Indonesia extend visa free to 45 countries
Mar 22, 2015, 6:46 am
#17
Suspended
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Watchlisted by the prejudiced, en route to purgatory
Programs: Just Say No to Fleecing and Blacklisting
Posts: 102,095
Governmental relations between Australia and Indonesia have been strained more or less for at least as long as there has been an FT.
Mar 23, 2015, 1:46 am
#18
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: ASIA
Programs: TK Elite, ALL Plus Diamond, Marriott Platinum, Hertz PC
Posts: 3,530
While the government recently said it would waive visa requirements for 30 countries starting in April, legal issues may delay its implementation as an Indonesian law stipulates that visa exemptions could only be made on a reciprocal basis.
Indonesia..... Don't I love theee........
Mar 30, 2015, 4:38 am
#19
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: London
Programs: Many. Too many. I came here to cut them down. I failed.
Posts: 2,999
Really wouldn't get excited by anything - i'm heading there in June and am 99% certain my English (
) passport will get me charged US$35.
Had friends who flew out of Heathrow with US$25 cash each, only to arrive into Bali 20 hours later to find that had been increased US$10 whilst they were in the air!
I would say the odds that my VOA will be free in June are marginally less than the odds the VOA having gone upto US$50 by then!
) passport will get me charged US$35.Had friends who flew out of Heathrow with US$25 cash each, only to arrive into Bali 20 hours later to find that had been increased US$10 whilst they were in the air!
I would say the odds that my VOA will be free in June are marginally less than the odds the VOA having gone upto US$50 by then!
Mar 30, 2015, 7:48 am
#20
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Tri-State Area
Posts: 4,728
Enactment into law is vastly different than actual implementation.....that's the history of Indonesia. I totally agree...bring US$ with you and expect to que for VOA.
Apr 6, 2015, 10:39 am
#21
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Kansas City, USA
Programs: AA Gold, Delta Platinum, Marriott Titanium, IHG Plat, AVIS Preferred, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 2,066
Am I correct in assuming that this has been put on hold indefinitely? I'm headed to Bali next week, so I'll make sure to have my $35 ready. 
Apr 6, 2015, 7:48 pm
#22
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: body: A stone's throw from SFO, mind: SE Asia
Programs: Some of this 'n some of that
Posts: 17,263
Apr 7, 2015, 1:00 am
#23
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: ASIA
Programs: TK Elite, ALL Plus Diamond, Marriott Platinum, Hertz PC
Posts: 3,530
By the looks of this report: Visa policy to go ahead, pending some regulatory approvals this should go ahead some time in April (no longer 1st April).
But it certainly hasnt started yet.
But it certainly hasnt started yet.
Apr 7, 2015, 3:10 am
#24
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Sydney
Programs: SQ, GA, QF
Posts: 192
There is a possibility that the visa free policy is scrapped for the time being since it would violate the existing law according to this: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2...ue-jokowi.html
Apr 10, 2015, 3:02 pm
#26
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Kansas City, USA
Programs: AA Gold, Delta Platinum, Marriott Titanium, IHG Plat, AVIS Preferred, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 2,066
Apr 12, 2015, 7:50 pm
#27
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: body: A stone's throw from SFO, mind: SE Asia
Programs: Some of this 'n some of that
Posts: 17,263
Apr 15, 2015, 7:56 pm
#28
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 8
It's a scam
Unfortunately that was just a typical Indonesian take-the-money-and-run style scam: http://www.2globalnomads.info/2015/0...-scam-lie.html.
Please do not help Indonesia to spread this misinformation and cheat more travellers to go there.
Please do not help Indonesia to spread this misinformation and cheat more travellers to go there.
Apr 16, 2015, 2:09 am
#29
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: London
Programs: Hilton, IHG - BA, GA, LH, QR, SV, TK
Posts: 17,008
Unfortunately that was just a typical Indonesian take-the-money-and-run style scam: http://www.2globalnomads.info/2015/0...-scam-lie.html.
Please do not help Indonesia to spread this misinformation and cheat more travellers to go there.
Please do not help Indonesia to spread this misinformation and cheat more travellers to go there.
It's the maintenance of the status quo, hardly a scam. Just a muddle of competing interests/divisions/ministries.
Egypt is going through the same farce, albeit in the other direction: a tightening of visa procedures announced then rescinded.
Apr 16, 2015, 2:24 am
#30
Join Date: May 2009
Location: SIN (with a bit of ZRH sprinkled in)
Posts: 9,455
Seems they both don't want tourists..
Seriously, they expect rich European countries to let their (mostly) poor population go visa-free?
Sri Lanka already shot it's tourism in it's feet with it's visa-on-arrival crap.
There are reasons why I like to go to Malaysia. One is the fact I don't have to fill out arrival card crap, or hand over money to enter a country..
Next holiday I just decided now: Malaysia, not Indonesia.
Seriously, they expect rich European countries to let their (mostly) poor population go visa-free?
Sri Lanka already shot it's tourism in it's feet with it's visa-on-arrival crap.
There are reasons why I like to go to Malaysia. One is the fact I don't have to fill out arrival card crap, or hand over money to enter a country..
Next holiday I just decided now: Malaysia, not Indonesia.