Bali I love, & like many other frequent visitors, have been coming here for 20 years+. However for how much longer will we put up with the total inefficiency at the airport Visa/immigration.
Take notice the ongoing delays are threatening to stop tourists coming to Bali & hence the revenue of the Indonesian government, the Balines government & everyone in Bali who want to continue to earn money from us tourists. Yes the hotels, restaurants etc & the ordinary Balinese people all rely on tourists coming to Bali for their only existence. 80% of all Balinese depend on the tourist trade for their sole income.
Bali is not the only holiday destination in Asia, but I’ll bet has the only airport where you wait 2 hours to be processed through visa immigration.
The average wage of an immigration official is around US$200/month = US$2400 PA. The annual revenue for the Indonesian government for visa on arrival @US$25 is US$50,000,000 ( 2,000,000 tourists x US$25)
Note: Any tourist who is required to wait more than 30 minutes to be processed through immigration is already thinking of not coming to Bali again
Bali airport today: Bali airport has only booth/windows for maximum 20 visa officers on face to face duty at any one time. On average the total number of officers manning these booths at peak or off-peak plane arrival time is no more than 12, leaving 40% unmanned, when the number of booths & officers really needed to process visas is more like 40 at peak times.
If you extend the figures, 20 booths + back up staff 10 = 30 staff on visa duty per shift = 60 per day @ annual cost per officer US$2400 = US$144,000 annual cost for 60 immigration staff.
Collection US$50,000,000 cost US$144,000 SURPLUS US$49,856,000. Yes that’s US49 million SURPLUS
COME ON INDONESIA, TOURIST ASSOCIATIONS, HOTEL & RESTAURANT LOBBY GROUPS MAKE THE AUTHORITIES USE SOME OF THE SURPLUS TO BUILD MORE VISA BOOTHS & EMPLOY MORE TRAINED VISA PROCESSING STAFF. MAKE THE OBJECTIVE FOR VISA PROCESSING IN BALI LESS THAN THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARD OF 30 MINUTES
