Indonesia's E33G Remote Worker Visa: A Practical Guide

Updated 7 August 2026 · Okusi Associates · All guides

Indonesia’s remote-worker visa is the E33G — Visa Rumah Kedua Pekerja Jarak Jauh — a member of the ‘second home’ (E33) family of limited stay visas created when Permenkumham 22/2023 replaced the old numeric visa indexes with the current alphanumeric system. It grants a one-year limited stay permit (ITAS) with multiple entries, renewable online through the immigration e-visa portal, and it exists for a single purpose: to let a foreigner reside in Indonesia whilst working remotely for a company established outside Indonesia. The holder may also travel within the country, undertake tourism and visit family. What the holder may not do is work for anyone Indonesian, a boundary examined below because it carries criminal penalties rather than administrative ones.

What the visa requires

The published requirements are short. An applicant needs a passport valid for at least six months; an employment agreement with a company established outside Indonesia; bank records evidencing salary or other income of at least USD 60,000 per year, sourced from outside Indonesia; and evidence of living funds — a personal bank statement showing at least USD 2,000 or equivalent over the last three months.

Two observations before the detail. First, the USD 60,000 and USD 2,000 figures come from the official immigration index pages rather than from a regulation text: they are policy settings, and they can move without any new regulation being issued. Confirm the current thresholds before filing, not after. Second, the requirement is evidenced by bank records, not by a payslip alone. Immigration wants to see the income arriving, not merely a document asserting that it should.

The one-man company question

The question Okusi is asked more than any other about the E33G: my USD 60,000 does not come from an employer — it flows through my own foreign company, of which I am the sole director and shareholder. Do I qualify?

The published requirement tests two things: an employment agreement with a company established outside Indonesia, and bank records showing the income. Nothing in the published requirements tests who owns that company. What the requirement does demand is that the relationship be documented as employment — a bare shareholding, with profits drawn informally as and when convenient, does not produce an employment agreement and does not produce bank records showing salary. The practical consequence for the owner-operator is that the arrangement must be formalised before applying: a written employment or director’s service agreement between the applicant and the company, and remuneration actually flowing from the company’s account to the applicant’s, at a level the statements can demonstrate meets the threshold.

Whether a given immigration officer accepts a self-owned structure in a given month is a matter of practice, and practice varies. Okusi reviews the corporate arrangement and the money trail before anything is lodged. A properly papered one-man company is a very different application from a shoebox of invoices, and the time to discover which one you have is before submission.

Documents in practice

The load-bearing documents are the employment agreement and the bank statements; the passport is a formality provided it has six months’ validity. Where clients come unstuck is coherence between the two: a contract stating one salary whilst the statements show irregular transfers of another amount invites questions. A salary certificate or payslips from the foreign employer are useful supporting evidence to tie the contract to the statements, particularly where the bank narrative lines are uninformative, but they supplement the bank records rather than replace them.

What it costs

Since 17 December 2024, Indonesian immigration fees have been set by PP 45/2024, which revoked the old regime and prices everything in rupiah — the familiar ‘US$150 plus rupiah’ quotes still circulating on some regional immigration websites describe a fee structure that no longer exists. The official E33G package total decomposes exactly into the current schedule:

Component (PP 45/2024)	IDR
Limited stay visa	500,000
Visa verification fee, Category II	2,000,000
Limited stay permit (ITAS), 1 year	3,000,000
Re-entry permit, 1 year	1,500,000
Published government total	7,000,000

A quoted ‘government fee’ that will not decompose against PP 45/2024 line items should be treated with suspicion. Okusi’s full-service handling of the E33G — eligibility assessment, document preparation, submission and support through the year — is US$ 865 per annum, in addition to the government charges above.

Timeline, and whether ‘expedited’ processing is real

The official processing standard is five working days after payment is received. Allow additional time for assembling and, where necessary, repairing the documentary package — for a one-man company applicant, formalising the employment arrangement is usually the long pole, not the immigration processing itself. There is no faster official channel for sale: an agent promising guaranteed 24-hour E33G issuance is selling something the government fee schedule does not contain.

Applications and renewals run through the central electronic visa system rather than a regional counter, so there is no ‘Batam application’ distinct from a ‘Jakarta application’. Okusi handles E33G matters from all three of its offices — Jakarta, Bali and Batam — and which office a client deals with is a question of convenience, not jurisdiction.

What the E33G does not allow

The visa authorises remote work for a company established outside Indonesia. It does not authorise employment by an Indonesian entity, taking on Indonesian clients, or receiving Indonesian-sourced income. This is not a technicality. UU 6/2011 Pasal 122(a) punishes a foreigner who carries out activities not in accordance with the purpose of their stay permit with imprisonment of up to 5 years and a fine of up to Rp 500,000,000 — and Pasal 122(b) applies the identical penalty to whoever gave them the opportunity, which reaches the Indonesian company. A remote worker who wishes to work for an Indonesian employer needs an E23 or E25 work visa resting on a ratified RPTKA. There is no halfway position.

Overstay follows its own arithmetic. Up to 60 days past the permit, the charge is Rp 1,000,000 per day, per person. Beyond 60 days there is no fine option at all: the consequence is deportation and blacklisting, and PP 45/2024 prices removal from the blacklist at Rp 90,000,000. Renew on time.

Family, property, banking

Dependants. Indonesia’s family-reunification stream is the E31 series under Permenkumham 22/2023: E31B for the spouse of an ITAS holder, E31E for a child. The published government total for a one-year spouse permit is Rp 6,000,000. Family-stream permits carry no work authorisation whatsoever — a dependent spouse who works is inside the same Pasal 122 exposure described above. Whether a particular E33G holder’s circumstances support dependant sponsorship is assessed case by case; Okusi’s dependants KITAS service covers the family side.

Property. The E33G confers a stay permit; it neither grants nor removes rights over Indonesian land. Foreign property rights are governed by agrarian law and turn on the title attached to the land, not the visa index in a passport. An E33G holder contemplating buying or selling should take specific advice on the transaction itself — the visa is simply not the instrument that decides the question.

Banking and insurance. The published E33G requirements contain no local bank account commitment and no insurance item — the USD 50,000 state-bank deposit sometimes mentioned in this context belongs to the E33E five-year retirement visa, not to the E33G. Checklists on the portal do change; Okusi confirms the current documentary list, and advises on practical banking access for ITAS holders, at enquiry.

Where Okusi fits

Okusi Associates has been handling Indonesian immigration and corporate matters since 1997, from offices in Jakarta, Bali and Batam. For the E33G that means an honest eligibility assessment before any fee is taken — including the one-man-company structures that make up a large share of enquiries — preparation of a documentary package that reconciles contract to bank records, submission, and support through renewal. Details and current pricing are on the Digital Nomad Visa (E33G) service page; for those whose plans involve Indonesian clients or an Indonesian entity, the conversation starts with a work visa instead, and Okusi will say so plainly.