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Chat with Bali Zero on WhatsAppIndonesia has signalled its intention to introduce a golden visa scheme designed to attract high-spending foreign visitors and investors. The announce
Indonesia has signalled its intention to introduce a golden visa scheme designed to attract high-spending foreign visitors and investors. The announcement, reported by ANTARA News, follows a global trend of countries using premium residency instruments to draw capital, talent, and long-stay tourism revenue.
The golden visa concept, as discussed by Indonesian authorities, is positioned as a tool to compete with regional peers such as Thailand, Malaysia, and the UAE, all of which have launched or expanded their own investor and premium residency programmes in recent years. Indonesia has increasingly recognised that standard tourist visas and the existing B211A visa-on-arrival pathway are insufficient to capture the economic value of high-net-worth individuals who wish to spend extended periods in the country.
While specific regulatory details — including investment thresholds, eligible asset classes, and the precise duration of stay or residency rights granted — had not been formally published at the time of this report, the government's preparatory work suggests a structured framework is under development. Key ministries involved typically include the Directorate General of Immigration under the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, as well as coordinating input from the Investment Ministry (BKPM/BKPM) and the Ministry of Tourism.
Indonesia already operates a limited set of long-stay instruments, including the KITAS (temporary residence permit) tied to employment, investment, or retirement sponsorship, and the E33G retirement visa. A dedicated golden visa product would represent a meaningful departure from the sponsorship-heavy model that has historically characterised Indonesian immigration, potentially allowing direct investment into financial instruments, property, or state bonds as the qualifying mechanism.
The Kepulauan Riau bureau of ANTARA — Indonesia's state news agency — carried the report, suggesting the policy discussion has reached a stage where official communication to regional media is underway. No binding regulation or peraturan has been published to date.
This development is one we have been watching closely, and it signals a genuine shift in how Indonesia thinks about attracting foreign capital and long-term residents. For years, our clients have navi
gated a system built around sponsorship and employment relationships — frameworks that were never designed for the modern profile of internationally mobile wealth. A golden visa changes that calculus
entirely.
If implemented well, a golden visa would give Bali Zero a powerful new instrument to offer clients who currently sit in an awkward middle ground: too wealthy and independent to need an employer sponsor, but without a clean legal pathway to multi-year residency. We expect the investment threshold to be set at a level that targets genuinely high-net-worth individuals — likely in the range of USD 350,000 to USD 1 million in qualifying assets, based on comparable regional schemes.
The critical unknown remains the regulatory architecture: will property ownership count, or will it be restricted to financial instruments and business investment? That single design choice will determine whether this scheme is transformative for the Bali property and lifestyle market or primarily a financial-sector tool. We are monitoring legislative developments and will brief clients as soon as a draft peraturan emerges.
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