Indonesia

Welcome to Indonesia

Indonesia is a vast archipelago covering a distance of thousands of miles stretching from the city of Sabang at the northwestern tip, and to Merauke in the southeast. With its lush tropical forests, this country looks like a string of beautiful emeralds encircling the equator. Indonesia is strategically located between two oceans, the Indian and the Pacific, and is a link between two continents, Asia and Australia. Enjoying a tropical climate with sunshine throughout almost the whole year, broken by intermittent rains, Indonesia has now become a major tourist destination along with its more established business activities. The wonder of the underwater world at Bunaken, the famous diving paradise in North Sulawesi, the Barong dance and the dramatic scenery of the Tanah Lot Temple in Bali, the exciting Karapan Sapi bull races lane island of Madura, the elaborate funerals, which include dances and bull fighting of the people of aria Toraja in South Sulawesi, the new Bali adventure, white water rafting on the Ayung River, watching whales of Lamalera or the Komodo dragon seeking its prey at East Nusa Tenggara, and many other attractive events are all waiting to be enjoyed.

In line with this, as a stable, developing country with a population of almost 200 million people, Indonesia has made a significant and rapid progress for a better and brighter future. The ever increasing flow of foreign investors, experts, and tourists that continuously enter this country help the country to enhance its national development programs in almost every sector of industry, from tourism to sophisticated technology, and are, at the same time, proof of the amount of international recognition for Indonesia’s outstanding success in the development of business and tourism. The inspiring growth of corporate business coupled with the impact of globalization has brought many changes in the Government’s policies. Within the last decade, the Government had launched a policy of deregulation to facilitate many kinds of businesses in this country. Undoubtedly, all of this has been helping to prepare Indonesia for the ASEAN Free Trade Market in the year 2003.

The Directorate General of Immigration, with more than eighty offices throughout the country, including international airports and seaports, is managed by professionally trained officials who serve the interests of the incoming and outgoing traffic of people.

The numerous and various aspects of Immigration services are concerned with the case, convenience, and speed of people entering and leaving the territory of Indonesia, and include the regulating of visa exemptions for citizens of certain foreign countries. The various types of immigration services are of national importance, especially because all immigration facilities available to foreign nationals are an integral part of the application of the reciprocity principle, a principle which enables Indonesian citizens to receive similar facilities from those countries whose citizens have received immigration facilities in Indonesia.

In relation to foreign nationals staying in Indonesia, service, supervision and control on matters of immigration are carried out based on a Selective Policy Principle. Based on this principle, only those foreign nationals who are beneficial to the general welfare, the people, and the country shall be allowed to enter the territory of Indonesia. For certain reasons, an attitude of opposition to the people and the state of the Republic of Indonesia, a foreign national may be temporarily refused entrance into the country.