You will need several documents to complete the paperwork to register your child’s birth, obtain a birth certificate and submit your application for a passport for your home country. These include: both parents’ passports, birth certificates and marriage certificate; your KITAS, a letter from your sponsor (employer), as well as the Akte Lahir and Surat Keterangan Lahir which are issued by the hospital where you deliver.
Here is a brief summary of what you will need to do.
- You will need photos of your newborn. Be sure to have six 2×3 cm and six 3×4 cm photos made with a red background to accompany your baby’s Indonesian applications; not to mention the photos you will need for your home country’s applications (which may require a white background). Also, for any application you are submitting to any government it is a good idea to make multiple copies of everything.
- Be sure to report to the Indonesian immigration office within 14 days of the birth of your child to apply for your Birth of a Foreigner document, otherwise you are fined a penalty of US$20 per day for each day beyond the 14. These 14 days include the day your child was born, red holidays or other days that the immigration office may be closed, so don’t delay! The document you need to make the application for a birth of a foreigner is the certificate issued by the Indonesian Population Department (Kantor Catatan Sipil /Suku Dinas & Kependudukan).
- If you’d like some assistance with registering your child’s birth at the immigration office, you may need to pay the hospital’s records department to help you. The price is clearly posted. They can also provide you with a certified translation of the birth certificate, which you will need for your foreign passport application.
- You will need to return to the immigration office again, once you have your baby’s passport from your home country. You are given only 60 days after the birth of your child to return here and make the application for your child’s KITAS (note: this will follow the KITAS’s expiration of the father). Once the application is accepted, you should be able to pick up the KITAS card and newly stamped limited-stay KITAS visa in your child’s passport after only three days. Lastly, after you’ve got the passport and visa, don’t forget to apply for the baby’s exit visa, just in case you have to take the baby out of Indonesia quickly