Indonesia visa question! Please help!
 

Hi guys,

Not sure if this is in the right section (first post!):

I am travelling to Australia via Jakarta Indonesia in August with Garuda Indonesia airlines. The hold time in Jakarta is 11 hours 50 minutes.

I spoke to the Garuda call centre in the UK (I have a British passport) and they said if the hold time is more than 8 hours then you are required to purchase a transit visa for $35 US dollars.

Has anybody had this experience?

Can you not simply wait in the airport rather than go through arrivals and have to purchase this visa?

Thanks for for taking the time to read and hope you can help!

Best wishes

Welcome to FlyerTalk... unfortunately this is not the correct forum for your post, so the thread has been locked. Questions about foreign visas are best addressed in the relevant destination forum, which in this case would be the Asia forum where you'll find the the http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/asia/...?highlight=VOA discussion thread.

For future reference, you can find all of the Destinations forums by clicking the link in the JUMP TO FORUMS area of the page header.

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Good luck, and safe travels!