Pet travel route
Taking a dog or cat from Denmark → Bali (Indonesia)
What the official rules ask for on this route, for a family pet travelling with its owner. Enter your travel date and your pet’s details to turn it into a dated checklist.
Limited official guidance. The authority for leaving Denmark publishes little for this route. Everything it does say is here, with its wording. The Danish page explains the process in four steps but gives no fixed deadline or fee: what to do and when depends on the destination's own import requirements.
Limited official guidance. The authority for entering Bali (Indonesia) publishes little for this route. Everything it does say is here, with its wording. This covers Bali only, from the province's own rabies rules. For the rest of Indonesia, see our Indonesia page.
Headlines for Bali (Indonesia)
- Pets not allowed in
What your dog or cat needs
Bali doesn't allow pet dogs or cats to be brought in from outside the island. Its rabies regulation forbids bringing in rabies-carrying animals (dogs, cats, monkeys and similar) from outside Bali except for religious ceremonies, state security, science or conservation, and the governor's rules count keeping an animal as your own pet as a commercial purpose, which is forbidden from outside the island. Ask Bali's agriculture office (Dinas Pertanian dan Ketahanan Pangan) if you believe an exception applies to you.
Vet exam
Your own vet completes the health attestation or declaration
In most cases your own vet fills in a health attestation or a background declaration (a document you or your vet sign to give the authority the guarantees it needs). The vet often does a clinical examination, and sometimes specific vaccinations, treatments and blood tests are required before the trip. The destination's requirements say which documents apply.
Details and the official words
“I de fleste tilfælde skal din praktiserende dyrlæge udfylde en sundhedsattest eller en baggrundserklæring.”
Official stamp
Health certificate issued or verified by Fødevarestyrelsen, if the destination requires it
The certificate, database entry or import requirements tell you whether Fødevarestyrelsen only verifies the attestation or issues the whole certificate. You can have certificates and attestations issued by appointment in Glostrup, Korsør, Herning, Vejen, Aalborg and on Bornholm. Bring the right documents: the background declaration, vaccination attestations, health attestation and laboratory attestations where required.
Details and the official words
The page gives no deadline for how recent the certificate must be: the destination's own requirements decide.
“Du kan få udstedt certifikater og attester i Glostrup, Korsør, Herning, Vejen, Aalborg og på Bornholm efter aftale.”
“Du skal sørge for at tage de rigtige dokumenter med til aftalen hos Fødevarestyrelsen, herunder baggrundserklæring, vaccinationsattester, sundhedsattest og laboratorieattester, hvis det er et krav.”
“Sundhedscertifikat: Et officielt certifikat udstedt af Fødevarestyrelsen, som attesterer for dyrets sundhed.”
Good to know
- For Indonesia as a whole, the quarantine agency's rules on passenger baggage allow only guide, assistance or emotional support animals (at most 2) to travel as a passenger's baggage. Other pets follow the quarantine agency's procedure for pets from abroad (see our Indonesia page), but none of them may go on to Bali.
- Some countries' import requirements are extensive and slow. For some you must give notice and plan your trip up to 12 months before you leave. A country can also require an import permit, vaccination, blood test results and parasite treatments within set periods before the trip.
- Finding out what the destination requires, and having the right documents, is your responsibility. If the Danish authority's database has nothing on your destination, contact the destination's authorities or the Danish embassy there.
- These steps are for a trip that counts as pet travel: it exists because of the owner's need to travel, the pet is not sold and its ownership does not change. A trip that does not meet the three requirements follows the rules for moving animals.
- If you pass through non-EU countries, check whether each one has a special transit permit requirement. If you stay inside the international airport area, there are usually no transit requirements.
- Your pet may have to meet specific requirements to return to Denmark, and some of them must be met before you leave Denmark or the EU. Check the rules for coming home before you go.
- Planning to bring your pet back to the EU? After a short stay in a non-EU country you can skip the 3-month wait after the rabies blood test, but only if, before you leave the EU, your pet was vaccinated against rabies, passed a successful titer test, and your vet recorded both in its EU pet passport. So do the blood test before you go.
Common questions
Does my dog or cat need a rabies blood test to go from Denmark to Bali (Indonesia)?
No. The official rules we have verified for this route don't ask for a rabies blood test.
Do I need an import permit to bring my dog or cat into Bali (Indonesia)?
No. The official rules we have verified for this route don't ask for an import permit.
Will my dog or cat be quarantined in Bali (Indonesia)?
Not on the routes we have verified: the official rules list no quarantine for a pet that meets the requirements.
Does my dog or cat need a microchip?
The official rules we have verified for this route don't list a microchip requirement.