Denpasar immigration has expelled from Bali a foreigner holding an investor stay permit. During a check he was unable to say what the company whose shares the permit was issued for actually does, or where it operates.
He is a 42-year-old Pakistani national with the initials WH. A patrol stopped him in Denpasar, and on August 24 he was flown out through Ngurah Rai: a Batik Air Malaysia flight to Kuala Lumpur, and from there to Lahore.
Under the immigration law, a foreigner must, when an officer asks, explain who they are and what they are doing in the country. If no answer is given, immigration takes action on its own, without a court — up to expulsion and a ban on entry.
The investor KITAS — in the paperwork it is called an ITAS with the E28A index — is issued for a stake of no less than 10 billion rupiah in an Indonesian company, for one year or two. The threshold was raised from one billion in 2023.
The application must include the company's account statements for the past two months and a personal account holding the equivalent of at least two thousand dollars. Legal Indonesia can help you match the right status to what you actually do and put the documents together.
The check that caught WH is part of an ongoing immigration patrol: since April, a dedicated team of about one hundred officers has been working in Bali, touring the areas where foreigners live and work. In its first three weeks the patrol brought in 62 people for checks; during one week in August, 66 people from 27 countries. Fake investments are among the things the service says it is looking for, alongside overstays and working without a permit.
Immigration is also pursuing cases involving non-existent businesses outside Bali. Near Jakarta, in November 2025, ten foreigners with investor permits were detained, eight of them Pakistani nationals.
The sponsoring companies existed only on paper: there were no offices and no activity at the registered addresses, some were listed at virtual offices, and the notarial deeds were dated on days when the foreigners themselves were abroad. In July the case went to prosecutors, and the defendants face up to five years.
Between January and June 2026, 342 foreigners were expelled from Bali.
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