The upper side of this page talks about flight permits for unscheduled foreign registered aircrafts, especially for private jets, may they be revenue or non-revenue generating flights. Scroll down if you wish to read about other types of flight permits.
Indonesia DGCA allows only registered flight permit agents to apply for landing or overfly permits in Indonesia. As such, all foreign aircraft operators or international trip planning services companies have to appoint a local permit agent to apply the permit on their behalf. These agents are normally ground handling agents but some agents are merely permit agents.
A. Applying for Landing or Overfly Permits
The process of applying landing and overfly permits for Indonesia is the same. All the requirements are also the same, except that overfly permits don't require passengers manifest. This process takes around forty eight (48) working hours.
Indonesia flight permits need to have approvals from three different government institutions, in the following sequence:
1st, Ministry of Foreign Affiars (MFA)
2nd, Ministry of Defence (Mindef)
3rd, Ministry of Transportation (MoT)
MFA issues diplomatic clearances, Mindef issues security clearances and MoT issues flight clearances. The flight clearance / permit numbers that aircraft operators state in their flight plans are the numbers issued by MoT through Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). (Download sample of Indonesian permit / flight clearance).
The following documents are required to apply for an Indonesia landing / overfly permit: