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Indonesia's Directorate General of Immigration states a return or onward ticket across every visitor category most Bali travellers actually use.
An official page or statute states this condition. The wording is quoted below and the source is linked.
Last verified 5 August 2026 · Asia
“Tiket kembali atau tiket terusan untuk melanjutkan perjalanan ke negara lain.”A return ticket or onward ticket to continue the journey to another country.
What the rule actually says
This is the clearest non-US case in the dataset. The same condition is stated for the electronic visa on arrival, the visa on arrival, and visa-free entry — the three paths that cover the overwhelming majority of arrivals into Bali.
The published exception is narrow: transport crew stopping over to join their vessel.
The online e-Visa path is different, and the difference confuses people. Its document list is only the passport bio page, a photo, an email address and a payment card — no ticket. The ticket condition attaches to VOA, e-VOA and visa-free entry, not to that application form.
Who checks
The condition is published by the immigration authority, so an immigration officer can ask for it on arrival. Indonesia publishes nothing about airline check-in screening, and that behaviour cannot be verified from outside the industry.
A note on airline enforcement, because almost every page on this subject states it as fact: airlines screen these rules through IATA Timatic, a paid business product with no public interface. Nobody outside the industry can check what it says for a given route on a given day. New Zealand is the only authority in this set whose own published text names the check-in desk.
Sources
- Visa FAQ — return or onward ticket condition (Directorate General of Immigration, Republic of Indonesia)
- Indonesian e-Visa — visa selection (Directorate General of Immigration, Republic of Indonesia)
- Indonesia travel advice: entry requirements (UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office — another government's summary, used because the destination's own page could not be retrieved)
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