Do Monegasques need a visa for Indonesia?
Yes. Monaco is one of the 97 countries whose citizens can use the visa on arrival. You apply for the eVOA online before you fly: the fee is IDR 500,000, the stay is 30 days, extendable once by another 30.
Monaco's own guidance for travellers states the passport rule more strictly than Indonesia does: the passport must be valid for at least six months beyond your intended date of return. Indonesia asks for six months on the date of entry, so the principality builds in a margin covering the whole trip. Follow the Monegasque wording — it is the safer one.
After that it is standard: blank pages, a return or onward ticket with a fixed date, the electronic All Indonesia arrival card (compulsory for everyone since 1 October 2025, opening no earlier than 72 hours before landing) and, on Bali, the tourist levy of IDR 150,000 per person.
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 Monegasque travellers out.
Use Monaco's passport rule, not Indonesia's. Indonesia wants six months' validity on the date of entry; the Monaco government wants six months beyond your intended date of return. The second is stricter and safer, so count from that.
The visa follows your citizenship, not your address. A Monaco residence card counts for nothing at Indonesian immigration: a resident holding an Italian or French passport travels under that country's rules. More on this below.
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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.
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Article 5 of the 2002 treaty, not the EU directive
Do not confuse the two. Monaco is not in the European Union, so EU Council Directive 2015/637 on consular protection does not cover Monegasque nationals. Citing it at another country's consulate gets you nowhere.
A bilateral instrument applies instead. Relations between Monaco and France are governed by the Treaty of 24 October 2002 adapting and confirming the relations of friendship and cooperation between the French Republic and the Principality of Monaco. Its Article 5 deals with diplomatic representation and provides, among other things, that Monegasque nationals may approach a French diplomatic or consular post as needed where Monaco is not represented. The treaty was promulgated in France by Decree No. 2006-17 of 5 January 2006.
This is a treaty rule, not an informal courtesy — and Monaco's own guidance for travellers confirms it: if you run into difficulty abroad, contact Monaco's embassies or consulates, and failing that, the French embassies or consulates.
Translated to Bali: if something serious happens and Jakarta is a flight away, a Monegasque goes to the French. French consular presence on Bali is among the strongest in Europe's networks, which makes this one of the rare cases where the "other country's" consulate is a real option rather than a fallback.
One post in Indonesia, and it is not on Bali
Monaco's diplomatic network is small and there is no embassy in Indonesia. There is an honorary consulate in Jakarta, listed officially by the government of the Principality: honorary consul Ms Karlina Damiri, Jl. Dharmawangsa VII No. 6, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta 12160, +62 816 827 755, consulate.monaco.jkt@gmail.com.
The mirror image is that Indonesia's embassy accredited to Monaco sits in Paris, at 47/49 rue de Cortembert, 75116, with an Indonesian honorary consulate inside the Principality itself.
On Bali, plainly: Monaco has no presence at all. So the sequence in trouble is the honorary consulate in Jakarta as your first Monegasque contact, French consular presence on Bali as the nearest practical help under the 2002 treaty, and the local police as the mandatory first step for any theft or loss of documents.
About the passport itself: it is issued by the Passport Service of the General Secretariat of the Government, in Monaco — ten years for adults (90 euros), five years for children aged three to eighteen (60 euros), three years under three (30 euros). The consequence is worth spelling out: a Monegasque passport cannot be replaced abroad. Overseas your job is to report the loss and get home, not to obtain a new passport on the spot.
Ariane: Monaco has no registration system of its own
Most European states run their own trip-registration service — Odyseusz in Poland, matkustusilmoitus in Finland, Registro de Viajeros in Spain, Travel Admin in Switzerland. Monaco has none, and does not pretend otherwise.
Its official guidance for travel abroad tells Monegasques to register on the Ariane portal, described as an easy and free way to lodge your details with the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. For country advice, Monaco likewise points to the French diplomatic website.
The logic matches Article 5: if help abroad arrives through the French channel, alerts should come from there too. Register on Ariane and you sit on the same lists as French travellers — which is what you want during an eruption, a tsunami warning or an airport closure.
Do it before departure, alongside the eVOA and the arrival card. It takes minutes, and in a country with well over a hundred active volcanoes it is the cheapest insurance available.
A Monegasque is not the same as a Monaco resident
Obvious inside the Principality, almost unknown outside it. According to the census published by the state statistics office IMSEE, on 31 December 2023 Monaco had 38,367 residents, of whom 9,179 — 23.9 per cent — were Monegasque nationals. Residents hold 141 different nationalities; after the Monegasques themselves the largest groups are French (8,473) and Italian (7,515).
Three quarters of the population, in other words, are foreign residents. For a trip to Indonesia that settles everything: the visa follows your citizenship, not your address. A Monaco resident with a French, Italian or British passport travels under that country's rules and turns to that country's consulate. A Monegasque residence card counts for nothing at Indonesian immigration.
Where a family holds different passports — the norm in Monaco rather than the exception — check each person separately. Monaco, France and Italy are all on the visa-on-arrival list, so the eVOA mechanics are identical; the consular line in an emergency is not.
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.
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.
