Bali tourist levy: what the Rp150,000 charge and 2025 receipts show

Bali’s foreign tourist levy is a mandatory Rp150,000 charge per foreign visitor, introduced on 14 February 2024, but collection has not matched the island’s visitor totals. The province recorded Rp369 billion in levy receipts during 2025, while independent reporting said only about one in three foreign visitors paid.

What is Bali’s foreign tourist levy?

The levy applies to foreign tourists visiting Bali and is intended to support cultural preservation and environmental protection, according to the Bali provincial policy described by the Jakarta Globe in its 3 January 2026 report.

The charge is Rp150,000 per visit. The levy began on 14 February 2024, according to the same report, which also said the proceeds are recorded as locally generated revenue and earmarked for cultural and environmental programmes.

How much did Bali collect in 2025?

Bali collected Rp369 billion during 2025, according to the Jakarta Globe, 2026. That was below the Rp500 billion target set in the province’s 2025 budget, the newspaper reported.

TravelText separately reported the Rp369 billion total on 6 January 2026 and said the governor described collection as nearly 35% of foreign visitors, providing an independent account of the same revenue figure.

Why is the collection figure lower than visitor numbers?

The comparison depends on which visitor count is used. IDN Research Institute reported that BPS Bali recorded 6,948,754 international tourist visits in 2025, while the provincial figure cited in its report was about 7.1 million foreign visitors.

Using the provincial count, IDN Research Institute reported that about 34.8% of foreign tourists paid the levy in 2025. Jakarta Globe likewise described collection as coming from roughly a third of foreign visitors, rather than from every recorded arrival.

How are businesses involved in collecting it?

Since August 2025, at least 150 accommodation providers had joined a programme allowing tourism businesses to act as collection points, according to Jakarta Globe, 2026. The report said participating providers receive a 3% incentive on levies they collect.

The involvement of hotels and other tourism businesses changes how visitors encounter the charge: collection can take place through approved tourism-industry endpoints rather than only through a direct government payment channel.

What does the levy mean for Bali’s tourism industry?

The levy links visitor compliance to funding for Bali’s cultural and environmental programmes, while its 2025 collection rate shows that recorded arrivals and paid levies are not interchangeable measures. For hotels and accommodation providers, the policy also creates a formal role in collecting a public charge.

Readers should therefore treat Bali’s arrival total as a measure of visits and levy receipts as a measure of payments collected; the two figures answer different questions.

Sources

• Jakarta Globe
• IDN Research Institute