Pet travel route
Taking a dog or cat from Japan → 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 entering Indonesia publishes little for this route. Everything it does say is here, with its wording. This is the Indonesian Quarantine Agency's (Barantin) own short guide for pet dogs and cats coming from abroad, published in March 2026. It lists the documents and the online steps but gives no dates: no deadline for the prior notice, no age, no wait after the vaccination or the blood test, no minimum antibody level and no quarantine period. Confirm the details with the quarantine office (Karantina) at your port of entry before you travel. Bali has its own rules: pet dogs and cats can't be brought there.
How early to start
2 weeks
if your pet has no microchip or rabies vaccination yet (the least time the official waiting periods allow)
2 weeks
if it is already microchipped and vaccinated
Counted only from the officially fixed waiting periods. Vet, lab and paperwork appointment times are on top, so start earlier.
Headlines for Indonesia
- Rabies blood test required
- Advance notice to authority
What your dog or cat needs
Bringing a dog or cat into Indonesia: we summarised this from a short or older official page and it is still under review, so it may be incomplete.
Vaccination
Rabies vaccination record
Bring your pet's vaccination book showing its rabies vaccination. Barantin doesn't say how long before travel it must be given.
The official wording is ambiguous. Confirm this point with the authority.
Details and the official words
The guide asks only for the vaccination book; it gives no minimum age or waiting time.
“Dilengkapi buku vaksin dan hasil uji titer protektif antibodi rabies”
Blood test
Rabies antibody test result (protective level)
Bring the result of a rabies antibody (titer) test showing a protective level. Barantin doesn't give the level, the laboratory or how long before travel the blood must be taken; 0.5 IU/ml is the usual international standard, but confirm with the quarantine office.
The official wording is ambiguous. Confirm this point with the authority.
Details and the official words
“Dilengkapi buku vaksin dan hasil uji titer protektif antibodi rabies”
Paperwork
Health certificate from your country's veterinary authority
Your pet needs a health certificate issued by the competent official in the country it comes from. Barantin doesn't say how recent it must be; ask the quarantine office.
The official wording is ambiguous. Confirm this point with the authority.
Details and the official words
Export inspection and AQS export quarantine certificate: Bring your pet and all the original certificates to the AQS at the reserved time (an agent needs a power of attorney from you). The inspection and the English export quarantine certificate usually take 30 to 60 minutes. The inspection is done within 10 days before departure unless the destination sets a different period.
If the destination's rules set a different period for the inspection, follow that; our 10-day window is Japan's general one.
“Pengirim/ pemilik memastikan kelengkapan persyaratan karantina dari negara asal yaitu Sertifikat Kesehatan yang diterbitkan oleh Pejabat berwenang di negara asal”
“Export inspection is conducted within 10 days before departure, unless conditioned by the destination country.”
Notice
Register with SSMQC and send Barantin's prior notice before you leave
Register in Barantin's SSMQC system, then fill in and send the prior notice at notice.karantinaindonesia.go.id. The prior notice must be sent before your pet leaves its country of origin.
Details and the official words
“Pengirim/ pemilik melakukan registrasi melalui SSMQC”
“wajib dilakukan sebelum keberangkatan dari negara asal”
On arrival
Report to quarantine on arrival
At the airport, port or land border where you arrive, report your pet and hand it over with its documents to the quarantine officers. If it is healthy and free of quarantine diseases, a quarantine vet releases it with a release certificate (Sertifikat Pelepasan Karantina).
Details and the official words
“pengirim/ pemilik wajib melaporkan dan menyerahkan hewan berikut kelengkapan persyaratannya kepada petugas karantina untuk keperluan tindakan karantina”
“akan dilakukan pembebasan oleh Dokter Hewan Karantina dengan menerbitkan Sertifikat Pelepasan Karantina.”
Notice
Apply for export inspection (NACCS)
Once your travel is confirmed, apply to the Animal Quarantine Service through NACCS (or by email to the AQS where you want the inspection), at least 14 days before the date you want. Attach the certificates from your vet clinic, fill in your preferred date and time in the remarks, and wait for AQS to reply: you cannot reserve a time before you have applied.
Details and the official words
“at least 14 days before the desired date of inspection”
Good to know
- Your pet can't come from a country that currently has a rabies outbreak. Barantin doesn't publish a list, so ask the quarantine office if rabies is present where your pet lives.
- Guide, assistance and emotional support animals (at most 2) can travel as the owner's baggage under Barantin's 2024 baggage rules, with a letter from a mental health professional in the home country, at least 6 months of health history, rabies and distemper vaccination, a microchip or ID book, a pet passport and a rabies antibody test. Their owners fill in the All Indonesia arrival form.
- Your pet must meet both the destination country's entry conditions and Japan's exit conditions. Check the destination's conditions with its animal quarantine authority or its embassy in Japan.
- Might your pet come back to Japan? Check Japan's re-entry conditions before you leave: depending on the measures taken, the import quarantine can be under 12 hours or up to 180 days. Blood sampling and the rabies antibody test must be done at a vet clinic and a MAFF-designated laboratory.
- Check that your pet's microchip can be read before the day of export inspection.
Common questions
Does my dog or cat need a rabies blood test to go from Japan to Indonesia?
Yes: Bring the result of a rabies antibody (titer) test showing a protective level.
Do I need an import permit to bring my dog or cat into Indonesia?
We couldn't find this in our summary of the rules, but that summary is short and still under review. Ask the official authority before you rely on it.
Will my dog or cat be quarantined in Indonesia?
We couldn't find this in our summary of the rules, but that summary is short and still under review. Ask the official authority before you rely on it.
Does my dog or cat need a microchip?
We couldn't find this in our summary of the rules, but that summary is short and still under review. Ask the official authority before you rely on it.