Content creators
Filming and posting to your own channels.
Visa C5A
Make Content Here, Legally
Introduced in 2025, the C5A is the visa for creating social media content in Bali. Sixty days, extendable. It does not cover being paid by clients here.
Figures verified against imigrasi.go.id, Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi. Current for 2026.
This visa in figures
- Stay, extendable
- 60 days Stay, extendable
- All in
- 449 USD All in
- Government fee, included
- 1.5 m IDR Government fee, included
- Paid local work
- No Paid local work
What the C5A Creator Visa actually is
A tourist visa bans all work, including content that earns. The C5A is the category that was missing until 2025.
The moment an Indonesian client pays you for a shoot, a set or a class, the C5A no longer covers it. That is the Entertainment KITAS.
Entertainment KITAS- Sixty days
- Extendable. The limit has moved, so confirm the current one with us.
- Your own channels
- Content you make and monetise yourself, not work for clients here.
- A sponsor is required
- Arranged as part of the filing.
- Government fee included
- Around IDR 1,500,000, inside our figure.
Who it is for
Creators whose audience pays them, wherever that audience is.
Editors and producers
Working on your own output rather than a local client brief.
Travel creators
Documenting a trip rather than shooting it for someone here.
Brand partners
Campaigns paid from abroad, not by Indonesian clients.
Choose a different visa if you
- Are paid by clients in Bali Entertainment KITAS
- Are employed remotely from abroad Digital Nomad E33G
- Are here for one specific event C7C Arts and Skills Visa
- Are simply on holiday B211A Visit Visa
What it takes
A sponsor, and evidence that you are actually a creator.
- Passport
- Valid six months or more from arrival
- Photograph
- Recent, plain background
- Indonesian sponsor
- Required. We arrange this
- Proof of activity
- Channels or a portfolio evidencing your work
- Proof of funds
- Around USD 2,000 or equivalent may be required
- Health insurance
- Valid in Indonesia
- Arrival card
- Completed before arrival
- Filed for you
- Through the official portal
Proof of activity means live channels or a portfolio, not an intention. A creator with nothing published is a harder file than people expect.
What it costs
All in, government fees included. Deposits and balances required by regulation sit outside this and are yours to hold.
- C5A Creator Visa All in, sponsor included USD 449
- Government fee Around IDR 1,500,000, inside our figure Included
- Extension Per extension, biometrics handled From USD 219
- Bali Tourist Levy Separate government charge IDR 150,000
The government fee is inside our figure. The extension is priced separately because not everyone needs one.
How it goes
Five steps, and the first is a boundary check.
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01
Confirm who pays you
Your own audience, or clients here. The answer decides the visa.
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02
Evidence the work
Channels or a portfolio showing you are a creator.
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03
Sponsor arranged
Required, and arranged as part of the filing.
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04
Filed for you
Through the official portal, before you fly.
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05
Arrive and film
Sixty days, extendable, with the biometric appointment handled.
Against the Entertainment KITAS
Both are for creative work. Only one covers local money.
Who pays you
- C5A Creator
- Your own channels and brands
- Entertainment KITAS
- Clients in Indonesia
Paid local work
- C5A Creator
- Not permitted
- Entertainment KITAS
- Permitted
Duration
- C5A Creator
- 60 days, extendable
- Entertainment KITAS
- Six months, multiple entry
Sponsor
- C5A Creator
- Required
- Entertainment KITAS
- A company here
Price
- C5A Creator
- USD 449
- Entertainment KITAS
- From USD 2,190
The C5A is a fraction of the cost, and it stops at the point money changes hands locally. Using it past that point is the expensive mistake.
Read this part
Three things creators get wrong
The first is why the category exists at all.
A tourist visa bans all work
Including content that earns, which is exactly what 2026 enforcement is looking at.
See the enforcement pictureLocal clients are out
A paid shoot for anyone in Indonesia is outside the C5A, whatever the content looks like.
Entertainment KITASConfirm the extension limit
The visa is recent and the extension limit has moved. We confirm the current position before you plan around it.
Ask usIf this is not your visa
The neighbouring routes, and where people move when this one does not fit.
Entertainment KITAS
Paid creative work for DJs, photographers and instructors.
From USD 2,190
Digital Nomad E33G
One year for remote workers earning USD 60,000 from abroad.
USD 1,490
B211A Visit Visa
Sixty days, extendable, and it converts onshore.
USD 249
Visa extension
Thirty more days, with the biometric appointment booked for you.
From USD 119Film here without the grey area
Tell us who pays you and what you shoot. We confirm whether the C5A covers it or whether you need the Entertainment KITAS, then file.
Transparent pricing. No hidden fees. A reply in under two hours.