The Indonesia remote worker KITAS (E33G)

The E33G remote worker KITAS gives you one year in Indonesia if a foreign employer pays you US$60,000 a year. It launched on 1 April 2024 and costs IDR 7,000,000, about $397, with no sponsor needed. You may not take on a single local client. Bank statements must show US$2,000 across three months (imigrasi.go.id, read 10 September 2026). Renewal is disputed.

Current at 9 September 2026. Dollars at IDR 17,650 to US$1, the rate of 8 September 2026.

One year, multiple entries, and a renewal nobody agrees on

The permit is an ITAS, good for one year, with no per-entry day limit. The entry visa, a VITAS, lapses 90 days after issue. Re-entry needs a live MERP, billed inside the headline fee. Your spouse, children, parents and siblings have qualified for a dependant permit since December 2025 (xpnd.co.id, 8 May 2026).

No consulate reads this file. You apply online at evisa.imigrasi.go.id, with no sponsor and no guarantor. Biometrics have been in person since May 2025. The stated time is 5 working days. But four to eight weeks is more likely (knowmadsbali.com, February 2026). Most holders are moving to Bali, though the permit covers the whole country.

CHECK Immigration has published the renewal rule. An ITAS extends one year at a time, up to five times running, six years in all. Each extension costs IDR 4,500,000, about $255 (Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi, FAQ, read 11 September 2026). That is three million for the stay permit and 1.5 million for the MERP. Practice in 2026 is still reported as an exit at the eleventh month, then a fresh filing from abroad. No regulator page confirms that practice. Fragomen (2024) calls the renewal reusable once, and Emerhub (2026) calls it non-extendable.

The money test is on your contract, not your balance

Test	Figure	Authority
Foreign employer's pay	US$60,000 a year, about US$5,000 a month, or IDR 1.059 billion	imigrasi.go.id
Bank balance	US$2,000, across the 3 months before filing	imigrasi.go.id
Health cover	International insurance, not travel	emerhub.com, not the official page

Every line above was read on 10 September 2026. Your passport must have 6 months left on it, counted from your arrival date (imigrasi.go.id, FAQ Visa). The US$60,000 has not moved since launch (fragomen.com, 8 April 2024). The test reads your contract, not your account. Your employer must be based outside Indonesia. Fees come from PP 45/2024, in force since late 2024.

Line item	IDR	US$
Entry visa (VITAS)	500,000	$28.33
Category II verification	2,000,000	$113.31
Stay permit (ITAS), one year	3,000,000	$169.97
Re-entry permit (MERP)	1,500,000	$84.99
Headline fee	7,000,000	$397

The IDR 7,000,000 headline fee already counts the one-year MERP re-entry permit inside it (Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi, tariff schedule, 24 October 2023). A site that adds a second MERP and an exit permit on top reaches IDR 8,600,000. That double-counts the re-entry permit.

The exit permit's state fee is IDR 100,000, or $5.67. An IDR 1,500,000 figure some sites quote is the one-year MERP, mislabelled (Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi, tariff schedule, 24 October 2023).

CHECK One site says you can switch status onshore from a B211A visit visa or another KITAS. It says never from a visa on arrival (bali.com). Another says you must file from abroad before you arrive (roamhub.io, April 2026). Filing a visa and switching status onshore are different acts. Agency pages collapse them into one (both read 10 September 2026).

What the E33G will not let you do

Work for a local company. Take one local client. Sell anything to anyone here. Any income earned inside Indonesia is against the rules. It is not a work permit and never becomes one. You may not run a business. You may not sublet rooms in your rented villa. People have been deported for doing it (emerhub.com and bali.com, read 10 September 2026).

The permit opens a bank account rather than closing one, the reverse of the usual warning. BCA, Mandiri and BNI often take E33G holders (search consensus, read 10 September 2026).

An E33G holder can apply for a SIM at a Satpas. The permit is a KITAS, not a visit visa (Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi, visa index, read 11 September 2026).

Ngurah Rai deported 331 people in 2025, and 62 in May 2026 alone, by one site's count. It reports a 100-person task force patrolling Canggu, Seminyak and eight other places. That is unconfirmed by any regulator release (shareuhack.com, updated 6 June 2026).

The compliance load starts before you land

File the free All Indonesia Arrival Card at allindonesia.imigrasi.go.id within 72 hours before arrival. Every airport that takes flights from abroad has required it since 1 October 2025. Your landlord then reports you to immigration. A KITAS holder also registers for an SKTT at Dukcapil, which gates the licence and the bank account. Bali also charges a IDR 150,000 ($8.50) arrival levy at every international entry, with no waiver (lovebali.baliprov.go.id). Renting a villa in Bali covers the reporting duty.

Overstay costs IDR 1,000,000 a day ($56.66) per person, children included, with no grace period. A family of four, ten days over, pays IDR 40,000,000, about $2,266. Past 60 days you are deported and banned for 6 months to 10 years, under Immigration Law Amendment No. 63 of 2024.

Tax residency follows 183 days in any rolling 12 months, or intent. A KITAS counts as intent (emerhub.com, 20 May 2026). That makes you a resident from the day you arrive. Then it is an NPWP, a yearly return and worldwide income at 5% to 35%.

The four-year foreign-income exemption is never automatic. Under PMK 18/2021 and PP 55/2022, you must apply to the Director General of Taxes. Only listed expertise qualifies (Kementerian Keuangan, PMK 18/2021, 17 February 2021). Whether an E33G holder is on that list is the detail roundup sites drop.

Chapter 10 of Living in Southeast Asia 101 carries the checklist of papers and the filing steps for this permit.

Who this route is wrong for

If you are	The problem	Instead
A freelancer, no employment contract	Unsettled, no appeal if refused	A C1 tourist visa, 60 days, extendable twice to 180
Self-employed, or paid by your own company	Sole traders excluded (emerhub.com)	E28A investor KITAS, or E23 with a sponsor
Under US$60,000	A hard floor, no averaging	Malaysia's DE Rantau, US$24,000 for tech roles, $60,000 otherwise
Employed here, or with local clients	Prohibited, and audited	E23 work KITAS, sponsor-approved with RPTKA, IDR 3,000,000 ($170) a year
Wanting more than a year	Renewal unresolved	E33 Second Home, 5 or 10 years on IDR 2bn ($113,314)
Here under three months	More than you need	e-VOA, IDR 500,000 ($28.33), 30 days

Those options were checked on 10 September 2026 (imigrasi.go.id, emerhub.com, xpnd.co.id).

CHECK Whether a freelancer qualifies is truly unclear. The rule wants a contract with a firm registered abroad. One site reports SaaS founders on US$5,000 a month getting in anyway (shareuhack.com, updated 6 June 2026). A service deal is not covered either way. Treat the permit as closed to you until a lawyer says otherwise in writing.

Take it if a foreign payroll pays you, and only then

Paid US$60,000 from abroad, this is the best permit in Indonesia for you. Nothing else hands a remote worker a legal year with no sponsor. IDR 7,000,000 is under 1% of the income the rule tests.

If you invoice clients, the answer is no for now. Whether you qualify is open, and being turned down carries no appeal. Immigration audits exactly this group. Cycle a C1 tourist visa and watch the rule. Twelve months is all this permit sells.

What this page does not cover

The checklist of papers, apostilles included, in the order the portal asks for it
The 3-step SKTT sequence, from RT/RW letter to Dukcapil card
Which of the 3 banks taking E33G holders to walk into first
The agent fee spread, IDR 8–18M ($453–1,020), and what it buys

All of it is in Living in Southeast Asia 101 — 60 pages, $49. See what's inside

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