Indonesia e-Visa photo · 400 × 600 px

Checked and laid out to the official photo requirements of the Directorate General of Immigration, including the published head and eye bands. Checked by us on 2026-08-17.

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Official specification

Finished size	400 × 600 px this authority specifies pixels, not a physical size
Head height (chin to crown)	50–60% of the photo height (published as a percentage; no millimetre figure)
Eye height	50–60% from the bottom
Background	no colour is specified — the official approved sample itself uses Indonesia's customary red backdrop; keep it plain and even
File formats	JPEG / JPG / PNG
File size	up to 2 MB
Taken within	“recent” — no figure published

Full rules

File format JPEG, JPG or PNG, in colour.
Minimum 400 x 600 pixels, maximum size 2 MB.
The top of the head — including the hair — to the bottom of the chin must be between 50% and 60% of the image's total height.
The eye height, measured from the bottom of the image to the level of the eyes, should be between 50% and 60% of the image's height.
The layout and position of the photo must be proper — too close and too far are both marked unacceptable in the official examples.
Unrecommended photos: blurry photos, photos of anything other than a face, and expressive faces.
The photo is uploaded with e-Visa and eVOA applications on the official portal, alongside the passport biodata page, as a recent colour photograph.

Sources

https://www.imigrasi.go.id/upload/file/Syarat%20Foto.pdf
Directorate General of Immigration, Indonesia — official photo requirements (Syarat Foto) · we checked it 2026-08-17

Photos format: 1. File format using *.JPEG/ .JPG/ .PNG in color. 2. Min. 400×600px. 3. Max. size 2Mb 4. Proper composition. … The layout and position of the photo must be proper (Too close and too far are not recommended). … The top of the head, including the hair, to the bottom of the chin must be between 50% and 60% of the image's total height. The eye height (measured from the bottom of the image to the level of the eyes) should be between 50% and 60% of the image's height. Unrecommended photo: 1. Blurry photo. 2. Others than face photo. 3. Expression face photo.

https://evisa.imigrasi.go.id/front/info/evoa
Directorate General of Immigration, Indonesia — official eVisa portal, eVOA information · we checked it 2026-08-17

The documents to request an Visitor Visa are as follows: Full biodata page of passport … (format JPG/JPEG/PNG); Passport size photograph (format JPG/JPEG/PNG); …

Questions

What are the Indonesia e-Visa photo requirements?

From the official Syarat Foto sheet: a colour photo in JPEG, JPG or PNG, at least 400 x 600 pixels, at most 2 MB, with proper composition — the head including hair filling 50–60% of the image's height, and the eyes sitting 50–60% of the height up from the bottom.

Does the background have to be red? Or white?

Neither is required. The official sheet specifies no background colour at all — its own approved sample happens to use the red backdrop customary in Indonesia, and its rejected examples fail for composition, not colour. Keep the backdrop plain and even, whatever the colour.

Where do the eyes have to be?

Between 50% and 60% of the image's height, measured from the bottom edge — one of only a handful of authorities that publishes an exact eye position. We lay out so your eyes land near the middle of that band.

What gets a photo rejected?

The official sheet lists blurry photos, photos of anything other than a face, and expressive faces. Its composition examples also mark too-close and too-far framing as unacceptable.

Which applications use this photo?

Uploads on the official e-Visa portal — including the eVOA (electronic visa on arrival) — alongside your passport's biodata page.

Why is your output exactly 400 x 600?

It is the official minimum canvas, the percentage bands stay exact at that size, and the file lands far under the 2 MB cap — as well as under the stricter 200 KB figure some portal FAQ entries reportedly mention.

Our own assumptions

The official sheet publishes the head size as 50–60% of the image height (including hair) rather than in millimetres, so head size is shown as the official percentage band; our 55% layout is the middle of it, and the eye line of every finished photo is checked against the official 50–60% eye band.
No background colour is specified anywhere in the official sheet — its own approved sample uses the red backdrop customary in Indonesia, and the rejected samples are rejected for composition, not colour. Our background check therefore only verifies a plain, even backdrop of any colour; third-party sites claiming red-only or white-only are both reading more into it than the source says.
We output exactly 400 x 600 px — the official minimum canvas — and never enlarge it: the percentage bands stay exact, and the file lands far under both the 2 MB PDF cap and the 200 KB figure some FAQ entries reportedly state (we could not retrieve that FAQ text verbatim).
No recency figure is published in the photo sheet, so we do not invent one.
The official PDF is image-based with no text layer; the figures in our source record are transcribed from a rendering of it.
The chin is measured by 68-point facial landmarks; the crown comes from the top of the cut-out outline. Assumed accuracy ±5%, calibrated only on synthetic fixtures.

Where the authority does not specify something, we say so rather than pretending it does. The points above are our engineering choices, not official requirements.