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Driving in Indonesia
The rules of the road as our desk recorded them, native unit first.
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50 / 80 / 100 km/h · 31 / 50 / 62 mph
urban / rural / motorway
Required · Vienna 1968
Police on Bali run frequent checkpoints and fine foreigners riding without an IDP with a motorcycle endorsement. More importantly, riding without the correct category voids travel insurance - the most common reason claims are refused in Indonesia.
0.00% in practice - driving under the influence is treated as a criminal offence with no permitted threshold
Extensive tolled expressways on Java, including the trans-Java route; electronic cards only, no cash.
Motorcycles must run headlights at all times; cars need not by day.
No effective legal requirement and minimal rental stock.
Hiring a car with a driver on Bali or Java costs €35–45 a day and is what most visitors should do. Traffic in south Bali is severe - a 20 km transfer can take ninety minutes.