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The step-by-step plan for Indonesia

From "we want this" to being settled, in 37 steps. Read phase 1 in full here. Test your departure date along the way. Then you'll know whether you want the rest.

37 steps5 phases56 official sources6 only for your situationchecked on 9 September 2026

Phase 1 starts below ↓The whole plan: € 399 one-off, no subscription.

What it looks like

Not a PDF, not a checklist. A plan that knows what needs to happen now.

Every step sits in its place in the order, with the lead time, the counter and the official source. You tick off, your partner ticks along, and the plan counts back from your departure date: what has to start when, and what is running now.

Below is phase 1, exactly as it appears in the plan.

The dashboard of the step-by-step plan for Indonesia: the current phase, the open steps, the next step and the deadline bar.

The route

  1. Orientation

    5 steps

    Open · You are here

  2. Your visa

    6 steps

    In your plan

  3. Closing the Netherlands

    14 steps

    In your plan

  4. The move

    4 steps

    In your plan

  5. Arrival in Indonesia

    8 steps

    In your plan

Phase 1 is the question "can we, and do we want to?". From phase 2 the arranging begins.

Phase 1 · Orientation

5 of 5 steps open

A visa here is not a residence permit, and a residence permit is not yet a completed file: the chain runs from eVisa via ITAS to the registration duty at the civil registry. Bali has enforced visibly since 2026 — hundreds of deportations a year — and the two quiet dealbreakers are called healthcare in old age and the pet.

By the end of phase 1 you know the chain and the clocks, you know which route fits you, the two dealbreakers have been weighed honestly and the family stands behind the decision.

Step 1.1

Understand the system: visa, ITAS, registration duty — and real enforcement

Lead time:
reading step
Costs:
none

The Indonesian chain has three links that newcomers mix up. The eVisa you apply for online and it must be used within ninety days of issue. On arrival it's converted into an ITAS — the actual residence permit, digitally on your passport. And then follows the step almost every site skips: the registration duty at Dukcapil, the civil registry, within fourteen days — without that proof (the SKTT) Immigration nowadays refuses your renewal.

And the honesty upfront: Bali enforces. A task force deported 165 foreigners in four months — almost all for working on the wrong visa or overstaying, and overstaying costs a million rupiah a day from day one, with detention and deportation after sixty days. This journey is no longer a grey area; it's a chain you walk neatly.

Checked against the official source

The official sources for this step

Step 1.2

Explore the routes: retirement, deposit, remote or partner

Lead time:
an evening of reading, and the conversation about it
Costs:
none

Four routes, each with its own sum. The retirement KITAS (E33F) for over-55s: US$ 3,000 a month in pension income, a bank balance, health insurance and an agent as sponsor — renewable annually. The Second Home (E33): five years, against a deposit of US$ 130,000 at a state bank, to be paid in within ninety days of arrival and not to be touched. The remote worker visa (E33G): US$ 60,000 a year from a foreign source, one year, and then apply again from outside the country. And the partner route for whoever is married to an Indonesian. Employed work is forbidden on the retirement and deposit routes — more on that in phase 5.

Checked against the official source

The official sources for this step

Step 1.3

Get a picture of what it's going to cost

Lead time:
1-2 hours with the calculator
Costs:
none

The big items here are different from anywhere else: the year's rent you pay in advance (on Bali a year's rent in one go is the norm), the agent and visa costs that come back every year, the private health insurance with evacuation cover, and the pet whose detour via Jakarta runs into thousands. The car isn't among them — it can't come. Work it out with your own choices.

Step 1.4

Take the decision together

Lead time:
no fixed one; take your time
Costs:
none

Four conversations that have to be had before the application. Healthcare in old age: there's no Dutch safety net, insurers apply entry limits (often seventy-five, sometimes lower) and the premium rises hard — whoever wants to grow old here without a lifelong guaranteed policy can end up uninsurable. The distance: sixteen to eighteen hours' flying with a connection, and six to seven hours' time difference. Everyday health: dengue fever is an annual reality on Bali and traffic is the biggest risk factor for foreigners. And the work ban: on the retirement and deposit routes you may not work — not even "a bit online for an Indonesian client". Whoever wants that chooses the remote route or lets the plan go.

Step 1.6

Choose your target date

Lead time:
five minutes, below
Costs:
none

Choose below the date on which you want to be standing in Indonesia. The plan works out whether that's feasible with what still has to happen, and from that moment watches the clocks: the ninety days of the eVisa and the deposit, the fourteen days of the registration duty, and the renewal you file a month before expiry.

Phase 1 read

You know what you're getting into. Now the arranging begins.

You've read phase 1 of the step-by-step plan for Indonesia. The full plan has another 32 steps ready for you: Your visa, Closing the Netherlands, The move and Arrival in Indonesia.

The plan counts everything back from your departure date, watches your deadlines and documents, and shows only the steps that apply to you.

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Phase 2 · Your visa0 of 6 steps open

The application runs online, but the practice runs through an agent — on the retirement route that's not a choice but the system. The clocks stack up: the eVisa ninety days, the deposit ninety days after arrival, the renewal a month before expiry with physical presence, and a passport that must still be valid for eighteen months at renewal.

  1. 2.1Make the route choice finala week of calculating and comparing
  2. 2.2Choose your agent: here he is the systemcomparing quotes 1-2 weeks
  3. 2.3Gather the evidence: income, balance, insurance — and your passport2-4 weeks
  4. 2.4File through the eVisa portal7-14 working days' processing time
  5. 2.5The deposit routes: pay in within ninety days, and don't touch itthe deposit itself is a bank appointment; the clock is ninety days
  6. 2.6After issue: the ITAS and the series of clocksan hour of reading that saves months later
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Phase 3 · Closing the Netherlands0 of 14 steps open

The familiar list, with two hard lessons. There's no healthcare treaty — you insure privately, with evacuation cover and with an eye on the age limits. And the tax treaty works like South Africa's: the Netherlands keeps taxing pension, annuity and AOW — the southern European exemption logic doesn't apply here.

  1. 3.1Arrange your healthcare: private, with evacuation covercomparing and taking out 2-4 weeks
  2. 3.2AOW and pension: the Netherlands keeps taxingthe notification is an afternoon; the sum is an evening
  3. 3.3The tax wrap-up: the M form and the protective assessmentthe M form follows in the year after departure
  4. 3.4Stop the benefits, and inform the SVBan hour
  5. 3.5Deregister at the municipalityfive working days before departure, not earlier
  6. 3.6DigiD, bank and your vote: keep the lines with the Netherlandsan afternoon
  7. 3.7Documents: apostilles and the passport rhythm2-3 weeks
  8. 3.8Partner comes along without a job of their ownonly if this applies to you
  9. 3.9Living partly in the Netherlands: the eight-month ruleonly if this applies to you
  10. 3.10The house in the Netherlands: sell, let or keeponly if this applies to you
  11. 3.11Children who stay in the Netherlands: DUO, healthcare and the houseonly if this applies to you
  12. 3.12Cancel what stops: job, rent, energy, subscriptions and schoolstart three months before departure; most notice periods are one month
  13. 3.13Stay reachable: DigiD, your phone number, your bank and your postarrange it before you leave; afterwards it takes weeks
  14. 3.14Student debt, remote work or your own business: what moves with youreport it before you leave; the consequences run for years
Phase 4 · The move0 of 4 steps open

The most honest moving rule on this site: take suitcases, not a container. The household-goods exemption exists, but requires an issued KITAS and a window of ninety days — and renting furnished usually makes it unnecessary. The car is excluded from every scheme, and the pet can only come via the Jakarta detour.

  1. 4.1Suitcases before containers: the luggage strategydeciding 1-2 weeks; a possible shipment 6-10 weeks
  2. 4.2The car: sell it, because taking it doesn't existsale 2-4 weeks before departure
  3. 4.3The pet: the detour via Jakarta, or the honest decisiononly if this applies to you
  4. 4.4The flight and the arrival planningbook as soon as the visa is there
Phase 5 · Arrival in Indonesia0 of 8 steps open

The permit is in; now discipline counts. The SKTT within fourteen days, the bank and the tax number, the year's rent you pay in advance — and the two rules that prevent deportations and dramas: don't work on a residence route that forbids it, and never buy land through a nominee.

  1. 5.1The SKTT: to Dukcapil within fourteen daysthe registration itself is a day; the clock is fourteen days
  2. 5.2The bank and the bridge: rupiah locally, euros at homeaccount within a week with KITAS
  3. 5.3Housing: a year's rent in advance, and never through a nomineesearching 2-6 weeks; the rent you pay per year
  4. 5.4The tax office: the NPWP and the 183 daysregistration as soon as the threshold is in sight
  5. 5.5Transport: the SIM, the scooter and the honest figuresthe driving licence in the first months
  6. 5.6Family: the international school, with the price tagonly if this applies to you
  7. 5.7Health in practice: dengue, the clinic and the plan Barrange it in your first month
  8. 5.8The two prohibitions, and the clocks in the diaryhalf an hour, and then never forget again

6 of these 32 steps only appear when your answers call for them: a pet, a car, a partner without a job, children staying in the Netherlands. That is the difference between a step-by-step plan and a checklist.

Three questions

Can't I find all this for free?

Yes. Everything in the plan comes from official sources, and they're listed at every step. Phase 1 above is the proof. What you buy is the work around it: which of the 32 following steps apply to you, in which order, with which deadline, and a nudge when something needs doing.

Does this apply to my situation too?

The plan first asks who is coming along, what is coming along and how you're leaving the Netherlands. Steps that don't apply to you don't appear; steps that only apply to you do. Is your situation slightly different from what's written? Ask your question at the step; you'll get an answer within two working days.

What if the rules change after I buy?

Then your plan changes with them. Twice a month we check every source; whatever changes is in your plan the same week, with the date. Your access lasts for your whole departure.

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