Your Arrival Plan for Indonesia

Essential Tasks

• Pass immigration: Show your passport and student visa. Your ITAS starts here.
• Change some money: There is a money changer at Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Jakarta.
• Get to your housing: From the Jakarta airport to the UI Depok campus takes about one and a half to two hours by toll road.

Quick Tips

Campus & Administration

• Visit the international office: At Universitas Indonesia (UI), the office is on the ground floor of the PPMT Building on the Depok campus, open Monday to Friday, 8 am to 4 pm.

Local Orientation

• Know your time zone: Jakarta, Java and Sumatra use Western Indonesia Time (WIB), 7 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Bali uses Central Indonesia Time, 8 hours ahead.
• Food: Rice with vegetables, tofu, tempe and meat, egg or fish is the daily meal. Most food is spicy.

Official Registration

• Report to your international office: UGM asks you to go within one week of arriving, to finish your steps to stay legally.
• Keep your ITAS safe: Your ITAS is electronic, so you can show it from your phone.
• Start your local registration: Your university tells you when to get your police registration letter (STM) and your temporary residence letter from the city records office (SKTT).

Social & Practical

• Learn how to get around: At Universitas Indonesia (UI) in Depok, the Commuter Line train runs from Jakarta to Bogor through Depok, and a free yellow bus runs on campus.