What Bali's Overstay Fine Actually Costs Per Day, 2026

Overstaying a Visa on Arrival or extended stay in Indonesia has cost IDR 1,000,000 (roughly USD 65-70) per day for several years running as of 2026, charged for every day past your permitted exit date — but immigration fine schedules are set by government regulation and can change, so confirm the current amount directly at an immigration office or on the official portal if you’re already past your date, rather than budgeting against an older figure.

When a fine stops being just a fine

The per-day charge applies administratively up to 60 days of overstay. Past that threshold, Indonesian immigration treats the situation as a criminal matter rather than an administrative one, which can mean detention pending deportation, a re-entry ban, and a considerably more complicated exit than paying a counter fee. This distinction matters because the fear that drives this search is usually about a miscounted VOA window of a few days, not a genuine 60-day overstay — and for that far more common case, the process is a fine paid at the airport on your way out, not a legal proceeding. Still, the 60-day line is worth knowing precisely because the consequence on the other side of it is not the same kind of problem at all.

Where and how you actually pay

For an overstay under 60 days, the fine is paid at the immigration counter at the airport as you depart, in cash, before you’re allowed to board. This is not something you settle in advance online — it’s collected in person at the point of exit, which means having enough Indonesian rupiah on hand for a multi-day overstay is worth planning for, since airport currency exchange and ATMs add friction you don’t want at a gate with a boarding time approaching. Travelers who’ve gone through it describe the process as procedural rather than confrontational: an officer calculates the days, states the total, and you pay before proceeding to the gate.

How people actually miscount

The VOA window is 30 days from entry, extendable once to 60, and the day of entry counts as day one under Indonesian immigration rules — a detail that trips up more travelers than any other part of the calculation. Someone who lands on the 1st and assumes they have until the 31st has actually miscounted by a day, because the 30th day, not the 31st, is the deadline. Time zone confusion around midnight international flights adds a second, smaller source of error. If you’re within a few days of your exit date and uncertain, the safer move is checking your exact entry stamp date against the calendar rather than trusting memory, and if you’ve already extended once through the VOA extension process, your deadline is 60 days from entry, not 30 days from the extension approval date.

Overstay length	Consequence	Where handled
1-60 days	Daily administrative fine	Paid at airport on exit
Over 60 days	Criminal matter	Detention, deportation process
Any overstay	Possible future entry restriction	Recorded against passport

Checking your status before you’re at the gate

Because the fine is calculated and paid at the point of departure, there’s no dashboard or app that shows you a running total in advance — the number you owe is whatever an officer calculates against your entry stamp on the day you leave. What you can do beforehand is verify your exact permitted exit date, which for a standard VOA is 30 days from entry and for an extended one is 60, and plan your departure with a margin rather than cutting it to the exact last permitted day. If your situation is more involved than a short miscount — a B211A holder whose extension didn’t process in time, for instance — that’s worth resolving with an immigration agent before you’re at the airport rather than at the counter, since agent communication happens over messaging apps and email that need a working connection to actually reach you in time.

Force majeure and genuine emergencies

Immigration officials do have discretion for situations genuinely outside a traveler’s control — a cancelled flight, a hospitalization, or a natural event that closes the airport, Nyepi’s own 24-hour closure being one recurring example. In these cases, documentation matters: a hospital letter, an airline cancellation notice or similar evidence presented at the immigration counter can result in the daily fine being waived or reduced for the days genuinely outside your control, though this is handled case by case and isn’t guaranteed. This is different from simply losing track of the calendar, which immigration treats as an ordinary overstay regardless of how the miscount happened. If you expect a departure delay for a documented reason, it’s worth raising it with immigration or your airline as early as possible rather than discovering the fine calculation at the gate with no supporting paperwork in hand.

The connectivity angle that’s easy to miss

Anyone dealing with a visa deadline under pressure ends up needing their phone for exactly the things that matter most: checking an exact entry date against a calendar app, messaging an agent or immigration contact, or looking up the current fine amount on an official source before arriving at the airport with the wrong number in mind. A lapsed data plan at that exact moment turns a solvable, procedural problem into a stressful one conducted through airport WiFi under time pressure. If you’re traveling on a longer Indonesian stay and want to understand how visa and connectivity concerns overlap more broadly, our B211A visa guide and the general FAQ both cover related ground, and current pricing is worth checking if your plan is due to lapse before your actual departure date.