Indonesia's E33G digital nomad visa raised its income threshold to $60,000 per year ($5,000 a month) effective 2026, a roughly 94% jump on Bulgaria's €31,000 nomad permit floor and within reach of UAE Golden Visa minimums. 1 2 A new 100-person Bali Immigration Task Force is now patrolling ten areas including Canggu and Seminyak. The Directorate General of Taxes (DGT, the Indonesian Direktorat Jenderal Pajak) now synchronises its tax-residency data with the Directorate General of Immigration, and KITAS (Kartu Izin Tinggal Terbatas, the Indonesian limited-stay residence permit) holders must file quarterly workforce reports through a centralised portal.
The threshold change repositions the country in the global mid-income nomad market. Mexico's doubled residency fees and Bulgaria's December 2025 €31,000 permit floor sit on the same arithmetic curve: every destination the mid-income cohort plans around moved its price upward inside one budget cycle. The cohort that anchored Bali through 2022 to 2025, the foreign-client worker drawing $4,000 a month, is now formally outside the E33G route. The B211A business-visit visa remains available for short stints, but the structured nomad product is gone for everyone below the threshold.
April 2026 enforcement context tells the tactical story. Ngurah Rai Immigration Office alone deported 331 foreign nationals across all of 2025, and 346 April apprehensions in 2026 already exceed that. A single month of 2026 enforcement now matches a full year of the prior baseline, which is what the 100-person task force was designed to sustain.
Where Indonesia previously ran immigration as a fiscal instrument and an enforcement signal in parallel, the DGT-immigration sync now runs them as a single integrated dataset. A nomad whose income is reported into one Indonesian system is now, by default, visible to the other. The compliance work the rules expect is the same kind of work the platform-economy framework in Brussels is also requiring: a single audit trail across the same person. The first DGT-immigration prosecution will determine whether the architecture functions as a docket or, like Tbilisi's MIA powers, as a deterrent without one.
