Indonesia Arrival Card Requirements: What You Need (2026)

The requirements, in one sentence

The only Indonesia arrival card requirements are a valid passport and six blocks of information typed accurately into the official form at allindonesia.imigrasi.go.id: personal data, travel details, your address in Indonesia, a health declaration, and a customs declaration. No documents to upload, nothing to pay, nothing to print. The form is free, and we file it for travelers for $15 with QR code delivery within 24 hours if you would rather outsource the typing and checking.

This guide lists every block so you can gather everything before you start. The portal enforces a submission window of within 3 days before arrival, so preparation matters more than speed: know your facts, then file in one sitting. For the broader picture of who needs the card and when, see our complete 2026 guide.

What to have in front of you

Before opening the form, put these four things on the table. Every field in the application comes from one of them.

The six blocks of the form, field by field

The All Indonesia Arrival Card, which we brand as the Indonesia Digital Arrival Card (IDAC), walks you through six blocks in order. Here is what each one asks.

What each form block asks for

• Personal data. Title, full name exactly as printed in the passport, passport number, nationality, date of birth, and contact details including the email where your QR code will be sent. The portal offers an MRZ scanner: point your camera at the bottom two lines of the passport bio page and the fields fill themselves.
• Travel details. Arrival date, planned departure date, purpose of travel such as tourism or business, and your entry permit: visa-free, Visa on Arrival, e-VOA, or a specific visa. You do not need a visa before filling the card; the form simply records which permit you will use.
• Transport and address. Mode of entry, air, sea, or land; your entry point; the flight number or vessel name; and the complete address where you will stay. For a hotel, that means name plus street address, not just the resort's marketing name.
• Health declaration. Whether you currently have symptoms like fever, cough, or vomiting, and the list of countries you visited or transited in the past 21 days. Answer honestly; the block exists for public health monitoring.
• Customs declaration. Number of bags, whether you carry animals, plants, food, or restricted goods, currency over the declared threshold, and electronic device details where IMEI registration applies, such as phones you plan to use with a local SIM.
• Review and submit. Check every field against your passport, submit, and the system issues your Arrival QR code by email and on screen. Screenshot it or save the PDF; printing is optional.

Details that must match your passport exactly

Every identity field is copied from the passport, letter for letter. The single most rejected card is the one where the passport number has a typo or the name misses a hyphen.

Four fields have no tolerance for creativity: full name, passport number, nationality, and date of birth. Immigration matches your card against the passport at the counter, and a mismatch means the officer cannot find your record in the system. Use the MRZ scanner if typing is risky, and write the date in the format the form requests rather than your home-country habit.

The address field is the other frequent failure. Villa Kembar tells the government nothing; the form wants the street address in the booking confirmation. If you are staying with a friend or in a rental, ask the host for the full address before your window opens. Flip through our step-by-step walkthrough in how to apply for the Indonesia arrival card for the exact screens.

What you do NOT need

The list of things the card does not require is almost as useful as the list it does. No payment of any kind, which is worth repeating because lookalike sites charge for this form. No passport photo or scan upload; the MRZ scan is optional convenience, not a requirement. No printed copy; the QR code on your phone is enough. No visa first; you can hold a Visa on Arrival you have not bought yet, because the card only records your permit type. No hotel booking proof to upload; you just type the address.

You also do not need to apply weeks ahead. The window is within 3 days before arrival, so an application filed too early is impossible, not merely unnecessary. Arriving Thursday 12 November 2026 means you cannot submit before Monday 9 November.

Requirements for children and groups

Children hold the same requirement as adults: every foreign passport holder entering Indonesia needs a card, infants included. A parent supplies the child's passport data, and the same address and flight fields as the adults. The form does not let one card cover two people.

Groups, from families to tour parties, submit one card per traveler, but one person can do all the typing. The discipline is matching: each card to its own passport, not a shared approximation. That is the checking work our service does for $15 per application, and the reason groups are our most common customers. Fees and timing are on our fees and processing time page.

If the portal rejects something

Three rejections account for most failures. A typo in the passport number or name: retype slowly or use the MRZ scanner. An arrival date outside the 3-day window: the calendar blocks it, so wait until the window opens. A vague address: get the street address from your booking. If your submission went through but the QR code went missing, the portal has a Retrieve Arrival Card function that finds your card again; we keep a copy of every card we file so our customers never lose theirs.

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