Visa information

Indonesia offers three named routes in the 2026 guide: the Second Home visa, the Remote Worker (E33G) visa, and the Retirement KITAS for over-55s, with a Golden Visa for investors named among its schemes. The guide scores Indonesia 66/100 for visa and bureaucracy, and its paperwork stages run from about six to ten weeks depending on tier. This page covers Indonesia only, from Indonesia's own guide — Bali is a separate site entry with its own guide.

The routes the guide names

Second Home visa (5–10 years) — listed on proof of funds.

Remote Worker (E33G) visa — the route for remote workers (see the income test below).

Retirement KITAS for over-55s — the retirement route (see the Retirement page for the retiree-specific costs).

The guide's schemes list adds a fourth name, a Golden Visa for investors, without giving an investment amount or eligibility rules in either source.

The funds and income tests — what the sources actually say

For the Second Home visa, the visa list says only “on proof of funds”; the guide's schemes list quantifies it as 5–10 years on ~$130k funds, and the site data carries the identical line. Treat ~$130k as the guide's planning figure for that route.

For the Remote Worker (E33G), the guide gives both a duration and an income test: 1 year on $60k/yr income, and it adds that foreign income is untaxed on this route (see Tax & Legal).

For the Retirement KITAS, neither source states an income or funds threshold — only the age test, over-55s. This page does not invent a financial threshold for it.

At the guide's exchange rate of $1 ≈ Rp16900, dollar figures convert at roughly that rate for planning.

What the paperwork costs — plan budgets, not government fees

The guide does not list individual government visa fees. What it gives is a bundled “Visa, permits & translations” budget line in each move plan, and those lines are the only sourced cost figures for the application itself:

• $650 — Affordable plan (you file yourself)
• $900 — Mid-range and Retirement plans
• $2,200 — Luxury plan (the plans note the luxury tier adds an immigration lawyer)

The Retirement plan carries one further, separate line: $1,700 for “Retirement visa, lawyer & pension certification”, covering an immigration lawyer, apostilled pension letters, medicals and translations.

Application steps and timelines, by tier

The guide builds the application into each plan's timeline rather than printing a single step list. The common sequence across the plans and checklists is:

• Choose the route first and print its requirements; the Affordable checklist starts with “Visa route chosen and requirements printed.”
• Gather and legalise documents — apostilles and translations are named in every tier; the Retirement paperwork stage adds pension or income letters certified and apostilled, a police certificate, a medical, and birth and marriage certificates translated.
• Check your passport — the Affordable checklist requires a passport valid 18+ months.
• Arrange health insurance before you file (see the Hospitals page for the guide's first-year insurance budgets).
• File — yourself on the Affordable tier, or with a lawyer or agent on the Mid-range, Luxury and Retirement tiers.

Paperwork-stage durations in the guide: ~10 weeks filing yourself (Affordable), ~8 weeks with a lawyer or agent filing (Mid-range), ~6 weeks with a lawyer filing everything (Luxury), and ~14 weeks for the Retirement paperwork stage. After the move, the settle stage includes registering your address and opening a bank account.

Renewals and longer stays — the honest limit of the guide

The durations the guide does state are the Second Home visa's 5–10 years and the Remote Worker (E33G) visa's 1 year. Neither the guide nor the site data gives renewal intervals or conditions for any route, a renewal rule for the E33G, or a pathway from any of these routes to permanent residence — so this page does not state them. Confirm renewal and long-stay terms with an immigration lawyer or the embassy before you rely on them; the Retirement plan's lawyer line exists for exactly this kind of question.

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