What the Indonesia visa rules mean for Gabon travellers
Gabon passport holders need an eVisa to enter Indonesia. You apply online, upload a passport scan and a photo, pay the fee and receive the visa by email. Apply at least one to two weeks before your trip and print the approval — some airlines and border officers ask to see it on paper.
The main option is the C1 Tourism Visitor Visa, which costs 1,000,000 IDR with a processing time of 5 business days.
Documents to prepare
Whatever your visa status, Indonesia applies the same entry conditions to every traveller:
- Passport validity: The UK government says your passport must have an expiry date at least 6 months after the date you arrive and at least 2 blank pages. The immigration directorate's visa-free page asks for a passport still valid for at l…
- Blank passport pages: Your passport needs at least 2 blank pages.
- Vaccinations: Yellow fever: WHO says Indonesia requires proof of yellow fever vaccination from travellers aged 9 months or over arriving from countries with risk of yellow fever transmission.
- Travel insurance: No official source we could read states a travel-insurance requirement for entry to Indonesia. Canada's travel advice tells travellers to get insurance that covers medical evacuation and hospital stays.
Indonesia entry rules compared
Indonesia lets 19 passports in without a visa, offers a visa on arrival to 79, issues eVisas to 94 and requires an embassy visa from 6. Gabon citizens are treated the same way as Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana and Burkina Faso. Overall the Gabon passport ranks #152 in the world with 27 visa-free destinations.
More travel options
Planning a longer trip in Asia? With a Gabon passport you can also visit 4 countries in the region without a visa, including Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore.
In the other direction, Indonesia citizens need evisa to visit Gabon.