Do Polish citizens need a visa for Indonesia?
Yes. A Polish passport does not give visa-free entry to Indonesia. Poland is one of the 97 countries whose citizens can use the visa on arrival, and since 2023 that visa 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.
The requirements are the standard ones: 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. The Polish national ID card (dowód osobisty) is not accepted for entry to Indonesia.
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 Polish 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.
A dowód osobisty will not do. The national ID card is not accepted for entry to Indonesia — you need the passport, and the visa is tied to its number.
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
Ł, Ą, Ę, Ś, Ź, Ż, Ó, Ć, Ń in the application form
This is the most common source of trouble for Polish applicants, and it takes two minutes to avoid if you know about it in advance.
The Indonesian visa system works with basic Latin characters only — 26 letters, no diacritics. "Łukasz Wróblewski" will not go into the field, and if the system does accept the characters it will store them incorrectly, so the visa will not match the passport at the border.
The fix is not to invent a spelling but to copy it from the machine-readable zone of your own passport — the two lines of capitals at the bottom of the photo page. Your name is already rendered there in basic Latin to an international standard, in exactly the form the Indonesian officer expects to see.
Open the data page, find the two lines, copy the surname and given name character for character, and take the passport number from the same place — in the machine-readable zone it appears without spaces. Fill the form from the machine-readable zone, not from how you write your name at home. One character out and, as far as the system is concerned, you have no visa.
Who helps a Polish citizen on Bali
The embassy is in Jakarta. On Bali there is an honorary consulate: Honorary Consul Nari Asmiati, Jl. Raya Pengembungan-Bongkasa, Banjar Kutaraga, Bongkasa, Abiansemal, Badung, Bali 80532, +62 816 911 328 (WhatsApp and out-of-hours emergencies included), honcon.pl.bali@gmail.com. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 10:00–13:00; its district is Bali.
The ministry's key caveat: the honorary consulate has no legal functions. It does not issue visas, passports or other official documents — those go to the consular section in Jakarta. Note the location too: Abiansemal is inland Badung, north of Denpasar, not the tourist strip. Around an hour from Kuta.
As an EU citizen a Pole may approach any other member state's mission where Poland is not represented, under Council Directive 2015/637 on consular protection. On Bali the practical address is still Jakarta.
Before travelling, register with the ministry's Odyseusz service — free, five minutes, and it means the ministry knows you are in the country during an eruption, an earthquake or an evacuation.
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 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 Poland
There are no nonstop flights from Poland to Bali. Doha, Dubai or Abu Dhabi from Warsaw and Kraków is the usual choice — one change, about 18–20 hours. Istanbul is often cheapest, with departures from Warsaw, Kraków, Gdańsk, Wrocław and Katowice. Singapore or Kuala Lumpur normally means an extra European connection, but the last leg into Denpasar is only 2.5 hours.
Get the eVOA before you leave Poland: 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.
