Indonesia Tourist Visa Explained: 60 Days & Extensions

Who needs to read this

Indonesia's C1 tourist visa, the visa formerly coded B211A, is the route for a stay in Bali or the wider archipelago that runs longer than a short holiday, and its 60-day base plus extensions catches out anyone who books a long trip on autopilot. Read this if:

• You're a tourist from the US, UK, EU, Australia, or anywhere else planning a stay of more than a few weeks
• You're a digital nomad basing in Bali on repeated tourist entries
• You're planning more than 60 days and need the extension to actually happen
• You're a frequent regional traveler hopping between Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand
• You've heard about overstay fines and Bali immigration sweeps and want the real rules

How the rule works

The C1 tourist visit visa grants a 60-day visit stay per entry, applied for online before you travel, and it can be extended at an immigration office once you are in the country. The framework sits under Law No. 6 of 2011 on Immigration, with the visa itself defined in the immigration ministry's visa index (the single-entry tourist visit visa is currently indexed C1; the same entitlement carried the B211A and other B2-series labels under earlier regulations, which is the labeling the iReside preset name still uses). The essentials:

• Apply before you fly. The C1 is issued through the official e-visa portal rather than at the border.
• Extensions are the long-stay mechanism. Applied for in-country, they can take a single visit to about 180 days in total.
• The visa is single entry. Leave Indonesia and the permit is spent, extensions included.
• Requirements are minimal: a passport valid at least six months, and a return or onward ticket.
• The visa on arrival is a different product: 30 days per entry, bought at the border or online as an e-VOA, extendable once by 30 more. Use it for short trips, not for a stay you expect to run past two months.

Counting the days

Your stay is counted per entry: the arrival day is day one, and your permit runs to the date recorded when you enter, so a 60-day permit that starts on 1 March ends on 29 April, not 1 May. The mechanics:

• Arrival day counts. Landing at Denpasar late at night still burns day one.
• The recorded date wins. Your visa approval and your entry record define the deadline; recount when you land rather than trusting a booking site's arithmetic.
• Each extension runs from the end of the permit it extends, so the total on one entry builds up to about 180 days rather than resetting.
• Worked example: arrive 1 June on a C1. Your initial stay runs through 30 July. Extend in mid-July and you can remain through late September. Miss the application window and you are overstaying from 31 July.

Resets, extensions, and edge cases

A new entry buys a new 60-day permit, but the extension is where trips go wrong, because it is a process rather than a stamp. What to know:

• Extensions are what take you past 60 days, each charged at the published fee for the new stay permit, up to about 180 days on one entry. Start the process well before expiry; approval is not instant.
• In-person step required. Since 2025, immigration requires foreigners extending stay permits to attend the immigration office for photo and interview, even for extensions that begin online at the e-visa portal.
• Exit and re-enter resets the count, and many long-stayers do a Singapore or Kuala Lumpur run. Like every discretionary regime, repeated back-to-back entries can attract questions; immigration publicly emphasizes its selective policy and enforcement patrols.
• No conversion. A tourist visit stay permit cannot be converted into a long-stay permit; residence routes (work, investor, retirement, the various KITAS categories) need the right visa from the start.
• Different products, different clocks: the on-arrival route gives 30 days and the multiple-entry D1 visa carries its own durations; this page covers the single-entry C1 tourist visa, which is what the iReside preset counts.

Overstays: consequences and enforcement

Indonesia enforces overstays with a daily administrative fine for short overstays and deportation plus an entry ban for long ones. The structure under Law No. 6 of 2011:

• Up to 60 days late: you pay an administrative fine (biaya beban) for every day of overstay at the rate set by government regulation, normally settled at the airport or an immigration office on departure.
• More than 60 days late: the law provides for deportation and an entry ban (penangkalan), and you can be detained while it is processed.
• Detection is systematic. Entry and exit are recorded electronically, and immigration offices, particularly in Bali, run active field operations, hotel checks, and publicized deportations.
• Bans outlast the trip. A deportation record makes future Indonesian entry, and visa applications elsewhere that ask about removals, materially harder.

Staying compliant

The rule is simple; the failure mode is administrative drift, so run the dates like a project:

• Apply for the C1 before you fly. No arrival queue, a longer base stay than the visa on arrival, and the approval document states your terms plainly.
• Diarize day 45, not day 60. That is when the extension process should start, given the in-person step and processing time. iReside's Indonesia B2 Tourist preset counts your days from arrival automatically and warns you while the extension window is still comfortably open. Note the tracker models one 60-day extension at a time — when immigration grants each further extension, apply it in the tracker then, rather than counting on the full 180 up front.
• Keep the paperwork: visa approval, entry record, extension approval. Enforcement conversations go better with documents.
• Use only official channels (evisa.imigrasi.go.id, the airport counters, immigration offices). Agents promising effortless extensions are a known scam and fraud vector.
• Need longer than the extensions allow? Get the right visa before arrival instead of improvising in-country.

Common mistakes

• Booking a long stay on the wrong product. The visa on arrival stops at 30 days plus one 30-day extension; a trip planned around 60 days or more needs the C1 from the start.
• Starting the extension in the final week. The in-person photo and interview requirement means last-minute extensions can miss the deadline, converting a paperwork delay into an overstay fine.
• Assuming the fine is the whole downside. Past 60 days of overstay the outcome is deportation and a ban, not a bigger invoice.
• Confusing visa codes. B1, B2, B211A, C1, e-VOA: the labels have changed across regulatory rewrites. What matters is the product you hold: a C1 tourist stay of 60 days, extendable, or an on-arrival stay of 30 days.
• Treating Bali as exempt. Tourist-heavy areas get more enforcement attention, not less.
• Forgetting the six-month passport rule. Airlines deny boarding for it before immigration ever sees you.