"We will provide a visit visa exemption for delegates and foreign journalists participating in the G20 Summit," acting director general of immigration, Widodo Ekatjahjana, informed here on Thursday.
He said that the decision is meant to support those participating in the G20 Summit, which will be organized by Indonesia, as the current holder of the G20 Presidency, on November 15–16, 2022, in Bali.
With the visa exemption, eligible foreign nationals will be allowed to stay up to 30 days in Indonesia, but their stay would not be extendable, he added.
To avail the visa exemption, foreign nationals seeking to participate in the G20 Summit will need to provide a passport—diplomatic, official, or ordinary passport—with a minimum validity of six months, Ekatjahjana said.
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G20 delegates and foreign journalists will also need to show a return ticket or transit ticket as proof that they will be traveling to another country after the summit concludes and a registration proof or invitation letter for attending the event, he added.
"This policy is part of the Directorate General of Immigration's support for the success of our G20 Presidency event through immigration facilities," the acting director general remarked.
Earlier, the Law and Human Rights Ministry confirmed that it has prepared several steps to anticipate a surge in the number of foreign nationals during the G20 Summit.
"The first involves improving services when foreign nationals go in and out of the airport," secretary general of the ministry, Commissioner General Andap Budhi Revianto, said here on Wednesday (October 19).
Besides preparing several additional immigration counters next to the regular counters, the number of immigration service officers and other supporting facilities will be doubled, he added.
To anticipate visa abuse or overstaying, strict monitoring of foreign nationals will be conducted, such as through time permit duration evaluation. After the summit, the foreign national monitoring team will intensively perform its duty, he said.
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