Visa on arrival?

[Centrals]

High-risk fellow lodgers who are

• Foreign nationals must be fully vaccinated before entering Indonesia
• <>the foreign traveler must present a PCR test result stating that they are free of COVID-19

Out in the wild you are going to do better?

You are not suggesting that all fully vaccinated tourists are FREE of the virus?

 

[Indah]

Being the guarantor of a foreign tourist brings a lot of responsibility and potential problems:
Imigrasi Press Release : THE IMPORTANCE OF INDIVIDUAL OR CORPORATE VISA GUARANTOR FOR FOREIGNERS OVERSIGHT IN INDONESIA (23 Feb 2022)
The return of the Indonesian tourism industry after the Covid-19 virus storm has attracted the enthusiasm of travel fans around the world. Along with this, foreigners from various countries are constantly seeking information about permits to enter Indonesian territory to enjoy the beauty of the archipelago. Questions about Free Visit Visa (BVK) and Visa On Arrival (VOA) keep coming, considering that previously Indonesia provided these two facilities to foreigners from certain countries. However, now prospective foreign tourists must apply for a B211A Tourist Visit Visa with a guarantor classification that has been determined by the government.
“These questions can be understood, because before the pandemic, Tourist Visit Visas did not require a guarantor. However, the Directorate General of Immigration issued a policy that in recovering tourism and the national economy during this pandemic, foreign tourists must be guaranteed by a travel agency or hotel company based in Indonesia," said Director of Immigration Traffic, Amran Aris.
Amran said that his party had socialized and disseminated E-Visa to more than 400 participants in early February 2022 in Denpasar, Bali. The participants of the event are tourism industry players, such as travel agents and hotels. "In addition, the Directorate General of Immigration also involves the Kemenkomarves, Kemenparekraf and the Bali Provincial Government. The socialization aims to make the application for tourist visit visas easily accessible to the general public and not exclusive to certain parties,” he continued.
He emphasized that the stipulation of tourist travel bureaus and hotels as guarantors for Tourist Visit Visa applicants is intended to facilitate the supervision of foreigners. Travel agencies/hotels that register as guarantors have full obligations to monitor the activities and whereabouts of foreigners, starting from the rented rooms to the foreigner's travel plans until the day of his return to his country of origin. They must cooperate with immigration officials to ensure foreign tourists do not violate or disturb public order.

 

[chillyinCanada]

Being the guarantor of a foreign tourist brings a lot of responsibility and potential problems:
Imigrasi Press Release : THE IMPORTANCE OF INDIVIDUAL OR CORPORATE VISA GUARANTOR FOR FOREIGNERS OVERSIGHT IN INDONESIA (23 Feb 2022)
The return of the Indonesian tourism industry after the Covid-19 virus storm has attracted the enthusiasm of travel fans around the world. Along with this, foreigners from various countries are constantly seeking information about permits to enter Indonesian territory to enjoy the beauty of the archipelago. Questions about Free Visit Visa (BVK) and Visa On Arrival (VOA) keep coming, considering that previously Indonesia provided these two facilities to foreigners from certain countries. However, now prospective foreign tourists must apply for a B211A Tourist Visit Visa with a guarantor classification that has been determined by the government.
“These questions can be understood, because before the pandemic, Tourist Visit Visas did not require a guarantor. However, the Directorate General of Immigration issued a policy that in recovering tourism and the national economy during this pandemic, foreign tourists must be guaranteed by a travel agency or hotel company based in Indonesia," said Director of Immigration Traffic, Amran Aris.
Amran said that his party had socialized and disseminated E-Visa to more than 400 participants in early February 2022 in Denpasar, Bali. The participants of the event are tourism industry players, such as travel agents and hotels. "In addition, the Directorate General of Immigration also involves the Kemenkomarves, Kemenparekraf and the Bali Provincial Government. The socialization aims to make the application for tourist visit visas easily accessible to the general public and not exclusive to certain parties,” he continued.
He emphasized that the stipulation of tourist travel bureaus and hotels as guarantors for Tourist Visit Visa applicants is intended to facilitate the supervision of foreigners. Travel agencies/hotels that register as guarantors have full obligations to monitor the activities and whereabouts of foreigners, starting from the rented rooms to the foreigner's travel plans until the day of his return to his country of origin. They must cooperate with immigration officials to ensure foreign tourists do not violate or disturb public order.

Holy crap! That's about the hardest decision the government has made yet. Not to mention, when I arrive, I want to be able to go here and there and hopefully on a liveaboard too. How does that work for me as a tourist? And does each hotel or liveaboard operator have to be my guarantor?

No no this isn't going to work for someone like me, though I suppose that I could get a friend to be the guarantor. I'm certainly not going to be violating or disturbing public order. It's been years since I've done anything like that and when I did, it wasn't in Indonesia.

 

[Indah]

Holy crap! That's about the hardest decision the government has made yet. Not to mention, when I arrive, I want to be able to go here and there and hopefully on a liveaboard too. How does that work for me as a tourist? And does each hotel or liveaboard operator have to be my guarantor?

No no this isn't going to work for someone like me, though I suppose that I could get a friend to be the guarantor. I'm certainly not going to be violating or disturbing public order. It's been years since I've done anything like that and when I did, it wasn't in Indonesia.

Many questions remain: what if the guest is involved in a traffic accident, dive accident, uses soft drugs, dies? Would I, being based at North Sulawesi, have to take care of a dive accident which took place in Raja Ampat? I definitely do not want to be the guarantor of somebody I do not know very well and stays the first 3 days of his 3 weeks Indonesia trip with us.
Probably many people will have to apply for a visa through a travel or visa agency.

 

[Blackcrusader]

Holy crap! That's about the hardest decision the government has made yet. Not to mention, when I arrive, I want to be able to go here and there and hopefully on a liveaboard too. How does that work for me as a tourist? And does each hotel or liveaboard operator have to be my guarantor?

No no this isn't going to work for someone like me, though I suppose that I could get a friend to be the guarantor. I'm certainly not going to be violating or disturbing public order. It's been years since I've done anything like that and when I did, it wasn't in Indonesia.

Yup same for me as a good friend and I plan a LOB at Raja. If we cannot do that we would quarantine in Bali and then stay at one of the places in Raja. Places to stay aren't very nice or good value but we offset that by going for the diving. We have decided to dive elsewhere in the meantime where no quarantine is required, visa on arrival, decent places to stay and eat at, and the airport is less than 15 mins away from the dive center. Panglao Bohol here we come. Bali and Raja will have to wait and we are dying to spend 3 weeks there.

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[boletus1973]

After this night and the new situation around Europe, the Indonesian VOA isn’t anymore a problem for me…. Good luck guys!

 

[chillyinCanada]

After this night and the new situation around Europe, the Indonesian VOA isn’t anymore a problem for me…. Good luck guys!

I don't understand. Are you meaning that your concern over the invasion of Ukraine is keeping you from going anywhere?

I agree that it is very frightening for all of us but not as frightening for those of us not in Ukraine.

What am I missing please?

 

[Mod63]

a) flights from Europe to SEA pass through Ukraine/Russian airspace
b) Russia already has shot down a civil aircraft (MH17) in the past

 

[boletus1973]

I don't understand. Are you meaning that your concern over the invasion of Ukraine is keeping you from going anywhere?

I agree that it is very frightening for all of us but not as frightening for those of us not in Ukraine.

What am I missing please?

Not that… always dreaming to go back in Asia, but for now keep calm and look what can happen… it can be an escalation..
We don’t know the future… we don’t know what nato are thinking… china already say the they are with Putin and I think they want to do the same with Taiwan…
My country is dependent from Russian natural gas and not only.. we are between two fires… it can be also an economic disaster…
Thinking about holidays is beautiful.. after two years pandemic even more… but with a war just started at our borders I think I have to wait..
keep calm and pray for the Ukrainian population

 

[boletus1973]

a) flights from Europe to SEA pass through Ukraine/Russian airspace
b) Russia already has shot down a civil aircraft (MH17) in the past

That’s another point…