Indonesia eSIM
Data for Indonesia on Telkomsel and XL, from $5.89. It never expires, tethering is included, and you install Orbislo once rather than once per trip.
- Networks
- Telkomsel and XL
- Real speed
- 38 Mbps median, 7 Mbps for the slowest tenth1,644 travellers, rolling 90 days
- 5G
- partial, on the main islands and in the cities
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans for Indonesia
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $5.89 | $5.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $2.96 | $8.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $2.18 | $10.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $1.59 | $15.89 | |
| 20 GB | Never expires | $1.19 | $23.89 | |
| 50 GB | Never expires | $0.94 | $46.89 |
Every plan works the moment you land. Unused data returns to your wallet when the plan ends, and there is 100 MB of free rescue data on your account even at zero balance.
What 38 Mbps actually means in Indonesia
Travellers on Orbislo in Indonesia see a median download of 38 Mbps, measured across 1644 real sessions rather than a speed test we ran ourselves. That sits close to the Asia median of 43.9 Mbps, which makes Indonesia an unremarkable place to be connected, in the good sense.
The tenth percentile drops to 7 Mbps, a long way below the median. In practice that means Indonesia is quick when the cell is quiet and difficult when it is not. Download your maps and your boarding passes before you need them.
Maps, messaging, ride hailing and payment apps all work without complaint. Video calls connect but will drop resolution, and streaming is better set to standard definition than left on automatic. Tethering a laptop works for email and documents rather than for calls.
Which networks you will be on
Orbislo carries traffic in Indonesia on Telkomsel and XL. Your phone is not tied to one of them. When the network you are attached to congests or drops, the profile moves you to the other, and it happens without a prompt and without you noticing anything except that the connection kept working.
This matters more than the headline speed. Almost every travel eSIM sold today resells a single upstream agreement per country, so when that one network has a bad hour you have a bad hour with it and your only option is to buy a second eSIM from somebody else. A profile with more than one network behind it can make a decision you never see.
5G in Indonesia: partial, on the main islands and in the cities. A well provisioned 4G cell comfortably outruns a congested 5G one, which is why the figure above is measured throughput rather than a network generation.
What data costs in Indonesia
A 100 MB plan for Indonesia starts at $0.30, which is $0.00 a gigabyte. That is the number to compare between providers, because a headline price attached to a different allowance tells you nothing.
The comparison most providers would rather you did not run is cost per gigabyte actually used. Independent surveys of travel data put the share of purchased data lost to expiry between 20 and 35 percent, because a plan that expires on day thirty deletes what you did not get through. Orbislo data has no expiry date, so the gigabyte you paid for is still there on the next trip. At the same headline price that is 25 to 40 percent more usable data, and in Indonesia it means the effective cost is nearer $0.00 a gigabyte than $0.00.
Because nothing expires, the cheapest way to buy for Indonesia is to buy slightly less than you think you need and top up if you run out. Topping up takes about ten seconds and does not involve installing anything. Buying too much is the expensive mistake everywhere else and merely a neutral one here.
Landing in Indonesia
Install before you fly, on your home wifi. The profile downloads while you still have a connection you trust, then sits dormant until you land in Indonesia and it attaches to Telkomsel. Median time from tapping install to having service across all Orbislo orders is 41 seconds.
On landing there is one thing to check and it is the thing that goes wrong about sixty percent of the time people tell us they have no service: data roaming has to be switched on for the Orbislo line. It is off by default on both iOS and Android, and it has nothing to do with roaming charges here, because the plan is prepaid and there is no bill to run up. Turn it on for the Orbislo line and leave it off for your home line, and your home number keeps working for calls and bank codes without costing anything.
Coverage across Indonesia
The measurements above are aggregated across Indonesia, and a national median hides real variation. We publish separate figures for Bali, Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Lombok, because the difference between a capital and a coastal town is usually larger than the difference between two countries.
Outside the cities, coverage follows the same pattern it does everywhere: the main roads and the tourist corridors are well served, and it thins in the mountains and on the water. No travel eSIM changes that, because it is the same physical network the local population uses. What a multi network profile changes is which of the available towers you get to use.
Getting a local SIM in Indonesia
Since 1 July 2026 every new Indonesian mobile number must be activated with a face recognition check matched against the national population register held by Dukcapil. The ministry told operators to stop activating lines on identity and family card numbers alone.
What is restricted in Indonesia
- Unregistered IMEI: Operators must restrict mobile network access for any handset whose IMEI fails verification, sits on the black list, or has been flagged for restriction by a government agency.
- eSIM for machine to machine and IoT: Machine to machine and internet of things devices on eSIM inside Indonesia must use a local subscriber number and a local IMSI. Permanent roaming is barred for those classes, not for consumer handsets.
- Unregistered online platforms: Any app or website that offers messaging, voice or video calls, social media, payments or paid digital content to users in Indonesia must register with the digital ministry as a private electronic system operator. The sanction for failing to register is access blocking.
Worth knowing about Indonesia
- A visitor's phone needs no IMEI registration with Indonesian customs while it roams on a SIM from home. A foreign tourist who puts an Indonesian SIM in it can instead register the handset at a mobile operator's counter, which gives network access for up to 90 days.
- The customs authority allows USD 500 of a traveller's personal goods to be deducted from the customs value when a phone or tablet is registered by IMEI, and duty falls due on anything above that line.
- The IMEI rules carry an explicit carve out. Verification is not required of a user whose SIM belongs to a foreign operator and who is taking international roaming as an inbound roamer, which is how a travel eSIM connects.
- Devices using international roaming sit on the white list alongside legally imported stock, so a roaming handset is permitted rather than merely tolerated.
- A visitor's handset running an Indonesian subscriber number and IMSI goes on the grey list, where network access runs for no more than ninety days. A handset brought in as a passenger's own property, up to two per person, goes on the white list instead.
- The registry stores triplets of IMEI, IMSI and subscriber number in the central equipment identity register, mirrored in each operator's register, and both must be hosted inside Indonesia.
- Personal devices of a passenger or crew member are white listed up to two units per person, and goods sent by post or courier are capped at two per consignment.
- Personal goods are free of import duty up to 500 US dollars of customs value per person. Above that, customs charge a flat 10 percent duty, 11 percent value added tax and income tax of 0.5 to 10 percent with a tax number, 1 to 20 percent without.
- Crew of an aircraft or vessel get a far smaller allowance than passengers, 50 US dollars of customs value per person per arrival.
- A visitor staying ninety days or less has a choice: keep the home SIM and stay an inbound roamer with no IMEI paperwork, or register the IMEI at an operator counter to run an Indonesian SIM in the same handset.
- Prepaid registration for a foreign national uses the subscriber number plus a passport, a permanent stay permit or a limited stay permit. The identity and family card numbers Indonesians must give are not part of that route.
- Face recognition is demanded of Indonesian citizens, not of visitors. A foreign national is verified by an appointed counter officer who records name, document number, nationality and place and date of birth.
- Self registration through an operator app or website is written for citizens. A foreign national must register in person at an outlet, which rules out activating a local prepaid number before arrival.
- No operator may register more than three prepaid numbers against one identity. Machine to machine lines, operator test lines and some corporate lines are exempt and must be handled at an outlet.
- Starter packs must be sold inactive, with nothing working except access to the registration service, and that duty binds distributors, agents, outlets, market traders and private sellers alike.
- Once a subscriber has registered by face recognition, the operator may no longer register that subscriber using the identity number and family card number pair.
- Ministerial Regulation 7 of 2026 was signed on 19 January 2026 and took effect on promulgation, giving operators six months to move self registration off the identity and family card numbers and repealing articles 153 to 175 of the 2021 telecommunications regulation.
- Indonesia has a dedicated eSIM rule, Ministerial Regulation 7 of 2025. Only licensed mobile network and satellite mobile network operators may run eSIM services or activate a subscriber number and local IMSI.
- An operator may contract out the profile provisioning system, but that party must be registered as an electronic system operator in Indonesia and hold provisioning data security accreditation.
- Indonesia's single emergency number is 112, fixed by Ministerial Regulation 10 of 2016 to cover fires, riots, accidents, natural disasters, medical problems and threats to public order. Calls to the emergency call centre are free of charge.
- The 112 service is run by each regency or city government, and by the provincial government in Jakarta. A local government has to apply to the ministry before 112 is switched on in its area, so the number is activated district by district.
- The caller's number and location passed to the 112 system are exempt from the confidentiality duty operators otherwise owe under the 1999 Telecommunications Law, so the national 112 system can record the number and location a call comes from.
- On 3 June 2020 the Jakarta administrative court ruled unlawful the government's throttling of internet access in Papua and West Papua on 19 August 2019 and the blocking of data services across 29 regencies and cities in Papua and 13 in West Papua from 21 August to 4 September 2019.
- The same ruling covered the extension of the data block in Jayapura city, Jayapura regency, Mimika and Jayawijaya in Papua and in Manokwari and Sorong in West Papua, which lasted from 4 September until 9 September 2019.
- A Telkomsel prepaid number can hold at most 365 days of validity from credit top ups. If the SIM does not connect to the Telkomsel network for 90 days in a row, it drops into a grace period until it is topped up or given a package.
- During the grace period a Telkomsel prepaid number cannot make calls or send messages but can still use any data left in its package. Once the grace period ends the number is blocked and cannot be topped up until it is unblocked.
How Indonesia compares across Asia
- Speed rank
- 17 of 28 destinations we have measured in Asia
- Regional median
- 42.95 Mbps
- Consistency
- The slowest tenth still reaches 18 percent of the median
- Upstream networks
- 2, Telkomsel, XL
- 5G
- Partial, main islands and cities
- Next fastest nearby
- China, 41 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Uzbekistan, 37 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 4: Bali, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Lombok
- tenth percentile
- 7 Mbps
- Behind these figures
- 1644 travellers, rolling 90 days
