Bali Digital Nomad Visa (E33G): How to Apply, and What It Allows

No regulation we read says whether remote work for a foreign employer is allowed on a tourist visa or on visa-free entry. The ministerial decision that lists what each visa permits, Kepmen Imipas M.IP-08.GR.01.01 Tahun 2025, names it neither as a right nor as a prohibition of either. One index in its 80 pages describes the activity at all: E33G, the remote worker visa.

So the E33G is the only visa written for the job, and the state sells it directly. Of the six pages ranking for this query in US results on 10 September 2026, four send the reader to a visa agency and two to a product of their own. This page ends at the government's portal.

Applying, step by step

The regulation has the traveller file alone. Pasal 63 ayat (1) of Permenkumham 22/2023 says the application is diajukan oleh Orang Asing melalui aplikasi, submitted by the foreigner through the online application, and the Directorate General of Immigration's E33G page adds Anda tidak membutuhkan penjamin/sponsor: no sponsor. Start from that page, at imigrasi.go.id/wna/daftar-visa-indonesia/E33G. It sends the application to the online visa system: Anda harus memiliki akun di evisa.imigrasi.go.id sebelum mengajukan visa… Anda dapat mengajukan visa setelah login di evisa.imigrasi.go.id. An account first, then the application, once logged in.

What to prepare, from Pasal 63 and the portal:

• a passport valid for at least six months, paling singkat 6 (enam) bulan, huruf a;
• proof of salary or income of at least US$60,000 a year, the immigration guarantee of ayat (2);
• proof of living costs, huruf c, which the portal turns into three months of bank statements showing at least USD 2,000 (rekening koran 3 bulan terakhir … minimal USD $2000);
• a recent colour photograph, huruf d;
• proof of an employment contract with a company that is a legal entity outside Indonesia, ayat (3).

Then the sequence, as the portal and the regulation set it:

1. Apply and pay. The E33G page gives processing as five working days after the payment is received.
2. Travel within 90 days. Masa berlaku visa adalah 90 hari sejak diterbitkan: the visa is valid for 90 days from issue.
3. At the arrival checkpoint the stay permit, the ITAS, is issued secara otomatis, per the same page.
4. The permit lasts at most one year: paling lama 1 (satu) tahun, Pasal 105 ayat (10) huruf e, as rewritten by Permenkumham 11/2024.
5. To stay on, extend. Pasal 112 ayat (1): Izin Tinggal Terbatas dapat diperpanjang. The portal routes it online through evisa.imigrasi.go.id. Pasal 112 ayat (3) sends it to the immigration office covering where you live, and Pasal 114 ayat (1) has that office's head grant up to one year.

A visa agency does not change any of these steps. One agency ranking for this query gives its processing time as up to 14 or 7 business days, which is its own service time, not the five working days the portal states.

Extensions stop at six years

Pasal 113 ayat (1) of Permenkumham 22/2023 sets the limit for every limited-stay permit whose first grant is under five years:

Orang Asing dengan Izin Tinggal pertama di bawah 5 (lima) tahun dapat diberikan perpanjangan Izin Tinggal Terbatas untuk jangka waktu tidak melebihi jangka waktu pemberian Izin Tinggal Terbatas pertama dengan ketentuan keseluruhan Izin Tinggal Terbatas tidak lebih dari 6 (enam) tahun.

The E33G's first permit is at most one year. Each extension is therefore at most one year, and the limited-stay permits together may not pass six years. Both are ceilings, and dapat diberikan means an extension may be granted, not that it must be. Ayat (5) lifts the limits only for a holder who has changed activity type. Neither Permenkumham 11/2024 nor Permen Imipas 3/2025 touches the article.

Each renewal repeats the test. Pasal 115 ayat (1) applies the visa requirements of Pasal 34 sampai dengan Pasal 66, a range that includes Pasal 63, to extensions secara mutatis mutandis. The adjustments in ayat (3) drop the minimum passport validity and, at huruf b, the proof of living costs: tidak mensyaratkan bukti memiliki biaya hidup. They leave the US$60,000 income guarantee and the contract with a company abroad in place.

Wise and EY print "renewable once, two years in all", and one Bali agency says the permit cannot be renewed. Neither cites an instrument, and the regulation says otherwise on both counts.

The BPK status page, read on 10 September 2026, gives Permenkumham 22/2023 as Berlaku, in force, amended by Permenkumham 11/2024 and revoked by Permen Imipas 3/2025 at Pasal 43, 45 and 52 to 55 only.

What the state charges

The E33G page prices a one-year stay at Rp.7.000.000,- and breaks it into four lines. Each matches a tariff in Lampiran III of PP 45/2024, the regulation on non-tax state revenue:

These are fixed tariffs in rupiah, read on the page images of the PP on 10 September 2026. Anything paid above Rp 7,000,000 is not a state fee. The agency that prices the visa at Rp 12,750,000 to Rp 19,250,000 never separates out the state's share.

The Rp 150,000 Bali tourist levy is a separate provincial charge. Whether an E33G holder is exempt on the first arrival is not settled; see the last section.

Every number, and what kind of number it is

The page ranking first for this query describes the remote worker permit as five to ten years with a Rp 2,000,000,000 deposit. Pasal 105 ayat (10) huruf e gives one year, and neither Pasal 63 nor the DGI page asks for a deposit.

What the E33G allows, and what it forbids

It is legally a second-home visa. Pasal 33 ayat (2) huruf j of Permenkumham 22/2023, as rewritten by Permenkumham 11/2024, lists five kinds of rumah kedua, and the fifth is pekerja jarak jauh (remote worker) yang terikat hubungan kerja dengan perusahaan di luar Wilayah Indonesia. Hence the official name, Visa Rumah Kedua Pekerja Jarak Jauh.

Its row in the Kepmen annex, page 77, describes the holder as:

Orang asing yang memiliki hubungan kerja dengan perusahaan di luar wilayah Indonesia dan melakukan pekerjaannya di wilayah Indonesia

A foreigner employed by a company outside Indonesia who does that work inside Indonesia. The rights that follow are activity connected to the foreign company; bringing family sepanjang memenuhi ketentuan peraturan perundang-undangan di bidang keimigrasian, where immigration rules are met; entering and leaving while the re-entry permit lasts; and tourism, shopping and visits.

The row's third duty is money: Memiliki biaya hidup yang cukup selama berada di Indonesia, having enough to live on for the whole stay. The statute adds paperwork. Pasal 71 huruf a of UU 6/2011 has every foreigner in Indonesia report a change of civil status, nationality, occupation, sponsor or address to the local immigration office.

The prohibitions are three. No overstaying. Melakukan penjualan barang atau jasa: no selling goods or services. The A1 and B1 rows qualify that ban with secara langsung, directly, and the E33G row does not; the Directorate General's E33G page does, with terkecuali diperlukan dalam pekerjaannya, except where the work requires it. And no activity outside the index unless a filing for a dual or changed activity has been made.

It is not a work permit. Its right is work connected to a company abroad, and working for an Indonesian employer belongs to a different index.

Whether a freelancer qualifies is open. Pasal 63 ayat (3) asks for a contract with perusahaan yang berbadan hukum diluar Wilayah Indonesia, a company with legal personality abroad. The portal's wording, Perjanjian kerja dengan perusahaan yang didirikan di luar Wilayah Indonesia, is no clearer about contracts with several clients.

The neighbouring indices are not substitutes. The E33 second-home visa gives a first permit of up to five years for Rp 13,000,000, against a commitment of at least US$130,000 in a state bank (Pasal 56 ayat (2)) or a US$1,000,000 apartment within 90 days. E33E and E33F are for applicants aged 55 or more with at least US$3,000 a month; E33F runs one year for Rp 7,000,000. E28A, the investor visa, needs a sponsor. None of them is described as work for a company abroad: the phrase jarak jauh occurs once in the annex, at E33G.

Remote work on a tourist visa or visa-free entry

The Kepmen annex gives each index a list of rights and a list of prohibitions. For visa-free entry (A1), the rights are tourism and visits, events, business meetings and purchases, negotiating and signing agreements, site visits and medical treatment. For the C1 visit visa, they are tourism, shopping and visits, events, and crew signing off. Remote work for an employer abroad is on none of the rights lists, the Visa on Arrival (B1) included. It is on none of the prohibition lists either. The nearest prohibition, on all three, reads:

Menerima imbalan, upah, atau sejenisnya dari perorangan atau korporasi di Indonesia

Receiving pay, wages or the like from a person or a corporation in Indonesia. The Directorate General's C1 page says the same in plain words. The immigration statute's own list of visit purposes, Pasal 38 of UU 6/2011 and its elucidation, has no remote-work entry.

Read together, remote work on a visit visa is neither authorised nor expressly prohibited. That is our reading of the rows; no authority has stated it. No official source we read says remote work on a visit visa is permitted. The pages that call it fine as long as the pay comes from abroad are agencies, and none cites an instrument. One lists answering work emails and Zoom meetings as permitted on a Visa on Arrival. No instrument lists either.

Pages that still sell B211A as the option for a month or two are using an index from the classification this Kepmen repealed; the nearest current indices are C1 and D1. Visa-free entry and its thirty days are on the visa-free list; the Visa on Arrival and its sixty are on the extension page.

If an officer reads it differently

The statute has two tracks for a stay permit used outside its purpose, and neither names remote work.

The administrative one is Pasal 75 of UU 6/2011. An immigration officer may act against a foreigner who does not respect or obey the law, with no court and no fixed amount. Ayat (2) lists the measures, among them listing for prevention or entry ban, restriction, change or cancellation of the stay permit, a charge, and deportation.

The criminal one is Pasal 122:

Dipidana dengan pidana penjara paling lama 5 (lima) tahun dan pidana denda paling banyak Rp500.000.000,00 (lima ratus juta rupiah): a. setiap Orang Asing yang dengan sengaja menyalahgunakan atau melakukan kegiatan yang tidak sesuai dengan maksud dan tujuan pemberian Izin Tinggal yang diberikan kepadanya; b. setiap orang yang menyuruh atau memberikan kesempatan kepada Orang Asing menyalahgunakan …

Up to five years and up to Rp 500,000,000, for a foreigner who deliberately misuses a stay permit or acts outside its purpose. Both figures are maxima. Huruf b reaches the other side: anyone who instructs or enables the foreigner. UU 63/2024 amended the statute in 2024 and left both articles alone. Overstaying, the first prohibition in every row, is priced separately on the overstay page.

Switching from a tourist visa inside Indonesia

Pasal 163 of Permenkumham 22/2023 allows a visit stay permit to become a limited-stay permit, then excludes two groups:

dikecualikan bagi: a. pemegang Izin Tinggal Kunjungan yang berasal dari Visa kunjungan saat kedatangan; b. pemegang Izin Tinggal Kunjungan yang berasal dari bebas Visa kunjungan

Holders who came in on a Visa on Arrival, and holders who came in visa-free. Permenkumham 11/2024 left the article untouched. Pasal 164 huruf i lists rumah kedua among the eligible activities; applying that to the E33G, a sub-type of it, is our reading. The C1 page is consistent: a C1 dapat dikonversikan menjadi Izin Tinggal Terbatas. One Bali agency sells a "within Indonesia" E33G and asks for an existing visa with 30 days left, which fits a C1 and does not fit a Visa on Arrival.

For the Visa on Arrival, the same regulation also points the other way. Permenkumham 11/2024 inserted Pasal 94A, whose ayat (1) grants a visit stay permit rangka peralihan Izin Tinggal Keimigrasian, for the transition between stay permits, on an application made dari dalam wilayah Indonesia. Ayat (2) huruf a names the first eligible group: Orang Asing pemegang Izin Tinggal Kunjungan yang berasal dari Visa Kunjungan Saat Kedatangan. Pasal 86A gives that permit at most 60 days, tidak dapat diperpanjang. The portal's B1 page is describing this route when it says a VOA dapat dialihkan menjadi izin tinggal lain melalui mekanisme bridging visa.

So Pasal 163 ayat (2) huruf a excludes the Visa on Arrival holder from changing status in-country, and Pasal 94A builds a transition for exactly that holder. Neither article says which prevails, and neither says whether the transition can end at an E33G. For a Visa on Arrival, the answer is unresolved inside the regulation itself.

Visa-free entry is not in that position. Pasal 94A ayat (2) does not name it, so huruf b of Pasal 163 ayat (2) stands alone, and a traveller who entered visa-free applies from abroad.

Tax

This page does not advise on tax. The claim that the remote worker visa means tax-free living is widely repeated online and traces to a 2022 announcement; we found no instrument exempting E33G holders from income tax.

The income tax law, Pasal 2 ayat (3) huruf a as worded by UU 36/2008, makes an individual a domestic taxpayer on any of three tests: residing in Indonesia, being present more than 183 days in 12 months, or being present in a tax year with the intention to reside. The third needs no 183 days. Later amendments to the law, UU 7/2021 and UU 6/2023, were not read for this article.

What we could not establish

• The instrument behind the US$2,000. Pasal 63 ayat (4) delegates the living-cost amount to the Director General. The Ngurah Rai immigration office's 2026 service standard lists, as item 6 of its Dasar Hukum, Keputusan Direktur Jenderal Imigrasi Nomor IMI-943.GR.01.01 Tahun 2024 Tentang Besaran Biaya Hidup Bagi Orang Asing/dan atau Keluarganya … sebagai Syarat Permohonan Visa Kunjungan dan Visa Tinggal Terbatas. We have not read that decision, so the amount on this page is the portal's.
• The Visa on Arrival route. Pasal 163 ayat (2) huruf a and Pasal 94A ayat (2) huruf a point opposite ways for the same holder, and no text we read settles which applies or whether the 60-day transition permit can lead to an E33G. The bridging permit's filing window is read on the extension page.
• The levy class on first arrival. Perda 2/2025 Pasal 4A exempts KITAS holders (huruf b) and holders of other visas (huruf g), who must apply five days ahead under Pergub 2/2024 Pasal 7. The E33G permit is issued at the checkpoint, so on the first arrival the traveller holds a limited-stay visa, not yet a KITAS. Which class applies is not settled by anything we read; Love Bali or the Bapenda would have to say. The categories are on the tourist levy page.
• Which visa family members hold. The E33G row lists bringing family as a right; the family's own index was not established.
• The Kepmen's first day in force. It took effect 30 days after 2 May 2025, which is 1 June by our count; press summaries give 2 June. We did not find it on peraturan.bpk.go.id, and a later Kepmen could replace it without appearing there.