Do Latvian citizens need a visa for Indonesia?
Yes. Latvia is one of the ninety-seven countries whose citizens can use the visa on arrival, and it is issued online as the eVOA. The government fee is IDR 500,000, the stay is 30 days and it extends once by another 30. You apply at evisa.imigrasi.go.id, and the visa is valid for 90 days from the date of issue.
The passport needs at least six months of validity on the date of entry, blank pages, and a return or onward ticket with a fixed date. The All Indonesia arrival card is compulsory and is completed no earlier than 72 hours before departure. The Bali tourist levy is IDR 150,000 per person, once per trip.
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.
One thing catches travellers out more often than anything else.
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.
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
Do you have to tell the state you are going to Bali?
Short answer: no, but it is worth doing. The long answer matters more, because the rules were rewritten at the end of 2025.
Latvia handles travel notification through the Consular Register (Konsulārais reģistrs) at the foreign ministry. The rules in force are Cabinet of Ministers Regulation No. 608 of 14 October 2025, effective from 21 October 2025, and the wording is unambiguous: "Persona ziņas reģistrā sniedz brīvprātīgi" — a person provides the information voluntarily.
So there is no duty to declare a fortnight on Bali, no penalty for staying quiet, and no effect on your visa whatsoever. Indonesia has never heard of the Latvian register.
What you get in return:
- Contact in an emergency. The stated purpose is written into the regulation: so that a consular officer can reach you if something goes wrong abroad. Not "send you a risk notice" — reach you.
- A named contact person. The register holds not only your details but the details of someone in Latvia who can be contacted instead of you. That is precisely what is missing when a traveller is unconscious in a hospital.
- Your insurance details. The register has a field for the policy. If you are in a Balinese clinic and the policy is sitting in an inbox you cannot reach, that field saves an afternoon.
What goes in: name, personal identity code, countries of travel, planned duration, contact details, contact person and insurance information. Registration is free, done at latvija.gov.lv, and requires authentication. One person can register others — a whole family, for instance.
And a privacy detail these systems usually lack: three months after the planned end of the trip the data is anonymised and survives only as statistics. The register does not become a permanent record of who went where.
The ministry addresses the invitation to people going abroad short-term — up to three months. A Bali holiday fits comfortably inside that.
Why Latvia's embassy for Indonesia sits in London
It reads like a typo. It is not. On the EU's emergency consular contact list for Indonesia, Latvia appears as a non-resident state, the address given is 45 Nottingham Place, London, W1U 5LY — the Latvian embassy in the United Kingdom — and the representation column reads Represented by Germany.
Those are two different things, and the difference matters.
London is paperwork. The competent Latvian mission for Indonesia sits in London. Anything requiring a Latvian consular decision goes there and comes back from there. Another hemisphere and eight hours of time difference from Bali — build that into your expectations.
Germany is people on the ground. Under Council Directive (EU) 2015/637 a Union citizen may approach any other member state's mission where their own country is not represented, on the same terms as that state's own nationals. For Indonesia the state is named: Germany. The German embassy in Jakarta is the door a Latvian in trouble knocks on.
On Bali itself Germany has an honorary consul in Sanur: Robert Adrian Jantzen, Jl. Pantai Karang 17, Batujimbar, Sanur, Denpasar 80228, +62 361 288 535 and +62 361 282 009, sanur@hk-diplo.de. His consular district is Bali and Lombok; office hours weekdays 8:30–12:30 by appointment, reachable by phone Monday to Thursday 13:30–16:30.
The sequence for a lost passport: police report first; the German mission on Bali or the embassy in Jakarta second; the Latvian side in London for the decision on the document. It is slower than it would be for a German or a French traveller, and flying out the same day is not realistic. Allow a week.
Latvia does have an honorary consul in Indonesia — the foreign ministry has publicly recognised his work. But he does not appear on the EU consular contact list for Indonesia, and an honorary consul's powers are limited in any case: he does not issue passports. In an emergency, orient yourself towards the German mission and the Latvian office in London rather than hunting for a Latvian sign in Jakarta.
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 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.
Getting to Indonesia from Latvia
There are no nonstop flights from Riga to Denpasar. The usual routing is a single change in Istanbul, Doha or Dubai, seventeen to twenty hours door to door.
Get the eVOA before you leave Latvia: it arrives as a PDF, and you may be asked to show it at the gate for the long-haul flight.
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.
