Do French citizens need a visa for Indonesia?
Yes. France is one of the 97 countries whose citizens can use the visa on arrival, and since 2023 that visa is issued online as the e-VOA. A French passport gives no visa-free entry to Indonesia.
The standard requirements: a passport valid for at least six months on the date of entry, blank pages, and a return or onward ticket with a date on it. The national identity card (carte nationale d'identité) is not enough — it has to be a passport.
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.
- 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.
- Validity. 90 days from the date of issue. You can enter on any day inside that window, including the last one.
- Length of stay. 30 days, counted from the day you cross the border. The day you land counts as day one.
- Extension. Once, for another 30 days. The maximum on this visa is 60 days in one trip.
- 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.
- 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.
- A photo on a plain white background. A phone selfie is fine, no studio needed.
- The address where you will stay in Indonesia. A hotel booking is enough.
- 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 worth remembering.
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.
A national ID card will not do. The carte nationale d'identité is not accepted for entry to Indonesia — you need a passport.
Send everything to our specialists in chat. If you have not booked the return flight yet, say so and we will help.
Price and processing time
All prices include the Indonesian government fee and our service charge. We accept cards issued by any bank in the world. The express option means your application goes in ahead of the queue within two business hours of payment.
Express service
Who helps a French citizen on Bali
France has a consular agency on Bali — a step above an ordinary honorary consulate, and the difference is practical.
Griya Abasan 18, Padangsambian Klod, Denpasar Barat, Bali 80117. Honorary Consul Marc Le Moullec, +62 811 39601401, denpasar@agenceconsulaire.fr, Monday to Friday 13:00–17:00. France runs three such agencies in Indonesia: Bali, Surabaya and Makassar.
What it will do: hand over a finished biometric passport or ID card, brought down from Jakarta so you do not have to travel for it; issue a certificate of life and a residence certificate; certify copies of documents.
What it will not do: draw up notarial deeds; create or transcribe civil status records such as marriages and births; take a visa application; register you to vote; advance money; or accept a declaration of loss or theft of a document.
Remember that last one. Lose your passport on Bali and the Denpasar agency cannot replace it — the declaration and the emergency travel document go through the embassy in Jakarta. First step is a report to the local police, second is a call to the embassy, not a drive to Padangsambian.
Register with Ariane before you fly
The French Foreign Ministry runs Ariane, a free trip registration service: you file your dates, route and contact details, and in a crisis — an eruption, an earthquake, an evacuation — they can reach you. Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, and eruptions at Agung and Lewotobi have closed Denpasar airport for days at a stretch in recent years.
It takes five minutes and it makes particular sense if you are going beyond Bali, to Java, Flores or Lombok.
A few short points
Papua. Like other European foreign ministries, the Quai d'Orsay strongly advises against travel to the Indonesian provinces of Papua. Bali, Java, Lombok and Flores are outside that advice.
Aceh. Sharia law applies in the north of Sumatra, foreigners included. Bali is Hindu and has nothing of the kind.
Rupiah only. Payments inside Indonesia are made in the local currency, a requirement of the central bank; euros are not accepted anywhere.
Your pre-flight checklist
Run through this the night before. These are exactly the things passport control will ask for.
- Passport valid at least 6 months from the date of entry, with two blank pages.
- The e-VOA saved on your phone and printed.
- The All Indonesia arrival card completed and its QR code saved.
- 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, around US$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.
Getting to Indonesia from France
There are no nonstop flights from France to Bali. The working routes are Doha, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Singapore or Istanbul; from Paris the trip is 17 to 20 hours with one change. From Lyon, Marseille, Nice or Toulouse, add a second connection either within Europe or at the same Gulf hub.
The e-VOA works at the designated international entry points, and every airport a tourist would realistically use is on that list. Denpasar, Jakarta, Surabaya, Batam and the rest.
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.
