Indonesia B2 (C1) Tourist Visa: 60 Days per Entry, and Exit Ends It
Quinn Moran · Published
Indonesia's tourist visa, often searched as the B2 visa, formerly coded B211A and now indexed C1, gives 60 days per entry. Extensions granted in Indonesia can take one visit up to 180 days in total. Each extension runs from the end of the permit it extends. The visa is single entry, so leaving Indonesia ends the permit, extensions included. A new entry starts a new 60-day count from its own day one.
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Indonesia's tourist visa is easy to describe and easy to miscount. Many travellers still call it the B2 visa. It gives 60 days per entry, can be extended inside Indonesia until one visit reaches up to 180 days, and ends the moment you leave. Each of those facts changes how the days add up. Most of the trouble comes from treating the stay as a pool of days when it is really a permit tied to one entry.
This post is about that counting: which product sets which clock, how extensions stack, and what leaving does to the total. The full rule, with its official sources, is in the Indonesia B2 tourist visa guide.
Five labels, two products
Indonesia has rewritten its visa index more than once, so the same visa has carried several codes. Many travellers still search for it as the B2 visa. It was formerly coded B211A, and today the single-entry tourist visit visa is indexed C1. The visa on arrival is a separate product, indexed B1. Bought online, it is called the e-VOA.
Without the codes, there are two tourist products:
| C1 tourist visit visa | Visa on arrival | |
|---|---|---|
| Earlier labels | B211A (often searched as "B2") | — |
| Index today | C1 | B1 (e-VOA when bought online) |
| Base stay | 60 days per entry | 30 days per entry |
| Extension | At an immigration office, up to 180 days on one visit | Once, by 30 more days |
| Where you get it | Online, before you travel | At the border or online |
The difference matters for counting because the two products have different ceilings from day one. A 30-day stay on arrival, plus its single extension, tops out at 60 days. The C1 starts at 60 days and can reach up to 180 on the same entry. The multiple-entry D1 visa has its own durations and runs a separate clock; this post does not cover it.
The clock is per entry, not per year
Many day rules on this site use a rolling window or a calendar year, such as so many days in any 180, or in a tax year. Indonesia's tourist permit uses neither. It runs from the day you arrive to the date recorded when you entered. Nothing from before that entry carries into it.
Three mechanics follow:
- The arrival day is day one. A late-night landing at Denpasar still uses a full day of the permit.
- The deadline is a date, not a number. Immigration enforces the permitted stay recorded on your entry at the exit desk. A 60-day permit that starts on 1 March ends on 29 April, not 1 May, because the arrival day counts.
- Your own arithmetic is not the authority. Neither is a booking site's. The visa approval and the entry record set the deadline.
In one way this is simpler than a rolling-window rule: there is no look-back period to reconstruct. In another way it is less forgiving: once the recorded date passes, there is no slack.
How extensions stack on one entry
The C1's 60 days are the starting point, not the limit. Extensions are applied for inside Indonesia, at an immigration office. Each one runs from the end of the permit it extends, so it adds to the existing stay instead of restarting it. That is how one visit can reach up to 180 days in total.
The guide's worked example:
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Arrive on a C1 | 1 June (day 1) |
| First 60-day stay ends | 30 July |
| Extension applied for | Mid-July |
| Extended stay runs to | Late September |
| Overstay starts if no extension is granted | 31 July |
Two parts of the process affect the count. First, extensions start online through the e-visa portal, but since 2025 Indonesian immigration has required anyone extending a stay permit to attend the office in person for photo and interview steps. Second, approval is not instant.
So an extension is a process with its own timeline, and it runs during the last weeks of the permit it replaces. An application started in the final week leaves less room before the recorded date than one started earlier. If the date passes first, every day after it is an overstay day, even while the paperwork is pending.
Each extension is also charged separately, at the published fee for the new stay permit. Fees differ by product and are set by the official immigration fee schedule, so this post gives no figures.
What leaving does to the total
The C1 is single entry. Leave Indonesia and the permit is used up, extensions included. That has two consequences that pull in opposite directions.
First, unused days are not saved. Suppose someone extends their stay to late September and flies to Singapore in August. They cannot come back to the remaining days, because the extended permit ended when they left.
Second, a new entry gets a new 60-day permit. This is why many long-stayers do a run to Singapore or Kuala Lumpur. The guide notes the limit of this: as with any system where officers have discretion, repeated back-to-back entries can attract questions. Immigration publicly stresses its selective policy and its enforcement patrols. A clean day count does not guarantee entry.
For anyone moving around the region, this means several unrelated clocks running one after another. A trip that goes Bali, Singapore, Bali, Thailand uses the Indonesian permit twice, each time from its own day one. It also involves the Singapore visitor rule and the Thailand tourist rule. None of these share days with each other. Keeping them apart is what visa day tracking is for.
When the count runs past the date
Indonesia's overstay rule is itself a day count. It is set under Law No. 6 of 2011 on Immigration, with a threshold at 60 days late:
- Fewer than 60 days of overstay: an administrative fine for every day of overstay, which immigration states as Rp 1,000,000 per day, counted from the first day of overstay. It is normally paid at the airport or an immigration office on departure. Not paying it can itself lead to deportation and an entry ban.
- More than 60 days of overstay: the law provides for deportation and an entry ban. The person can be detained while that is processed.
The fine is charged per day, so every day past the recorded date adds to it. Once the overstay passes 60 days, the outcome is no longer a bill but removal and a ban.
Entry and exit are recorded electronically. Immigration offices, particularly in Bali, run field operations and hotel checks, and publicise deportations. A deportation record also lasts beyond the trip. It makes future entry to Indonesia much harder, and the same goes for visa applications elsewhere that ask about past removals.
Where a day-by-day record fits
Because the Indonesian deadline is a recorded date, the useful question is always the same: what day of this entry is today, and when does the current permit end? A record that starts on the actual landing day answers the first part without any reconstruction.
iReside records which country and state you were in on each calendar day, from your iPhone's location, in the background. It computes the day count for each rule you track from that record, continuously. Its Indonesia tourist tracker counts the 60-day permit plus one 60-day extension, so re-apply the extension in the tracker as each further one is actually granted. The count builds up as you travel, so you never have to rebuild it from boarding passes.
The record exports as CSV or PDF, and each day is labelled with where it came from: GPS, manual entry, or a planned future day. That labelling matters for a rule built around entries, because a planned exit date and the actual exit date are not always the same day. For the wider case for keeping this kind of record, see proving where you were as passport stamps disappear.
The record does not replace the documents. Immigration reads the permitted stay on your entry and any extension approval. The day count shows where you stand against them.
What a day count does not decide
Some questions that come up during long Bali stays are not day-count questions.
One is whether a C1 stay can become residence. The Directorate General of Immigration says the C1 stay permit can be converted into a limited stay permit, part of the KITAS family, when the holder qualifies for one. Qualifying depends on requirements set by immigration, not on how many days have passed. A tourist stay does not turn into residence on its own.
Another is tax. The visa permit and any tax determination are separate rules, and the Indonesian visa guide gives no tax threshold. A day count against the tourist permit does not answer the tax question. Indonesia has its own tax residency test, more than 183 days in any 12 months, and unlike the permit clock, days from repeated entries add up toward it. The digital nomad visa tax trap post uses Portugal to show how a visa permit and a tax count can point in different directions.