Indonesia’s Second Home Visa: Requirements, Cost and What You Get

What the Second Home Visa actually gives you

Most Indonesian residence permits are tied to something you are doing — working for a sponsor, running a company, retiring on a pension. The Second Home Visa is tied to something you have. Show the qualifying funds or property and the visa follows, with no employer, no local sponsor, and no minimum age.

That makes it the natural route for people who want to spend serious time in Bali without setting up a PT PMA or finding a sponsor, and who have the capital to qualify. It is not a cheaper alternative to a retirement or work visa; it is a different kind of permit built around assets rather than activity.

The two ways to qualify: deposit or property

You only need to satisfy one route, not both. Applicants are typically approved on a written commitment first, then given roughly 90 days to actually place the deposit or complete the property purchase — approval is conditional until the funds or title are in place.

Why the property threshold trips people up

The two routes are not the same size. The deposit route sits at roughly USD 130,000; the property route is reported at USD 1 million — a large gap, and one that has caused genuine confusion online, with some sites quoting USD 130,000 as if it applied to property too. Treat the two figures as separate requirements for separate routes, not interchangeable numbers.

Because foreigners cannot hold Hak Milik, the qualifying property has to be held under Hak Pakai. Whether a long leasehold villa can also satisfy this route is claimed by some agents but was not confirmed here against a primary source — if you are planning to qualify on an existing leasehold property, get that confirmed in writing before you count on it.

What it doesn’t let you do

The Second Home Visa carries no work rights. It does not let you take local employment, run a business, or draw an Indonesian salary — for anyone earning actively while living here, this is the wrong permit; see the comparison with the E33G remote worker visa if that describes you.

It is also not a citizenship or land-ownership shortcut. It secures your stay; it does not change what you are legally allowed to own. The property route is worth remembering as a residence qualification, not as additional ownership rights beyond what Hak Pakai already provides.

Applying, renewing and what comes after

• Apply through the official portal, evisa.imigrasi.go.id — the process does not require you to be in Indonesia when you file.
• Approval is conditional on placing the deposit or completing the property purchase within the window given, usually reported as 90 days.
• The permit renews once, for a further five years, taking total eligibility to ten.
• Some agents report a path to a permanent KITAP after a period of continuous residence; this was not independently confirmed here and should be checked directly.

Common questions