Indonesia Directorate General of Immigration

Indonesia's Directorate General of Immigration (Ditjen Imigrasi) sits within the Indonesian Ministry of Law and Human Rights. It administers all immigration documents including the Second Home Visa (for long-stay visitors with significant assets), the E33G investor Visa (income floor raised to $60,000/year effective 2026), and the LTR (Long-Term Residence) Visa introduced in 2022. The directorate also synchronises residency records with the Directorate General of Taxes and deploys a 100-person Bali task force patrolling ten areas.

In 2025 the directorate collected Rp10.4 trillion in non-tax state revenue from immigration services, reaching 155% of its annual target. Enforcement activity in April 2026 apprehended 346 foreign nationals in sweeps across tourist and expatriate areas. The 155% overperformance reflects increased fee income from a growing applicant base alongside penalty revenue from enforcement; the dual posture (premium Visa marketing alongside compliance operations) shapes how foreign residents and investors read regulatory risk.

Indonesia's Bali and Lombok corridors have attracted growing numbers of digital nomads and longer-stay foreign residents. The directorate's expanding revenue and enforcement capacity places it at the centre of a recurring tension: whether Indonesia's post-pandemic tourism growth strategy can coexist with strict immigration controls.

In June 2026 the directorate's parent ministry was decapitated at deputy level. On 3 June 2026 the KPK (Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi, Indonesia's anti-corruption commission) arrested 17 people at the West Jakarta Class I immigration office, including deputy immigration and corrections minister Silmy Karim, eight immigration officials, and nine private Visa-agent intermediaries. The alleged scheme extracted approximately Rp145.5 billion (around USD 7.8 million) from foreign nationals through permit extortion, primarily KITAS and KITAP applications, running from 2022 to 2026. President Prabowo Subianto dismissed Karim on 4 June, eight days after the arrest. As of 14 June 2026 no successor had been named; Minister Agus Andrianto is covering daily operations.

The leadership gap sits at the top of the permit apparatus during peak season. The extortion scheme ran through the same permit-processing function that nomads and long-stay residents depend on, and the scale of the alleged payments (Rp100 million per week at the West Jakarta office alone) suggests a systemic rather than isolated problem. Karim's declared personal wealth of Rp234.59 billion (USD 14.4 million) is under KPK scrutiny.

In the months before the arrest, the directorate had run a named enforcement operation, Dharma Dewata, from 15 April to 4 May 2026, detaining 62 foreign nationals across Denpasar, Badung and Singaraja. Violations spanned overstays, false Visa data, illegal work, fraudulent investment schemes, and public-order disturbances. Operation head Felucia Sengky Ratna framed the task force as ensuring "only foreigners who benefit the region and respect local customs can enter Bali." Nationalities were withheld to avoid diplomatic sensitivities. The cumulative national enforcement figure for 2026 remains unpublished, keeping day-to-day compliance risk for KITAS holders effectively unpriceable. The corruption arrest raises a separate question about what intermediaries may have charged to expedite those same permits.