Overview

• The Ngurah Rai Immigration Office released new videos showing officers stopping beachgoers and cyclists in Nusa Dua and reminding them to have passports, with tourists in the clips receiving warnings rather than fines.
• A 100-officer Immigration Patrol Task Force in navy-and-black uniforms with body cameras now conducts spot checks across ten hubs including Canggu, Seminyak, Kerobokan, Ubud, Kuta, Sanur, Benoa, Jimbaran, Nusa Dua and Uluwatu/Bingin.
• Foreign visitors are instructed to carry passports or stay permits at all times and present them on request under Immigration Law No. 6/2011, which allows penalties for non-compliance.
• Authorities link the push to a rise in visa violations reported earlier this year and frame the patrols as a follow-up to President Prabowo Subianto’s directive to bolster Bali’s stability and security.
• Officials say checks will continue, the effort coincides with a new IDR 150,000 tourist levy that immigration may later help verify, and online reactions range from approval to safety concerns about carrying passports.