Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Indonesia waives visa requirements for 30 countries...

The Indonesian government said Friday it has officially waived visa requirements for tourists from 30 more countries, allowing them to stay in the country visa-free for up to 30 days.

In a statement, the cabinet secretariat said President Joko Widodo signed a presidential regulation on the visa exemptions Tuesday and the visa-free policy came into effect on Wednesday.

According to the regulation, the policy was made based on "reciprocal and beneficial basis."

The newly added countries are Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Britain, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirate and the United States.

They joined 15 other countries, including Indonesia's nine fellow members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, that had been earlier exempted from visa requirements.

Indonesia aims to increase the number of foreign tourists through the visa-free policy to 11 million this year from 9.44 million last year. Source...

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