Easily the business of RI to Foreign Affairs Immigration APEC Card Service

The Director of Immigration General digitized the APEC Business Travel Card. It was done to ease the travel of Indonesian businessmen overseas.

"That the use of the APEC card is to make it easier for the movement of international businessmen in particular Indonesia because we are members of APEC and this applies in the Pacific Asia region," says the Immigration Dirogation Hendarsam Maranshop over the socializing KPP APEC in Jakarta Center, Tuesday (20 / 10 / 2026).

Hendarsam's outlined 1,814 businessmen already used that card. Those with APEC cards get different facilities in immigration services.

"When using the APEC card, one example he doesn't have to line up, so he can use fast track. And then this is also from our time effectiveness and also psychologically, imagine that in four hours of waiting in line how a businessman is a matter of punctuality on time, this is very preserving performance between his business partner," in fact.

Hendarsam wants to go ahead and access business travel overseas. Especially Indonesian businessmen.

"There's something we need to move forward that not only do we want to expand we want to expand the national business to get this card. How access to the use of APEC cards could be really easy to get,

With digitization, Hendarsam believes the immigration business of the business will be easier. Hendarsam also wants the official Immigration page to register more accessible.

"We use digitalization, of course, no manual. Yes we want that for filing this APEC card using a digital website but it has to be user friendly. We also have open arms if any advice or criticism is related to the problem of applying it may not be easy with our open hands to correct ourselves,

On the same occasion, Director Visa and Travel Documents Eko Budianto convey the APEC card service process to the end of five days. Cost being issued from Rp2.5 million to Rp5 million.

"Then the time process of his 5 days service then for the present number of members of the state there are 19," he said.

A businessman with this card can eventually visit countries that are joined in APEC without a visa. Excluded by the United States and Canada.

"There are Americans there are Russians, but indeed there has been one privilege all this time to use the APEC card that doesn't use visas to get into the country unless the Americans and the Canadians are still in the process. But from 17 other countries the APEC card users entered the country did not use Visa," the impoverished.

Here's a list of 21 members of APEC: Australia