Do Italian citizens need a visa for Indonesia?
Yes. Italy is one of the 97 countries whose citizens can use the visa on arrival, and since 2023 that visa is issued online and called the e-VOA. The fee is IDR 500,000, the stay is 30 days, with one extension for another 30.
The Italian foreign ministry states the passport requirement more precisely than most: six months of validity and at least two blank pages, with the document intact — no tears, stains or signs of alteration. The ministry notes separately that travellers have been refused entry over the condition of their passport.
You also need a return or onward ticket with a date on it.
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 that catch Italian travellers out.
The six months are counted from the date printed in your passport. Indonesian officers do not care when it was issued. Look at the expiry date on the photo page and count from there.
The state of the passport is not a formality. The Italian ministry warns about it separately: the document has to be intact — no tears, stains or signs of alteration — with at least two blank pages. People have been refused entry over exactly this.
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
Where the Italian consulate on Bali actually is
Italy does have an honorary consulate on Bali, but not where people look for it: Jl. Padatkarya GSM Kauh 12, Pering village, Blahbatuh district, Gianyar regency, Bali 80581. Honorary Consul Alessandro Tanganelli, +62 813 3868 2100.
Gianyar is east of Ubud — over an hour from Kuta or Seminyak in ordinary traffic, considerably more at peak times. This is not a visit you fit between the beach and lunch.
The second thing to know: the consulate operates under a decree limiting its functions. The full range of consular services is not available there, and for those you are sent to Jakarta — consolare.jakarta@esteri.it, +62 21 3193 7445, with a 24-hour emergency line on +62 815 181 1344.
Before you fly, register at dovesiamonelmondo.it. It is free, and in a country with 120 active volcanoes it is how the ministry reaches you during an earthquake, an eruption or an evacuation.
Yellow fever: the connection trap
Flying direct from Italy, you need no certificate. But Indonesia's rule is written around the route, not the passport: a yellow fever vaccination certificate is required of all arrivals over nine months old coming from a country where the disease is endemic.
The trap is the transfer. An Italian routing through Africa or South America — Addis Ababa on Ethiopian Airlines, for instance — is formally arriving from an endemic country, and may be asked for the certificate.
If your route passes through Africa or Latin America, check the WHO endemic-country list and get vaccinated in advance: the certificate takes effect ten days after the jab, and cannot be backdated.
Rabies and decompression chambers
Rabies. The Italian country sheet lists it among the diseases present, flagged "especially on Bali". The island is genuinely endemic: the carriers are stray dogs and monkeys, including at Ubud's Monkey Forest. A monkey grabbing your sunglasses is not entertainment, it is exposure.
After a bite or a scratch: wash the wound with soap and running water for at least fifteen minutes and get to a clinic for post-exposure vaccination the same day. Once symptoms appear, rabies is untreatable.
Decompression chambers. A line for divers: hyperbaric chambers in Indonesia exist only on Java and Bali. Dive off Lombok, Komodo, Raja Ampat or Sulawesi and the nearest chamber is a flight away — and decompression sickness does not wait.
Which leads to insurance: public healthcare does not serve foreigners, treatment happens in private clinics, and the Italian ministry puts the cost of a medical evacuation from Indonesia at over €100,000. Evacuation cover is not a legal requirement; it is simply the only sensible choice.
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, about 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.
Which airports the e-VOA works at
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.
