Costa Rica visa requirements for Indonesian citizens

Embassy of Costa Rica in Indonesia (Wisma Keiai, 7th floor, suite 706, Jalan Jenderal Sudirman Kav. 3, Jakarta 10220), unless one of the exceptions in the Directrices applies

Costa Rica's Directrices Generales de Visas split the world into four groups, and Indonesia falls in the third, the consular visa group. That sets conditions which are not those of an exempt traveller: the visa is single-entry, there are three months to have it stamped in the passport once authorised and sixty working days to use it once stamped, the passport must have 180 calendar days of validity, and the maximum stay is 30 calendar days, extendable to ninety. It is worth checking the exceptions in section five first, because they are broad. Anyone holding a United States or Canadian visa or residence allowing multiple entries, in any category, with at least one calendar day of validity on the day of entry, enters without a Costa Rican visa, unless it is a US transit visa of type C1, C2 or C3, which the directive expressly excludes. A Schengen visa of category C or D also works, in both cases multiple-entry only, as does residence in Scotland, Wales, England, Northern Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland or an EU country, with multiple entries or 90 calendar days of validity. Costa Rica keeps an embassy in Jakarta, so the consular route does not mean leaving the country.

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Fee

Tourist entry has no pre-authorisation fee for the passports we track (no paid ETA/eVisa-type system).

Required documents

• A machine-readable passport, valid and in good condition. The minimum validity depends on the group Costa Rica places your nationality in: one day is enough in the first group, the second needs 90 days (as do Colombians and Nicaraguans) and anyone who needs a consular or restricted visa needs 180 days. The stay granted by the immigration officer never runs past the passport's expiry date.
• Return or onward travel ticket (pre-purchased bus, flight, or cruise passage): Costa Rica requires it, though border enforcement is inconsistent.

How much money you need to show

US$100 for each month or part of a month of stay

The immigration officer may ask you to prove it on arrival.

Source: Costa Rica Tourism Board (ICT), page on entry requirements. Checked on 1 November 2026.

Health insurance

Not mandatory for this destination.

When travel insurance is mandatory → Travel insurance policies ↓

Transit rules

The maximum stay is set by the immigration officer on arrival, up to 180 days depending on nationality and discretion: there's no single fixed limit for all nationalities.