--- title: "All Indonesia Arrival Card (AIDC) 2026: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Tourists" type: "TravelGuide" lang: "en" canonical: "https://www.geokepo.id/en/panduan/all-indonesia-arrival-card-guide-2026" html_url: "https://www.geokepo.id/en/panduan/all-indonesia-arrival-card-guide-2026" category: "Practical How-To Guides" guide_type: "guide" summary: "How to fill out Indonesia's All Indonesia Arrival Card (AIDC): the 72-hour submission window, step-by-step instructions, common mistakes, and the scam to avoid." published: "2026-09-26T00:27:39.802756+00:00" updated: "2026-09-26T00:27:39.802756+00:00" author: "GeoKepo Editorial Team" publisher: "GeoKepo" license: "Editorial content © GeoKepo. Cite the canonical URL." --- # All Indonesia Arrival Card (AIDC) 2026: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Tourists # All Indonesia Arrival Card (AIDC) 2026: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Tourists Since September 2025, every international arrival into Indonesia has had to clear one new hurdle before landing: the **All Indonesia Arrival Card (AIDC)**. It replaced three separate processes — the paper immigration arrival card, the Electronic Customs Declaration (e-CD), and the SATUSEHAT health declaration — with a single digital form. A year on, it's still the step that trips up the most first-time visitors, mostly because the rules around *when* and *how* to submit it are stricter than they look. This guide walks through exactly what the AIDC is, who needs it, how to fill it out correctly, and the specific mistakes that get travelers pulled aside at immigration in Denpasar, Jakarta, and every other port of entry. ## What the AIDC Actually Is The AIDC is a declaration, not a visa and not an entry permit. It tells Indonesian immigration and customs who is arriving, what they're bringing in, and confirms basic health information — all in one form instead of three. You still need a valid visa (visa-free entry, visa-on-arrival, or an e-VOA) completely separately. Confusing the two is the single most common misunderstanding: having a spotless AIDC does not get you through the border if your visa situation isn't sorted, and vice versa. If you're flying into Bali specifically, there's a third, unrelated item: the **Bali Tourist Levy** (IDR 150,000), paid through the Love Bali app or on arrival. The AIDC, your visa, and the Bali levy are three separate obligations. Doing one does not cover the others. ## Who Needs to Submit One Every foreign national and every returning Indonesian citizen arriving by air, sea, or land must submit the AIDC before entry. There is no exemption for short layovers that involve leaving the airside transit area, and there is no paper fallback anymore — the old printed arrival card is gone. If you are traveling with children, each person needs their own submission; the form does not currently support a single family-group entry the way some countries' e-arrival systems do. ## The 72-Hour Window This is the detail that catches the most people out. The AIDC portal will not accept a submission earlier than **72 hours before your scheduled arrival**. Travelers who try to get it done a week in advance, out of habit or anxiety, simply find the form won't go through — and some give up and try again later, then forget entirely. The practical fix: set a reminder for exactly three days before your flight, not "sometime before I leave." If you have a connecting flight, use your *final* arrival time into Indonesia, not your departure time from your home country. ## Step-by-Step: Filling Out the Form 1. **Go to the official immigration portal directly.** Search for it yourself rather than clicking a link from an email, ad, or a "visa agent" site — more on the scam angle below. 2. **Enter your passport details exactly as printed.** Not as you'd normally write your name, not with a nickname — character for character, including any middle names that appear on the passport photo page. 3. **Double-check your passport number.** The most common data-entry error immigration officers report is a transposed or misread character — particularly the zero (0) and the letter O, which look identical in many fonts. Zoom in on your passport before typing. 4. **Enter your arrival date in the format the form asks for**, not the format you're used to at home. A form expecting DD-MM-YYYY will silently accept and misfile a date typed as MM-DD-YYYY if the day and month are both under 13 — you won't get an error, you'll get a wrong record. 5. **Complete the customs declaration section honestly.** This covers currency over the reporting threshold, dutiable goods, and any prohibited or restricted items (certain foods, plants, animal products, and specific medications). Declaring something rarely causes a problem; failing to declare something that gets found does. 6. **Answer the health section.** This is a shortened version of what used to be the standalone SATUSEHAT form — mainly confirming you're not arriving with symptoms of a notifiable illness. 7. **Submit and immediately screenshot the QR code confirmation.** Don't rely on re-opening the confirmation email at the airport — more below on why. 8. **Bring a printed or offline copy as backup** if you can manage it, especially for smaller regional airports where connectivity can be unreliable right at the arrival gate. ## Why the Screenshot Matters More Than You'd Think Airport Wi-Fi and mobile signal at the immigration hall are not guaranteed, and international roaming can take a few minutes to reconnect after landing. If you're relying on opening your email to show the QR code and you have no signal, you're stuck in the queue while it loads — or doesn't. Take the screenshot the moment you submit, at home, on your own Wi-Fi, before you fly. ## The Scam to Watch For The AIDC is **free** to submit through the official government portal. There is no legitimate reason to pay a third party for it. Several lookalike sites have appeared that charge a "processing fee" — sometimes framed as expedited service — for a form that costs nothing on the real portal. If a site you're on is asking for payment before it will generate your arrival QR code, close it and go find the actual government site. The same warning applies to people offering to "help" with it for a fee at the airport itself. ## What Happens at the Immigration Counter Assuming your AIDC is correctly submitted, the process at the counter is fast: the officer scans your passport and your QR code, cross-checks them against your visa, and you're through. Problems arise almost exclusively from the mismatches described above — a name that doesn't match the passport exactly, a passport number with a transcription error, or a submission made outside the 72-hour window (which means it may not have gone through the system's validation checks at all). If any of these apply to you, expect to be pulled to a secondary desk to correct the record manually, which can add anywhere from a few minutes to over an hour depending on how busy the airport is. ## Before You Fly: A Quick Checklist Print or save this to your notes app before departure day: - **Passport in hand, not memory.** Type every field while looking directly at the photo page, not from what you assume your own details are. - **Confirm your final Indonesian arrival time**, factoring in any layovers, and count back exactly 72 hours from it. - **Submit on stable Wi-Fi**, not on the go, so a dropped connection doesn't leave you with a half-completed form. - **Screenshot the QR code immediately** and save it somewhere accessible offline — a photos app, not just an email you'd need signal to reload. - **Separate the AIDC from your visa and, if landing in Bali, from the tourist levy.** Three different obligations, three different confirmations to keep. - **Ignore any site asking for payment.** The official portal does not charge a fee for this form. ## Why Indonesia Introduced a Single Form Before September 2025, arriving travelers filled out three unrelated forms — often on three different pieces of paper or three different apps — that asked overlapping questions and fed different government agencies. Immigration, customs, and the health ministry each ran their own intake, which meant duplicated data entry for travelers and duplicated processing for staff. Folding all three into the AIDC was meant to speed up the arrivals hall rather than slow it down, and for travelers who submit it correctly and within the window, it genuinely does: one scan at the counter instead of three separate checks. The friction that remains is almost entirely about people submitting too early, mistyping a passport field, or not realizing the customs and health sections are now part of the same form rather than something to handle separately after landing. It's also worth knowing that the AIDC record is what customs officers reference if you're selected for a bag check — so if you declared dutiable goods or currency over the threshold on the form, having that submission ready on your phone (via the QR code) speeds up that process too, rather than starting from a blank declaration at the counter. ## Quick FAQ **Does the AIDC replace my visa?** No. It is a declaration, submitted in addition to whatever visa or visa-exemption applies to your nationality and length of stay. **I already filled out an e-CD before — is that still a thing?** No. The e-CD, the old paper arrival card, and the SATUSEHAT health form have all been folded into the single AIDC. If you're following an older guide that only mentions the e-CD, it's describing the pre-September-2025 system. **Can I submit it for my whole family at once?** No — each traveler, including children, needs an individual submission. **What if I made a mistake after submitting?** Corrections at this point generally have to be handled at the immigration counter on arrival rather than by editing the online form, so it's worth getting it right the first time rather than relying on a fix later. **Do I need to submit it again for a domestic connecting flight within Indonesia?** No — the AIDC covers your international arrival into the country. Domestic legs afterward don't require a new submission. **Is there a paper version if I can't access the internet before I fly?** Practically, no reliable fallback exists anymore for most airports. If you have any doubt about connectivity where you're departing from, submit the form before you leave home rather than counting on airport Wi-Fi. Get this one step right and the rest of arriving in Indonesia is refreshingly simple — it's a single form, submitted once, inside a specific three-day window, using your passport exactly as it's printed. The travelers who get stuck are, almost without exception, the ones who tried to do it too early, typed a name or number slightly wrong, or trusted a site that isn't the real one.