Filming permit shall be applied by your company to The Indonesian embassy in your country. We have the sample form for the application. Once the document prepared and you could submit the application via email to the embassy. Please contact us for the email address of the embassy.

Once submitted the application will be processed within 3-4 weeks and the Indonesian embassy will return to you with the news whether the permit granted. Then we can work on your visa accordingly.

In parallel to your national permit, there are some location that we need to have permission from local authorities and custom practice that we have to respect and follow.

The process to work on the visa is usually 1 weeks after we receiving the permit, depends on the completion of the document when you apply, and the holidays.  Starting to apply for filming permit and then after we have permit, we will apply for the journalist visa to the immigration. We are as your sponsor, will  submit the visa application to immigration, In total expect one month or less, though in some case it could be under 3 weeks.

Throughout Indonesia we are using 220 volts and 50Hz electricity. Depends on your location of stay, electricity are stable and available at anytime.

Since most of Indonesian are using 50Hz electricity, the lightings in all area are running 50Hz, if you are using NTSC system on your recording (30fps) there will be seen evident of flickering of any artificial lightings

Indonesia is an ATA/Carnet country. Please have the Carnet before entering Indonesia with your filming equipment

Internationally standard Hospitals are available on the most cities in Indonesia, and all cities has hospitals, in the villages we have smaller health facilities.

ATM machines are spread nationwide and easy to access. The machines take VISA, MASTERCARD for cash withdrawal. Please notice that there is limitation for onetime drawing cash money from ATM machine. If you plan yto pickup cash from ATM ,please make sure your international transaction in your card is open.

International health insurance are available on Major hospital in Major cities.

Emergency airlift Medical Evacuation are available on pre-arrange standby and the service needs to be paid in advance.

We are using Indonesian Rupiah (code IDR). Money Changer may available at most cities but not all cities. Banking for exchanging money are also available, but limited. It is advisable to bring descent local money and our fixer will have the backup for you in case you need more along the production.

Indonesia are consist of 17,500 islands archipelago. There are vary of transportation mode that needed to travel. For airports there are some small landing strip in the very remote area, for main major cities we have International standard airport facilities.

Indonesia using measuremengt in Metric system, which are centimeters, meters, kilograms, instead of using foot, pounds and miles. Though for sea mesurement we are using internationla standard in sailings system which are knbots, and nautical miles.