Klungkung Regency, the district government covering the Nusa islands, announced on 12 August that from 1 September it will charge foreign adults Rp25,000 and foreign children Rp15,000, roughly £1.15 and £0.70, to visit Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan1. The charge rests on Regional Regulation 4/2026, a rule the regency writes and enforces itself, plus a tourism office letter.
A regency in Indonesia sits below the province and above the village, and it can levy on its own territory without provincial sign-off. This one lands on the busiest island cluster in Bali. Statistics of Bali Province recorded 605,013 direct foreign arrivals in June, 4.63% above May, with Australian passport holders supplying 25.90% of them2.
Bali's arrival numbers are still climbing, and at £1.15 a head the levy is too small to keep anyone off the fast boat. Klungkung Regency has priced the demand rather than rationed it. Where it may do better than its neighbours is collection: the regency takes the money at the point of entry to the islands, and a visitor arrives by boat through a handful of harbours.
Jaume Collboni reached for the same geometry in Barcelona, doubling the cruise day-stop tax to 8 euro and cutting berths from seven to five. Charge at the gate people must physically pass through, and compliance stops depending on anyone's willingness to volunteer.
