most travelers, including passport holders from Australia, the UK, the US, and most of Europe, can enter Bali using a Visa on Arrival. It costs around IDR 500,000 (roughly USD 35), covers a single entry, and is valid for 30 days with the option to extend once for another 30 days, giving you a maximum stay of 60 days.

You can either buy this at the airport counter when you land, or apply online in advance as an e-VOA through the official portal at evisa.imigrasi.go.id. Applying ahead means you can use the automated e-gates at Ngurah Rai Airport instead of queuing at the visa counter, which is worth doing if you're arriving on a red eye with a long immigration line ahead of you.

Not every nationality qualifies. If your country isn't on the eligible list, you'll need to apply for a different visa type before you travel, not at the airport.

This one trips up a lot of first time visitors because it's relatively new. It replaced the older, separate immigration, customs, and health declaration forms with a single digital form that covers all three.

Complete it online within 72 hours before your flight lands through the All Indonesia Arrival Card portal, and keep the QR code you receive, since you may need to show it at immigration. It applies to every international arrival, including children and infants. If you land without having filled it out, you can usually still do it at the airport, but expect to lose time you didn't need to lose.

Separate from your visa entirely, the Bali Tourist Levy is a flat IDR 150,000 (about USD 10) charged to every foreign visitor. It goes toward environmental protection and cultural preservation projects across the island.

Pay it online before you travel through the official Love Bali portal, or at a counter when you land at the airport. Either way, keep your QR code confirmation, since it may be checked separately from your visa documents.

If you're planning to rent a scooter or car while you're here, and a lot of travelers do, you'll need both your home country driving license and an International Driving Permit (IDP). Local traffic police have been enforcing this more consistently over the past couple of years, and riding without one can invalidate your travel insurance if you're in an accident, on top of any fine.

Get your IDP sorted in your home country before you fly. It's not something you can arrange after arrival.

If 60 days isn't enough, you're not stuck. Longer stay options exist for tourism, business, remote work, or retirement, each with its own sponsor and documentation requirements. As of mid 2025, extending any visa or stay permit requires an in person visit to a local immigration office for biometric verification, so budget time for that if you're planning to extend past your initial 30 or 60 days.

Because these rules shift fairly often, and the requirements depend heavily on your specific nationality and purpose of stay, it's worth checking your situation against the official immigration site or a licensed visa agent shortly before you travel rather than relying on what a blog post said six months ago, including this one.

Overstaying isn't a gray area worth testing. Fines run around IDR 1,000,000 per day, and a substantial overstay can lead to detention, deportation, or a ban on re-entering Indonesia for a set period. If you're close to your visa expiry and unsure whether you'll make your flight, deal with it before the deadline, not after.

• Currency limits. Bringing more than IDR 100,000,000 (roughly USD 5,900) in or out of Indonesia needs to be declared.
• Restricted medications. Some common prescriptions, including certain ADHD medications, and anything containing cannabis or CBD, are illegal in Indonesia regardless of your home country's rules. Check before you pack your pharmacy bag.
• Travel insurance. Not a formal entry requirement, but hospitals in Bali often expect payment upfront, and facilities outside the main tourist areas can be limited. Worth sorting before you land, not after something goes wrong.

Once your entry paperwork is sorted, the fun part starts. If you want a hand putting together the rest of your itinerary, waterfalls, rice terraces, a Batur sunrise trek, or a custom day trip built around what you actually want to do, that's exactly what we help with at baseBali Tours.

This guide reflects the rules as they stand in 2026, but Indonesian immigration policy has changed more than once in recent years, so double check your specific requirements close to your travel date rather than assuming nothing's shifted since you last read about it.