Goods Across Borders · Customs rule card
Prescription Glasses → Indonesia
Purpose: Traveling · Verified: 2026-04-25
No restrictions on personal eyewear
Details
Personal prescription glasses are unrestricted entering Indonesia for the wearer's own use; Bea Cukai (Directorate General of Customs and Excise) treats them as personal effects requiring no separate declaration on the BC 2.2 form. Two pairs plus one spare clear without comment. Frames carried with retail blister packaging in quantities of five or more may trigger questions about commercial intent; the optometrist's prescription or original retail receipt clears the doubt.
Legal reference
Indonesian Customs personal effects
Practical advice
Personal-use prescription glasses clear Bea Cukai as routine personal effects with no declaration. Two pairs plus one spare clear without question. Keep the optometrist prescription or original retail receipt accessible if asked about more than four pairs (rare commercial-intent check).
Customs authority
Directorate General of Customs and Excise (DGCE / Bea Cukai) · https://www.beacukai.go.id