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Updated August 2026

Bali visa: what Australians pay, and the change that is coming

A 30 day visa on arrival costs IDR 500,000, about A$47, and you can buy it online before you fly or at the counter when you land. Immigration has proposed making those two prices very different. Here is where that stands, and what to do about it now.

Yes, Australians need a visa for Bali. Indonesia cut its visa free list to thirteen countries in 2024 and every one of them is in ASEAN, so there is no exemption to hope for and no shorter, cheaper option for a two week trip. What you need is the 30 day visa on arrival, it costs IDR 500,000, roughly A$47, and you can buy it either before you fly or when you land.

Which of those two you choose has never mattered much, because they cost the same. That is the part about to change. Everything on this page was checked in August 2026. Indonesian entry rules have been rewritten repeatedly over the last two years, so confirm anything decisive on the immigration portal at evisa.imigrasi.go.id before you travel.

Not Australian? The page is priced in Australian dollars because that is where most people asking this question are, but the rules below are the same for American, British, Canadian, New Zealand and EU passports. All of them buy the same 30 day visa on arrival at the same IDR 500,000, and the only thing that changes is what your bank charges you for it. The thirteen countries that enter Bali without a visa at all are the ASEAN members.

The route you take

Today

Proposed

e-VOA, bought online before you fly
Apply at least 48 hours before departure
IDR 500,000
about A$47
IDR 750,000
about A$70
You clear immigration through the automated gates instead of the visa payment queue, which is the whole reason to bother. The friction is the payment page: Australian cards are declined there often enough that leaving it to the night before is a bad plan.
VOA, paid at the counter on arrival
Nothing to do in advance
IDR 500,000
about A$47
IDR 1,000,000
about A$94
Today this costs exactly the same as doing it online and it is a perfectly reasonable choice. Under the proposal it would cost a third more than the e-VOA, which is the point of the proposal: immigration wants the queue shorter.
Anything longer or other than tourism
Weeks, and usually an agent
Priced separately
60 day and multi entry
Not affected
The 30 day VOA covers a holiday and nothing else. Working remotely, staying two months, or entering repeatedly all sit outside it, and all have to be applied for online before you travel rather than sorted out at the airport.

The Proposed column is not in force. It comes from a briefing given by the Directorate General of Immigration on 12 August 2026, and no implementing regulation has been published. Pay today's figures, and check the official portal before you fly.

The fee rise announced in August 2026, and what it would change

It is a proposal, it is not law, and it is the reason the advice on most Bali visa pages is about to go stale.

On 12 August 2026, the Director General of Indonesian Immigration, Hendarsam Marantoko, set out a new pricing structure for the visa on arrival at a briefing in Jakarta. Under it, a visa arranged online before departure would cost IDR 750,000, and one bought after landing in Indonesia would cost IDR 1,000,000. The announcement was covered across the Indonesian national press the same week. The stated reasoning was twofold: the existing IDR 500,000 was considered too low, and splitting the price gives travellers a reason to apply from home and stop filling the arrivals hall.

What has not happened is everything that would make it real. There is no implementing regulation, no published start date and no notice on the immigration portal. The fee you pay today is still IDR 500,000, and anyone quoting you the higher figures right now is quoting a press briefing rather than a tariff.

What the visa costs, and what it does not cover

Three different authorities want money from you before you reach a beach, and none of them accepts a receipt from either of the others.

What you are paying for	Detail	Order of magnitude
Visa on arrival, 30 days	The visa itself, whether you buy it online as an e-VOA or at the counter at Ngurah Rai. Same price either way in August 2026. This page.	IDR 500,000 · A$47
One 30 day extension	Available once, and once only. Handled online for an e-VOA, or at an immigration office in Bali for a counter VOA.	IDR 500,000 · A$47
Bali tourism levy	A provincial charge, not an immigration one. Separate payment, separate authority, separate QR code. Paying the visa does nothing about it.	IDR 150,000 · A$14
All Indonesia arrival card	Free, but compulsory, and it will not open until three days before you land. The one formality you cannot get out of the way early.	Free
e-VOA processing fee	A small charge the portal adds on top of the visa fee when you pay online. It is a few dollars, not a service you can decline.	A few dollars
Longer or multiple entry visas	The 60 day single entry and the multiple entry visas are priced separately and have to be applied for before you travel.	Priced separately

The line that catches people is the second one down from the visa. The tourism levy is not part of the visa and never has been. Immigration collects the visa on behalf of Indonesia; the levy is collected by the province of Bali through an entirely separate portal, and enforcement officers at Uluwatu and Tanah Lot ask for its QR code specifically. Showing them a visa gets you nowhere. The Bali tourist levy guide covers how it is paid, who is exempt and what happens at a spot check.

Add it up and an adult Australian arrives having spent about A$61 before anything else, which is worth knowing when you are budgeting a family trip rather than a solo one. Children on their own passports pay both charges at the full adult rate.

Applying for the e-VOA from Australia

Ten minutes on the official portal, and one deadline that is easy to miss.

The application lives at evisa.imigrasi.go.id and nowhere else. You create an account, choose the B1 visa on arrival, and give it your passport details, your arrival date and a photograph of the passport page. It asks for a booked flight out of Indonesia, which needs to be a real reservation rather than a plan, and an address in Bali, for which the first hotel of the trip is enough. Payment is by card at the end.

The deadline is 48 hours before departure. The portal stops accepting e-VOA applications inside that window, and there is no appeal to it: miss it and you are buying the visa at the counter instead, which today costs the same and simply means queueing. Applying a week out rather than the night before also leaves room for the payment to fail, which happens to Australian cards more often than it should.

What comes back is a PDF by email. Save it to your phone, screenshot it, and do not rely on being able to open an inbox in the arrivals hall. With the e-VOA in hand you skip the visa payment desk entirely and go straight to immigration, where Australian passports can generally use the automated gates.

When it goes wrong

Every airline page tells you what the rule is. This is the part nobody writes down: what actually happens when the rule does not go to plan, and which of these ends a trip rather than delaying it.

The three things that are not the visa

Sorting the visa does not mean you are done. Three more sit alongside it, and one of them stops people at the check in desk in Australia.

Six months of passport validity

Counted from the day you arrive, not from today, and checked by the airline before Indonesia ever sees it. This is the one that ends trips at the departure gate. Damaged passports are refused just as firmly, so a torn laminate or a water stained page is worth replacing before you book.

The Bali tourism levy

IDR 150,000 a head to the province, once per trip, paid through its own portal and checked at the famous sites rather than at the border. The levy guide has the exemptions and what an officer does at a spot check.

The All Indonesia arrival card

Free, compulsory, and locked until three days before you land. The arrival checklist puts all four formalities in the order they happen, with the window for each.

Travel insurance is not a visa requirement, and that is not the point

Indonesian immigration will not ask to see a policy, so nothing here is a condition of entry. The reason it belongs on a visa page is that this is the moment people are doing paperwork, and it is the last moment before the trip when anyone thinks about it at all.

Two things push Bali up the list of places worth being covered for. The first is scooters. Most Australian policies exclude motorcycle injuries unless you hold a licence valid for the bike at home and wear a helmet, and the standard Bali scooter hire arrangement fails that test for a large share of the people who take it. Reading that clause before you rent is worth more than any amount of comparison shopping afterwards.

The second is that serious treatment usually means a medical evacuation to Singapore or back to Australia rather than care in Denpasar, and that is the bill that runs into six figures. Everyday problems are cheap in Bali. The rare bad day is not.

Paperwork done

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Bali visas: the questions people ask

Answers as at August 2026. Indonesian entry requirements change more often than most destinations, so confirm anything decisive on evisa.imigrasi.go.id before you fly.

Do Australians need a visa to enter Bali?

Yes. Indonesia cut its visa exemption list to thirteen countries under Presidential Regulation 95 of 2024, and all of them are in ASEAN, so an Australian passport does not qualify. You need a 30 day visa on arrival costing IDR 500,000, about A$47, which you can buy online as an e-VOA before you fly or pay for at the counter when you land. Checked August 2026, and Indonesian entry rules change often enough that it is worth confirming on evisa.imigrasi.go.id before you travel.

Is it better to apply for a Bali visa online or at the airport?

Today the two cost the same, so the only thing you gain online is skipping the visa payment queue and clearing immigration through the automated gates. That is worth something after an overnight flight and nothing at all if you land rested. What changes the answer is the fee rise immigration proposed in August 2026: it would price the e-VOA at IDR 750,000 and the counter VOA at IDR 1,000,000, making the airport route a third more expensive. It is not in force and has no start date, but it is the direction of travel.

How much is a visa for Bali in AUD?

IDR 500,000, which is roughly A$47 at the August 2026 rate, plus a small processing fee if you pay online. Children on their own passports pay the same as adults, so a family of four is around A$188 in visas alone. On top of that sits the Bali tourism levy at IDR 150,000 a head, about A$14, which is a separate charge to a separate authority.

What is the best website for applying for a Bali visa?

evisa.imigrasi.go.id, run by the Indonesian Directorate General of Immigration, and nothing else is official. Search results for Bali visa are full of agencies that will file the same form for you and add a service fee, and some are legitimate businesses doing real work for people with complicated cases. For an ordinary 30 day holiday visa you are paying someone to fill in a form you could fill in yourself in ten minutes. If a site quotes you well above IDR 500,000 for a standard VOA, you are looking at a middleman.

How long can I stay in Bali on a visa on arrival?

Thirty days, counted from the day you land rather than in calendar months, extendable once by another thirty. That gives a maximum of sixty days on this visa, and there is no second extension. If you already know you want longer than a month, the 60 day single entry visa applied for from Australia before you leave is cleaner than arriving on a VOA and extending it in Bali.

Do I need a visa for a two week holiday in Bali?

Yes. There is no short stay exemption and no shorter, cheaper option for a two week trip. The 30 day visa on arrival is the entry level product and you pay the full IDR 500,000 whether you stay three days or twenty nine.

Do I need proof of onward travel to get a Bali visa?

Yes, and it is checked more often at the airline counter in Australia than by Indonesian immigration. You need a booked flight out of Indonesia, whether that is home or onward to somewhere else, and it needs to fall inside the period your visa allows. One way tickets to Bali on a visa on arrival get people refused at the check in desk before they fly, rather than turned back in Denpasar.

Can I extend a Bali visa on arrival?

Once, by thirty days. If you bought an e-VOA online, the extension is done through the immigration system online. If you paid at the counter on arrival, it has historically meant going to an immigration office in Bali in person, which in practice means around three visits over a fortnight rather than one appointment. Start the process about a week before your first thirty days expire, because leaving it to the final days removes any room for something going wrong.

What happens if you overstay in Bali?

A short overstay is charged per day and settled at the airport before you are allowed to check in for your flight home. It is expensive and irritating rather than dangerous. A long overstay is a different matter and can bring deportation and a ban on returning, which is not a risk worth carrying to save a trip to an immigration office. Treat the date on the stamp as the date.

Is the Bali visa the same as the tourist levy?

No, and confusing them is the single most common mistake in this whole subject. The visa is a federal immigration charge of IDR 500,000 that gives you the right to be in Indonesia for thirty days. The tourism levy is a provincial charge of IDR 150,000 that funds cultural and environmental programmes in Bali specifically. You pay both, through different systems, and a receipt for one proves nothing about the other.

Bali visa: what Australians pay, and the change that is coming

The fee rise announced in August 2026, and what it would change

What the visa costs, and what it does not cover

Applying for the e-VOA from Australia

When it goes wrong