Indonesia Visa for Austrian Citizens

Do Austrian citizens need a visa for Indonesia?

Yes. Austria is one of the 97 countries whose citizens can use the visa on arrival, and the convenient way to get it is online — the eVOA. The government fee is IDR 500,000, the stay is 30 days with one extension of another 30, and the visa itself is valid for 90 days from the date of issue, so you can apply well ahead.

The basic requirements are the same as for everyone else: a passport valid for at least six months on the date of entry, blank pages, and a return or onward ticket with a fixed date. Since 1 October 2025 every arriving traveller must complete the electronic All Indonesia arrival card — it replaced the customs, immigration, health and quarantine forms, is filled in no earlier than 72 hours before departure and produces a QR code. On Bali there is also a tourist levy of IDR 150,000 per person, paid once.

What follows is the part general guides leave out and that matters in practice for an Austrian.

What the e-VOA gives you

Point by point: how you apply, how long the visa itself is valid and how long you may actually stay.

1. How it is issued. Entirely online, through the Indonesian immigration portal. You receive a PDF with a number and a QR code. Print it or keep it on your phone.
2. Validity. 90 days from the date of issue. You can enter on any day inside that window, including the last one.
3. Length of stay. 30 days, counted from the day you cross the border. The day you land counts as day one.
4. Extension. Once, for another 30 days. The maximum on this visa is 60 days in one trip.
5. Entries. Single. If you pop over to Singapore for a weekend, the visa is used up and you need a new one to come back.

❗ Planning more than 60 days? Do not rely on the e-VOA. Apply for a C1 tourist visa before you fly. You cannot switch from an e-VOA to a C1 inside Indonesia, you would have to leave the country and apply from abroad.

How the extension works

Start the extension about two weeks before your 30 days run out. Do not leave it to the last day. The application goes in online, then immigration gives you a date to come to the nearest office once, for a photo and fingerprints. The official extension fee is IDR 500,000.

We handle the paperwork and the appointment for you. If you already know you want the full 60 days, take the "e-VOA for 60 days" option in the price list below and stop thinking about it.

What documents you need

The list is short, and most of it is already on your phone.

1. A colour scan or photo of the bio-data page of your passport. It has to be valid for at least 6 months on the day you enter Indonesia.
2. A photo on a plain white background. A phone selfie is fine, no studio needed.
3. The address where you will stay in Indonesia. A hotel booking is enough.
4. A booking for a return or onward flight.

❗ Every child needs a separate visa, including infants. A child cannot travel on a parent's e-VOA.

Two things that catch Austrian travellers out.

The six months are counted from the date printed in your passport. Indonesian officers do not care when it was issued or whether extra months were added to it years ago. Look at the expiry date on the photo page and count from there.

An academic degree does not go on the form. It is printed in an Austrian passport only on request and is not part of your name: the eVOA application and the arrival card take your given name and surname only — no "Mag.", no "Dr.", no "DI".

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Why your Austrian e-card does not work on Bali

This is the most expensive mistake an Austrian traveller can bring to Indonesia. The reasoning "I have an e-card, the European Health Insurance Card is on the back, so I am covered" does not apply in Asia. That is not an opinion — it is the position of the Austrian social insurance system itself.

The official social insurance portal lists where the European Health Insurance Card (EKVK) is valid: EU states, EEA states, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, plus Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. Indonesia is not on that list. There is no social security agreement between Austria and Indonesia.

The wording is blunt: "Bei Erkrankungen in einem Staat, mit dem kein Abkommen besteht, sind die Behandlungskosten selbst zu bezahlen" — in a state with no agreement, you pay the treatment costs yourself.

Then comes the second half of the problem: reimbursement. It exists, but it works against you.

• The amount follows Austrian tariffs, not your invoice. The portal states: "Die Höhe der Kostenerstattung orientiert sich an den geltenden Vertragstarifen der ÖGK" — reimbursement follows the ÖGK contract rates. A private clinic in Bali charges its own prices. You get back what the same treatment would cost under an Austrian contract tariff. The gap is yours.
• The invoice must meet formal requirements and be in an EU or EEA language. An invoice in Indonesian has to be translated. Ask the clinic for an itemised English version while you are still there.
• Transport is not covered at all. Statutory insurance does not pay for medical evacuation. In Indonesia that is the single largest line item: a complex case means a flight to Singapore or Australia, and that is a six-figure bill in euros.

The portal's own conclusion: "Der Abschluss einer privaten Reise- und Urlaubskrankenversicherung wird daher empfohlen" — private travel health insurance is recommended. For Indonesia, treat it as a condition of travel rather than a recommendation.

What the policy needs for Bali: outpatient and inpatient cover with little or no deductible, a separate line for medical evacuation and repatriation, and — this is the one people forget — cover while riding a scooter. Many standard Austrian policies exclude motorbike riding by default. On Bali the scooter is the default way to get around and the default source of injuries.

Do not count on public hospitals. In practice they do not serve foreigners, so the real choice is private clinics, and they work on prepayment or on a guarantee from your insurer.

An academic degree in your passport, and the name on your visa form

Austria is one of the few countries where an academic degree can be printed in the passport. The official government portal oesterreich.gv.at is explicit: entering a degree is optional — "Es besteht keine Verpflichtung, akademische Grade in Reisepässe einzutragen." It can be entered in abbreviated form ("Mag.") or with the field of study ("Mag. rer. soc. oec."). The master craftsman title goes in abbreviated only — "Mst.", "Mst.in". UK degrees have been eligible since 1 May 2024.

The key point: the degree is not part of your name. Surname and given names are entered in the form and order shown on the birth certificate, and the order cannot be rearranged.

What this means for Indonesia. When you fill in the eVOA application and the All Indonesia arrival card, you enter your given name and surname only — no "Dr.", no "Mag.", no "DI", no "Mst.". The same goes for your ticket: the name on the ticket must match the passport, and a title in the booking is one extra string that turns check-in into a conversation.

Second detail: the machine-readable zone. The two lines under your photo use ICAO characters, which have no umlauts and no "ß". Indonesian systems read that zone. So when the form and the passport seem to disagree, go by the personal data line and copy it character by character. Öberhauser on the data page and OEBERHAUSER in the machine-readable zone are the same person — but the form gets the spelling from the data page.

And the obvious one that still catches people: passport validity is counted from the date of entry, not from the date you bought the ticket. Six months is the minimum, and a week of margin will not survive the border.

Auslandsregistrierung: registering your trip

Austria runs its own registration system for citizens travelling abroad — Auslandsregistrierung, available on the ministry website and through the Auslandsservice-App. The government portal recommends registering yourself and your family before departure so the ministry can reach and inform you "in a crisis situation, e.g. in case of political unrest or natural disaster."

Registration is voluntary and changes nothing about your trip. For Indonesia it is still worth the two minutes: the country is seismically active, eruptions and earthquakes close airports without notice, and otherwise the embassy simply has no list of Austrians on the island.

The app also carries contact details for every Austrian mission worldwide and for EU consular protection alternatives where Austria has no post. Bali is exactly that case.

Numbers worth saving before you fly:

• +43 501150-4411 — the ministry's round-the-clock crisis line;
• +43 1 90115-4411 — the same crisis service, the number to dial from abroad;
• +43 501150-3775 — Bürgerservice, for ordinary questions about documents and travel.

One thing to read correctly: Austria issues formal travel warnings rarely — only in exceptional crisis situations, such as war or a state close to civil war, where there is a general threat to life. There is no such warning for Indonesia, and the absence of one does not mean the ministry considers the country risk-free. It means the threshold is high. Instead of a colour scale, the ministry offers SMS and email alerts about attacks, disasters and crises in your destination — and those only reach people who registered.

No Austrian consulate on Bali: who helps you

In the European Commission's official consular protection register, Austria has one representation in Indonesia — the embassy in Jakarta:

• Jalan Diponegoro 44, Menteng, Jakarta Pusat, DKI Jakarta 10310;
• +62 21 23 554 005 and +62 811 83 37 90;
• jakarta-ob@bmeia.gv.at;
• languages listed in the register: English and French.

Denpasar to Jakarta is roughly a two-hour flight. There is no Austrian consular office on Bali in that register.

This is where Council Directive (EU) 2015/637 applies: a Union citizen may turn to the diplomatic mission of any other EU member state in a country where their own state is not represented, and must be treated on the same conditions as that state's own nationals. The Austrian government portal says the same in plain words — where Austria is not represented, in an emergency you may contact any other EU member state's mission.

If your passport is lost on Bali, the sequence is:

1. report to the local police — nothing moves without the report;
2. call the ministry's crisis line or the embassy in Jakarta;
3. if you cannot get to Jakarta quickly, approach another EU mission under 2015/637 — understanding that the decision to issue a document is still coordinated with the Austrian side;
4. leave on a document that is good for the journey home only — you cannot continue onward travel on it and you cannot extend your stay with it.

Budget several days for this and do not expect to fly on your original schedule. Note also that the Dutch consulates listed on Bali in the EU register are honorary posts; the scope of what an honorary consulate does varies, and issuing documents on the spot is generally not part of it. Full consular sections of EU states in Indonesia sit in Jakarta.

Getting there from Vienna

There is no nonstop Vienna–Denpasar service. Austrians fly through Middle Eastern or Asian hubs:

• via Doha — Qatar Airways operates nonstop Doha–Bali flights and serves Vienna, so this is a single connection;
• via Dubai, Abu Dhabi or Istanbul — also one connection, comparable total time;
• via Singapore or Kuala Lumpur — the option if you want to break the trip with an overnight stop.

Total travel time with one connection is around seventeen to twenty hours. A practical detail people forget: the eVOA is for entering Indonesia, not for transit — but the check-in desk in Vienna will ask for your visa confirmation and your onward ticket. Have the eVOA printout and a ticket out of Indonesia ready at Schwechat, not at Denpasar.

Your pre-flight checklist

Run through this the night before. These are exactly the things passport control will ask for.

1. Passport valid at least 6 months from the date of entry, with two blank pages.
2. The e-VOA saved on your phone and printed.
3. The All Indonesia arrival card completed and its QR code saved.
4. If you are flying to Bali, the tourist levy paid and its QR code saved.

What is the All Indonesia arrival card?

It is a free electronic form that every traveller arriving in Indonesia has to complete. It became compulsory on 1 October 2025 and replaced four separate documents at once: the immigration arrival card, the customs declaration, the quarantine declaration and the health pass.

You fill it in on the official site or in the All Indonesia app. The window is three days before arrival, and you can also do it on landing, though filling it in before you board is calmer. Once you submit it, a QR code arrives by email. That QR code is what you show at passport control.

❗ The arrival card is not a visa and does not replace one. You need both.

How much is the Bali tourist levy?

IDR 150,000 per person, about USD 9.50. It applies to everyone who does anything touristy on the island, children included, whatever the purpose of the trip.

You pay on the official site or in the Love Bali app. Cash is not accepted, only cards, bank transfer or QRIS. The levy is paid once per trip and any time before you leave Indonesia, but the sensible moment is before departure. Save the QR code you get by email: it is scanned as you walk out of the arrivals area at Ngurah Rai Airport or at Benoa seaport.

Landing in Jakarta and never going to Bali? Then you do not pay it.

What happens if you overstay

The fine is IDR 1,000,000 for every day beyond your permitted stay, and you pay it at the airport as you leave. A long overstay is a different matter and can end in detention, deportation and a ban on returning. Immigration does not accept "I lost track of the dates", so check the stamp in your passport on the day you arrive and set a reminder.

Staying longer than 60 days

Two visas cover almost every case.

The C1 tourist visa gives 60 days and can be extended twice without leaving the country, up to 180 days in total. It needs a local guarantor, and MyVisa.World acts as one.

The D1 multiple-entry visa is valid for 1, 2 or 5 years and gives 60 days on every entry, with no limit on how many times you come and go. It suits people who visit Indonesia several times a year.

Why apply through MyVisa.World

We are officially registered in Indonesia and work with the immigration service directly, without middlemen. Your application is checked by a person before it is submitted, so a blurred passport scan or a photo with a shadow on the face does not turn into a refusal a week later.

Standard processing is 2 days. If you are flying tomorrow, the express service submits your application ahead of the queue and the visa usually arrives within 2 hours. We accept cards issued by any bank in the world.

Write to our visa specialist in chat, send a copy of your passport and a photo, and we will take it from there.