E33G Visa
Indonesia's remote-worker Visa, granting a one-year stay permit to foreigners working for employers abroad.
E33G applications run through an immigration apparatus under graft investigation. On 30 September 2026 the anti-corruption Commission sent its residence-permit extortion case, with eight suspects including a former deputy immigration minister, to prosecutors over 145.5bn rupiah allegedly taken from foreign applicants.
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The E33G is Indonesia's remote worker Visa. It leads to a one-year limited-stay permit (ITAS), granted by the Directorate General of Immigration to foreigners WHO work remotely for employers or clients outside Indonesia, and the permit can be extended online through the immigration e-Visa portal. Applicants must show bank records of at least US$60,000 a year in income, the floor in force for 2026.
Holders may travel as tourists and visit family, but may not take other work or sell goods and services unrelated to their remote job. Bali's Ngurah Rai Immigration Office said on 29 September 2026 that it had deported a holder who worked as a motorcycle instructor. From 2026 the Directorate General of Taxes shares tax-residency data with immigration, and KITAS holders file quarterly workforce reports through a central portal.
The Visa rests on Ministry of Law and Human Rights Regulations 22/2023 and 11/2024, with fees set by Government Regulation 45/2024. Its income floor shuts out the foreign-client worker on about $4,000 a month WHO anchored Bali's remote-work scene from 2022 to 2025. That worker's remaining option, the B211A business-visit Visa, covers only short stays.
The permit office lost its deputy minister
For E33G holders the scandal reaches the office that decides their renewals. The anti-corruption Commission (KPK) alleges a scheme that ran from 2022 to 2026 and extracted 145.5bn rupiah, about US$7.8m, from foreign nationals through a West Jakarta immigration office. President Prabowo Subianto dismissed deputy immigration minister Silmy Karim on 4 June 2026, and no successor had been named by 14 June.
A Jakarta court rejected Karim's pre-trial challenge on 29 September, and on 30 September the KPK passed the file to prosecutors. No court has tried the allegations. For a remote worker renewing a one-year permit, the cost since June has been slower decisions from cautious officials. The alleged extortion sat in the discretionary layer beneath the published US$60,000 income rule, the part an applicant cannot see from the Visa requirements.
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