Indonesia Digital Nomad Visa

The specific condition for the E33G category is a bank account evidencing income, in the form of salary or other income, worth at least US$60,000 per year, together with a work agreement with a company established outside the territory of Indonesia. That is the first figure.

The second sits in the general documentation and serves a different purpose: proof of having living costs covered while in Indonesia, by bank statements for the last three months in the name of the foreign national or of a guarantor, in a minimum amount of US$2,000 or the equivalent

The first thing to know about what is granted is that it is not a standalone route: the official name of index E33G is the second home visa for remote workers, making it a branch of the second-home family.

That classification matters because it determines which instruments govern the route, and because it is the reason some consequences — including the tax consequences set out in the tax cell — attach to the whole family rather than to this branch alone.

What is received on entry is two permits rather than one, and both are issued automatically as soon as the officer at the immigration checkpoint grants admission: the limited stay permit and the re-entry permit.

There is no separate application for either once inside the country, which sets this apart from many comparable routes in the region.

The long-term value of the category rests on an attribute the published page states briefly but which repays attention: this stay permit can both be extended and be converted into another class of stay permit.

It is therefore not a dead end — the holder can move onto a different basis of stay as circumstances change, rather than having to leave Indonesia and start again. The duration figures sit in the timing cell, and the money in the capital threshold and other costs cells.

The period of stay is one year, and the stay permit can be extended online through evisa.imigrasi.go.id. But the validity of the visa itself is a different thing: the visa is valid for 90 days from issuance, and if it is not used within that window the foreign national must apply for a new visa in order to enter Indonesia.

The Directorate General of Immigration prints an express reminder that the validity of the visa differs from the period of stay. Processing time is five working days from receipt of payment of the visa fee.

The process at the Directorate General of Immigration has five steps: completeness check, verification of fee payment, profiling and verification, approval, and visa issue. Applications are filed online after creating an account on evisa.imigrasi.go.id.

The limited stay permit and re-entry permit are issued automatically when the officer at the checkpoint admits the holder. While the re-entry permit is valid, the holder may leave and re-enter Indonesia several times.

The stay permit under this category can be extended and can be converted into another type of stay permit.

This category requires no guarantor or sponsor to apply. While the Re-entry Permit remains valid the holder may enter and leave Indonesian territory, and beyond their work may carry out activities connected with tourism or with visiting friends or family.

Three things are prohibited: staying beyond the period of the stay permit; doing work that does not match the stay permit; and selling goods or services, except where that is required by the work itself That the permit can be extended and converted into another class of stay permit is set out in the outcome cell of this table.

The E33G index page is entirely silent on accompanying family and states plainly that the applicant needs no sponsor.

Relatives travel on a different set of indices, and this is a join between two pages of the same agency: from the one-year limited stay permit that E33G confers, a spouse comes on index E31B and a child on index E31E, both of which require the permit holder to act as sponsor.

A spouse must file a marriage book or marriage certificate, and where the marriage took place abroad must show evidence that it was reported to an Indonesian mission; only a lawful marriage is accepted and there is no recognition of an unmarried partner.

A child must file the parents marriage certificate, a birth certificate, and the parent valid stay permit. The remaining two indices run in the opposite direction and are of no use here: E31H covers the parents of a child who holds the permit, E31J covers siblings on the same footing, and there is no index for grandparents.

On money: there is no additional income threshold, since E33G still requires USD 60,000 a year and a three-month balance of at least USD 2,000 whether or not family accompany; but each dependant costs IDR 6,000,000 for one year or IDR 8,500,000 for two, against IDR 7,000,000 for the principal.

One trap to avoid: E31E and E31H carry an exclusion saying they cannot be used to join a golden visa holder as a family dependant, but that exclusion does not reach E33G, because the agency golden visa list names twelve indices and E33G is not among them.

This record carries no age limit for children, because none of the seven index pages states one.

The status this programme grants, whether a visa or a residence permit, does not replace the holder's passport. The holder still travels on the passport of their own country, so the figure below belongs to the Indonesia passport and becomes the holder's only once they are issued a Indonesia passport.

According to the Passport Index of Prosperous Intelligence, on data dated 30 September 2026, the Indonesia passport reaches 68 destinations without applying for a consular visa in advance. The figure combines three forms of entry and does not count an e-Visa that must be obtained beforehand:

It is therefore a measure of how easily the holder travels, not a count of visa-free countries in the narrow sense.

For comparison, on the same source and the same method of counting, the Vietnamese passport reaches 44 destinations. The two lists of destinations do not nest inside one another, so the difference is an indication rather than a list of places newly opened.

Prosperous Intelligence dates its data and advises checking with the destination’s official authorities before travelling.

The official Directorate General of Immigration page for this category contains no instance of the word tax. The list of legal bases the page itself gives contains no tax instrument either.

That list comprises Government Regulation 45/2024, two Ministry of Law and Human Rights Regulations 22/2023 and 11/2024, a ministerial decision on visa classification, and two Ministry of Finance Regulations 9/2022 and 82/2023.

The programme has no tax regime of its own.

The tax-residence line sits in Article 2 of the Income Tax Law.

Paragraph (3)(a) treats as a domestic tax subject an individual who resides in Indonesia, or is in Indonesia for more than 183 days within twelve months, or in a tax year is present in Indonesia and intends to reside there.

Paragraph (4)(a) treats a person neither resident nor present for more than 183 days in twelve months as a foreign tax subject.

Indonesia does have a preferential regime, and it repays close reading because it is at once attractive and narrow.

Article 4(1a), inserted by Law 11/2020, allows a foreign national who has become a domestic tax subject to be taxed only on income received from Indonesia, on two conditions: that the person has certain expertise, and that the regime runs for four tax years from becoming a domestic tax subject.

Paragraph (1b) clarifies that income from Indonesia includes amounts paid outside Indonesia for work, services or activities performed in Indonesia. Paragraph (1c) is an exclusion: the regime does not apply to a person who invokes a double taxation agreement in respect of income from outside Indonesia.

Paragraph (1d) delegates the definition of certain expertise to a Ministry of Finance regulation.

And this is where this cell stops rather than concludes: that regulation, Ministry of Finance Regulation No. 18 of 2021, has not been verified in full at its original source.

According to an interpretive publication of the Directorate General of Taxes, the regulation confines certain expertise to twenty-three job positions, evidenced by certificates, qualifications or at least five years of experience, with an application to the tax office answered within ten working days.

The same publication states that holding a second home visa automatically makes a person a domestic tax subject, because the intention to reside is evidenced by a limited stay permit valid for more than 183 days.

Two things must be said about the standing of that source: it is an interpretive publication rather than the regulation itself, and it carries a notice that the article is the personal opinion of the author and not the position of the institution.

This cell therefore does not assert whether a person working remotely for a foreign company falls within those twenty-three positions — establishing that requires the original text.

Read this cell within its scope: the immigration page covers conditions, fees and duration; the tax law covers tax subject status and the four-year territorial regime for all foreign nationals rather than this category; and the decisive link is a text not yet verified in full at source

The state charge for one year of stay is IDR 7,000,000, and that is the sum of four separate items rather than one: the Limited Stay Visa at IDR 500,000; the Category II Visa Verification fee at IDR 2,000,000; the Limited Stay Permit for up to one year at IDR 3,000,000; and the Re-entry Permit for up to one year at IDR 1,500,000.

The application is filed online once an account has been opened at evisa.imigrasi.go.id, in pdf or JPEG form, comprising a valid national passport with at least six months of validity remaining, three months of bank statements, a recent colour photograph taken within the last year, a curriculum vitae and a travel itinerary.

The legal basis includes Government Regulation No. 45 of 2024 on non-tax state revenue tariffs of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, and Regulation of the Minister of Law and Human Rights No. 22 of 2023 on visas and stay permits