Indonesia's customs declaration is now part of the single All Indonesia arrival card, and your phone needs registering if you plan to use a local SIM.
- There is no separate customs form any more. Customs is one of the four sections inside the All Indonesia arrival card, filed free within 72 hours of arrival - it absorbed the old Electronic Customs Declaration and the SATUSEHAT health pass. One submission, one QR code, shown at the gate. Any guide still sending you to fill in an e-CD is describing a form that no longer exists on its own.
- Phones need IMEI registration. A handset brought in and used with an Indonesian SIM is blocked from the local networks within days unless the IMEI is registered at customs, with duty payable above a small allowance. Roaming on your home SIM avoids the whole thing.
- IDR 100,000,000 or more in cash must be declared, and taking that much rupiah out has its own rule.
- Drug offences carry the death penalty, and the warning at Bali arrivals is not decorative.
- Pornographic material is prohibited, and the allowance for alcohol is one litre per adult - Bali's duty-free shops sell in quantities well above it.
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