JAKARTA - Bali recorded 553,328 direct foreign tourist arrivals in April, an increase of 17.21% from the 472,070 visits recorded in March, BPS Bali said on June 2. The total remained 6.41% below the 591,221 arrivals recorded in April 2025.
Australian passport holders remained the largest group, accounting for 146,414 arrivals, or 26.46% of the April total. India ranked second with 46,513 arrivals, followed by China with 44,447, the United Kingdom with 24,248 and the United States with 23,986.
Bali recorded 2.02 million direct foreign arrivals between January and April, down 1.11% from the same period in 2025. The April recovery followed three consecutive monthly declines, with arrivals falling from 502,205 in January to 492,289 in February and 472,070 in March.
Star-rated hotels reported stronger occupancy despite the year-on-year drop in foreign arrivals. Their room occupancy rate reached 57.94% in April, up 5.40 percentage points from March and 0.71 percentage points from April 2025. BPS Bali described the divergence between arrivals and hotel occupancy as an unusual pattern.
BPS Bali did not attribute the monthly rebound to exchange-rate movements, but deputy Tourism Minister Ni Luh Puspa separately said rupiah weakness could make Indonesia more appealing to foreign visitors and encourage longer stays.
“We see this rupiah weakness as an opportunity for Indonesia because it will make Indonesia more attractive to tourists,” she said at the Bali & Beyond Travel Fair in Badung on May 30, according to Indonesia’s state-owned agency Antara.
The exchange-rate backdrop has increased Indonesia’s relative affordability for visitors from several of Bali’s largest markets.
Late-May Reuters market data showed that the Australian dollar bought 22.48% more rupiah than a year earlier. The US dollar gained 8.94% and the British pound gained 8.78% against the rupiah. The Chinese yuan gained about 16.9%. The Indian rupee, on the other hand, moved in the opposite direction, buying 2.20% less rupiah than a year earlier.
