Indonesia Passport Photo Size — You Don't Bring One

You do not bring a photo. Indonesia passport photo rules read off the issuing authority's own page, checked 2026-08-26.

You do not bring a photo.

An immigration officer photographs you at the Kantor Imigrasi (pengambilan foto dan sidik jari). Their backdrop is white.

What other sites get wrong

Each of these is repeated across commercial photo sites. We checked the authority's own page and could not confirm any of them.

“An Indonesian passport photo is 3 × 4 cm or 4 × 6 cm.”

No page on imigrasi.go.id states any size. We swept the whole domain through the Wayback index and found no specification page at all. Those figures come from embassy paperwork abroad, generalised into a national rule that does not exist.

What gets a Indonesia photo rejected

This authority publishes in Indonesian. Where we have the original wording we quote it; the rest is our English rendering of the same page. These are the reasons applications actually come back — more often than a wrong measurement.

Tidak memakai kacamata — no glasses; staff will ask you to take them off
Tidak memakai topi atau penutup kepala (kecuali alasan keagamaan/medis) — no hat or head covering except for religious or medical reasons
Tidak mengenakan pakaian berwarna putih — do not wear white; the backdrop is white and you will blend into it
Tidak memakai aksesoris wajah seperti piercing (tindik) dan lensa kontak warna — no facial accessories such as piercings, and no coloured contact lenses

How Indonesia compares, one rule at a time

Each page below takes a single rule and shows what every authority writes about it, in their own words. This is where Indonesia lands on each.

Can you wear glasses in a passport photo? — Not allowed
Can you smile in a passport photo? — Only part of it is written down
Can you wear a head covering in a passport photo? — Allowed, with conditions
Can you wear jewellery or makeup in a passport photo? — Not allowed
How old can a passport photo be? — Not applicable

Which route applies to you

Ordinary route

You do not bring a photo.

An immigration officer photographs you at the Kantor Imigrasi (pengambilan foto dan sidik jari). Their backdrop is white.

There is no printed specification for this route, and none is missing from our data — the authority does not publish one, because you never supply a photo.

Sources and what we could not verify

Paspor Republik Indonesia — Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi www.imigrasi.go.id checked 2026-08-26

also: malang.imigrasi.go.id · banggai.imigrasi.go.id

not verified: a head-office size rule — we swept the whole domain and there is none · whether the M-Paspor app ever asks for a face photo

Questions people actually ask

Do I need to bring a photo for a Indonesia passport application?

No. An immigration officer photographs you at the Kantor Imigrasi (pengambilan foto dan sidik jari). Their backdrop is white.

What size is a Indonesia passport photo?

There is no official print size. We checked the government source and found none — any millimetre figure you see elsewhere is not from the authority.