Thread: Selling on Line In Bali

Welcome to the forum Balilover.

To answer your question concerning internet based business from Bali, you will still be required to have a business visa. This will apply regardless if your selling venue is web based, or on-line auction based.

One way to comply with the “letter of the law” is to keep your e-mail and ISP based in Australia, but even then you are not 100% free of detection. That being said, I know several expats who operate year after year on sosbud visas running very successful internet businesses out of Bali. Oddly enough, a 180 day single entry sosbud visa and business visa costs the exact same amount, so one can wonder why there would be any fuss.

Cheers, and good luck.

Thanks for that. :)

I'm not sure if I agree with some of Roy's assertions here.

...To answer your question concerning internet based business from Bali, you will still be required to have a business visa...

A "Business Visa" does not allow you to work in Indonesia. Neither does a "sosbud" (Social Visa).

...One way to comply with the “letter of the law” is to keep your e-mail and ISP based in Australia...

The problem with that is finding out, definitively, what "the letter of the law", actually is.
"Hiding" behind some ISP in another country might be useful. I'm not sure how you connect to the internet in Bali to connect to your ISP in Australia. Fancy proxy server magic somewhere, perhaps, but if you're physically here, you'll still need to jump onto Indonesia's communication backbone. Unless you go satellite (expensive) and I'm unclear about the details of how that works here.

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A "Business Visa" does not allow you to work in Indonesia

To the extent that a business visa allows a foreigner to conduct business within Indonesia, and one regards that business as their work, then sure enough a business visa allows one to work in Indonesia.

Phil, our business here in Bali is primarily internet based and I have been on a business visa all these years much to the satisfaction of immigration. I don’t see where an internet business here in Bali would require a kitas, but the OP can check with PT Bali Ide to be certain.

Calm down boys...Roy is right in theory

A multi entry biz visa PERMITS EXPORTING!!!!!!
In my book that's working!

It does not allow one to be EMPLOYED!!!!!
That's working for for someone else!

Hi It's me again The one that asked the question about "Selling on Line In Bali"
Thanks every-one for your replies. It's a little confusing.....
If I bought my lap top over with me How do I connect to the internet from Bali??
And is it expensive???