Permission that fits your plans
Keep your job with a company outside Indonesia. Settle the length of stay first, because a visit permit does not let you work and the longer visa has an income test.
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More than US$61,000 a year: The official eVisa portal lists the E33G visa for employees of companies abroad who work remotely in Indonesia. It asks for a bank account showing salary or income that meets a minimum (to be safe, more than US$61,000 a year) and an employment contract with a company established outside Indonesia. You also give a personal bank statement for the last three months with a balance that meets a minimum (to be safe, hold more than US$2,100). Conversions into your currency use Bank Indonesia's rates of 15 October 2026. The visa costs IDR 7,000,000 and allows up to one year. The portal does not say whether a freelancer's client contracts count.
Sources: Directorate General of Immigration, Bank Indonesia. Checked 15 October 2026.
A visit of up to 60 days
US citizens appear in the portal's tool as eligible for the B1 visa on arrival (IDR 500,000, up to 30 days, extendable once for 30 more) and for the C1 tourist visa applied for online (IDR 1,000,000, up to 60 days), which asks for a three-month bank statement with a minimum balance (to be safe, hold more than US$2,100). The State Department says an e-VOA can be requested in advance for Jakarta and Bali airports and that overstaying costs IDR 1,000,000 a day.
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Every traveller must submit an arrival card within three days before arrival, and tourists pay Bali's IDR 150,000 levy. Both visas bar wages from people or companies in Indonesia. Whether working remotely for an employer abroad is allowed on a visit permit is not stated on the portal. Immigration's list of purposes for changing a visit stay to a limited stay inside Indonesia does not include remote work, and in September 2026 it detained a visa on arrival holder in Canggu on suspicion of working as a DJ. Treat a longer working stay as needing the E33G.
Sources: Directorate General of Immigration, Ngurah Rai Immigration Office, US Department of State, Bali Provincial Government (Love Bali). Checked 15 October 2026.
A year: the remote worker visa (E33G)
The E33G allows up to one year, costs IDR 7,000,000 and must be used to enter Indonesia within 90 days of issue. It needs income or salary that meets a minimum (to be safe, more than US$61,000 a year), an employment contract with a company outside Indonesia and a bank statement with a minimum balance (to be safe, hold more than US$2,100).
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You may not sell goods or services or be paid by individuals or companies in Indonesia. Longer routes exist but are tied to money in Indonesia: the Second Home visa (E33, up to five years, IDR 13,000,000) asks for a deposit in a state-owned bank that meets a minimum (to be safe, hold more than US$140,000) or a property that meets a minimum value (to be safe, aim for more than US$1,100,000); the Silver Hair visa (E33E, aged 55 or older, up to five years) asks for a deposit in a state-owned bank that meets a minimum (to be safe, hold more than US$51,000) and proof of income that meets a minimum (to be safe, more than US$3,100 a month); and the Retirement visa (E33F, aged 55 or older, one year, IDR 7,000,000) asks for income that meets a minimum (to be safe, more than US$3,100 a month) and a guarantor. The portal also lists Golden visa types, whose thresholds were not read.
Sources: Directorate General of Immigration. Checked 15 October 2026.
Documents and timing
For the E33G: a passport valid for at least six months, a recent photograph, a curriculum vitae, a travel itinerary, a bank account that proves income or salary that meets a minimum (to be safe, more than US$61,000 a year), an employment contract with a company established outside Indonesia, and a personal bank statement for the last three months with a minimum balance (to be safe, hold more than US$2,100) showing your name, the period and the balance. You apply online and pay by card or the government payment system; the approved visa is emailed to you as a link.
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The visa must be used to enter within 90 days of issue, and the stay is up to one year. The portal gives no processing time for the E33G and no renewal terms on its page, so both are unknown. The limited stay permit also has a physical card at the immigration office. Submit the arrival card within three days before you fly.
Sources: Directorate General of Immigration. Checked 15 October 2026.
Tax: No social security agreement
Indonesia is not on the Social Security Administration's list of agreements in force. US self-employment tax applies to net self-employment profit even when that income is excluded from income tax.
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Indonesia's public health insurance defines participants to include foreigners who work in Indonesia for at least six months; whether that reaches a remote worker with a foreign employer is unknown. This is a mechanism, not your bill.
Sources: US Social Security Administration, Internal Revenue Service, Government of Indonesia. Checked 15 October 2026.
Setting up: Arrival forms and the Bali levy
Apply for the visa on the official eVisa portal, and submit the arrival card within three days before you fly. Tourists entering Bali pay a levy of IDR 150,000 through the Love Bali site.
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Holders of a KITAS or KITAP are exempt by showing the card; holders of other visas must apply for the exemption through the Love Bali system. Whether an E33G holder arriving on the visa pays the levy before the stay permit is issued is unknown.
Sources: Directorate General of Immigration, Bali Provincial Government (Love Bali). Checked 15 October 2026.
Setting up: Health cover from day one
Medicare does not cover care in Indonesia. The State Department says routine care is available in major cities, that most expatriates leave the country for anything beyond basic procedures, and that doctors and hospitals often ask for payment or large deposits first.
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The US Embassy's list names clinics and hospitals in Kuta, Nusa Dua, Denpasar and Ubud; it has no Canggu entry. Private insurance prices were not found, so that cost is unknown.
Sources: Medicare.gov (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services), US Department of State, US Embassy and Consulates in Indonesia. Checked 15 October 2026.
Setting up: A tax number
A foreign individual registers for an NPWP online with the Directorate General of Taxes, attaching a passport copy and a copy of a KITAS or KITAP, so the number usually follows the stay permit. The annual return is due three months after the end of the tax year, on 31 March.
Sources: Directorate General of Taxes. Checked 15 October 2026.