Do Macanese passport holders need a visa for Indonesia?

No, not for a visit. A Macau SAR passport is on Indonesia’s visa-free list, which gives a single entry and up to 30 days at no cost. What makes this one different from every other visa-free nationality is what is missing: Macau is the only entry on that list of 19 that does not also appear on the 97-entry visa-on-arrival list. Everyone else can buy the longer, extendable visa at the border instead. You cannot, so a stay of more than 30 days has to be arranged before you leave.

Visa required

No, for a visit

Visa-free stay

30 days, no extension, no conversion

Visa on arrival

Not available, the one exception among the 19

Longer stay

A visit visa applied for online before travelling

Show on arrival

Passport valid six months, return or onward ticket

Before arrival

Submit the arrival card

Entry requirements

• A Macau SAR passport valid at least six months, which is what the immigration service names as the document you present under the visa-free facility.
• A return ticket or an onward ticket to another country, named alongside the passport as what you show on arrival.
• The arrival card, which Indonesia asks travellers to submit before arriving.
• A visit visa arranged online in advance instead, if the trip runs beyond 30 days, because there is no paid alternative available at the border for this passport.

The free entry, without the paid alternative

Indonesia publishes its visa-free subject list and its visa-on-arrival subject list side by side. The first has 19 entries and the second has 97. Set them against each other and 18 of the 19 appear on both: Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Cambodia, Singapore, Myanmar, Laos, Timor-Leste, Suriname, Colombia, Hong Kong, Turkey, Brazil, Peru, Kazakhstan and Belarus. Macau is the one that does not.

For those other eighteen the two lists are a choice. The visa-free entry is free and runs 30 days, and the immigration service states it cannot be extended and cannot be converted into another stay permit. The visa on arrival costs 500,000 rupiah for the same first 30 days, but it can be extended once to 60 days in total and converted through a bridging visa. A traveller who lands intending a fortnight and then wants six weeks can simply have bought the second one.

A Macau SAR passport has the first of those and not the second. That is not a restriction on entering, since the visa-free route is the more generous of the two on price and identical on the first 30 days. It is a restriction on changing your mind, and it moves the decision about a longer trip from the airport to the weeks before it.

Good to know

• Being the one exception on a list of nineteen is worth checking for yourself, because no summary will tell you. Guides describe Indonesia as offering visa-free entry to a group of countries and a visa on arrival to a longer list, and for eighteen of the nineteen that framing is harmless because both apply. The immigration service publishes both lists on the same page, which makes the comparison a two-minute job, and it is the only way to discover that the fallback other travellers rely on is not there for you.
• Non-extendable and non-convertible are two different limits and the second one is the quieter of the pair. The immigration service says the visa-free stay cannot be extended, which people expect, and in the same sentence that it cannot be transferred into any other stay permit, which they do not. So the constraint is not simply that day 31 is unavailable. You also cannot move onto a work, family, study or limited-stay permit from inside Indonesia on this basis: anything of that shape begins with a different visa applied for before you travel.
• If the trip might run long, the visit visa is the instrument, and it has a clock of its own that catches early planners. The tourist visit visa gives a first stay of 60 days rather than 30, can be extended, and can be converted to a limited stay permit, and it is applied for online rather than at a mission. But the visa is valid for 90 days from the date it is issued, and if it is not used within that window a new application is needed. Applying months ahead of a trip is therefore its own mistake, which is the opposite of the usual advice.
• The formalities are short but they are not optional, and two of them happen before you reach an officer. Indonesia asks all travellers to submit an arrival card ahead of arrival. Separately, completing the visa-free formalities electronically beforehand produces an entry mark the immigration service says can be used at the autogates rather than a staffed counter. On arrival the officer marks an entry permit that is simultaneously the stay permit, so the 30 days runs from the date you land rather than from anything you did earlier.

Frequently asked questions

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Other passports for Indonesia

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Sources

Every fact on this page was checked against the official sources below on 31 August 2026.

• Directorate General of Immigration, Republic of Indonesia, "Daftar Subjek Bebas Visa Kunjungan": 19 entries, namely Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Tailan, Vietnam, Philipina, Kamboja, Singapura, Myanmar, Laos, Timor Leste, Suriname, Kolombia, Hong Kong, Turki, Brazil, Peru, Kazakhstan, Makau and Belarus, plus a line covering foreign nationals holding Singapore permanent residence entering through certain immigration checkpoints. Read 2026-08-31. https://www.imigrasi.go.id/wna/daftar-negara-voa-bvk-calling-visa/daftar-negara-bebas-visa-kunjungan
• Same source, "Daftar Subjek Visa on Arrival": 97 entries. Setting the two lists against each other, 18 of the 19 visa-free entries also appear here; Makau is the only one that does not. Read 2026-08-31. https://www.imigrasi.go.id/wna/daftar-negara-voa-bvk-calling-visa/daftar-negara-subjek-visa-on-arrival
• Directorate General of Immigration, Republic of Indonesia, A1 Bebas Visa Wisata: single entry, stay of up to 30 days from arrival, "Izin Tinggal dari fasilitas bebas visa ini tidak dapat diperpanjang dan tidak dapat dialihkan menjadi izin tinggal lain", cost Rp 0, no guarantor; on arrival you show a passport valid at least six months and a return or onward ticket, and the officer marks an entry permit that is simultaneously the stay permit; the pre-arrival electronic form yields an entry mark usable at the autogates. Read 2026-08-31. https://www.imigrasi.go.id/wna/daftar-visa-indonesia/A1
• Directorate General of Immigration, Republic of Indonesia, B1 visa on arrival (Rp 500,000, 30 days, extendable once to 60, convertible via bridging visa) and C1 tourist visit visa (first stay up to 60 days, extendable, convertible to a limited stay permit, applied for online, visa valid 90 days from issue). Arrival card requirement per the official e-Visa portal. Read 2026-08-31. https://www.imigrasi.go.id/wna/daftar-visa-indonesia/C1

Entry rules change without notice and the official source is always the authority. Confirm with the embassy or immigration portal before you book.