Bali Entry Requirements: Everything You Need to Know for Your Visit

Authorities in the Badung district of Bali are revising fees for visiting popular tourist sites. Ticket and parking prices at temples, waterfalls, and beaches will rise soon. This is being done to boo…

On July 24, 2025, at Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Jakarta, testing of All Indonesia — a digital declaration replacing four mandatory paper forms: immigration, customs, medical, and quarantine (only for t…

Bali remains the most popular destination among Indonesia’s 17,000 islands, but to boost its development, the authorities are ready to impose stricter conditions for visitors.

The mandatory tax for foreign tourists, which has been in place in Bali for a year and a half, is still only paid by a third of visitors. Out of 5.5 million foreigners who visited the island from Janu…

In January, the Indonesian authorities began discussing changes to immigration fees with a clear target for 2026: to raise 8.5 trillion rupiah. This refers to the money foreigners pay for visas, stay…

The Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series (high dives from great heights with complex acrobatics) will kick off in Indonesia in 2026: the first round of the season is scheduled for 20–23 May and will tak…

On Gili Trawangan (North Lombok Regency), a video of a dispute in a local prayer room (musalla) has been circulating online.

A New Zealand national, Miranda Lee Pearson, said the loudspeaker disturbed her during the nightly tadarus (Quran recitation) in Ramadan and demanded that the noise be stopped.

Gong Xi Fa Cai! — this is the traditional greeting for Chinese New Year. Literally it translates as “congratulations on becoming wealthy,” but in meaning it is a wish for good luck, prosperity, and a…