Komodo National Park Entrance Fee & Permits (2026)

Quick answer: Komodo National Park charges foreign visitors IDR 250,000 per person per day under PP 36/2024, covering trekking, wildlife watching and snorkelling; diving costs IDR 25,000 more. Permits are booked through the official SiOra app, not at the pier. GumilangTour handles the paperwork for every guest we take into the park.

If you have spent an evening comparing Komodo trips, you have probably seen four different answers to one simple question: what does the park itself cost? One page says IDR 250,000. Another says IDR 650,000 for the "Komodo route". A third quotes IDR 3,500,000 and calls it a premium conservation fee.

Only one of those is a real, current, government-set number. This guide sets out what the park actually charges, why the wrong figures spread so easily, and how the permit system works — so that when you compare boats you are comparing the boat, not the noise.

What Komodo National Park charges in 2026

Park fees are not set by boat operators or by tour companies. They are non-tax state revenue (in Indonesian, *penerimaan negara bukan pajak*, or PNBP), fixed by government regulation. The current instrument is Government Regulation No. 36 of 2024 (*Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 36 Tahun 2024*), which took effect on 30 October 2024 and replaced the decade-old PP 12/2014. The park authority's own website confirms PP 36/2024 as the basis for its ticket prices.

Here are the core rates, as announced by Balai Taman Nasional Komodo when it briefed operators on the change (all figures checked August 2026 — confirm at the source before you travel):

One detail matters more than any other on that table, and almost nobody states it plainly.

The entrance fee already includes the things you came for

Under PP 36/2024, the headline entry rate covers trekking, wildlife observation and snorkelling. That is the park authority's own wording — *traking, pengamatan kehidupan liar serta snorkeling*.

So walking the ridge on Padar, standing with a ranger while dragons move through the scrub on Rinca, and snorkelling a reef off Pink Beach are not separate line items. They are inside the entry ticket. The only common water activity charged separately is scuba diving, at IDR 25,000 per diver per activity.

This is why an itemised "route package" of IDR 650,000 or IDR 900,000 should make you ask questions. There is no such tier in the regulation.

What is charged per day, and what that means on a boat

Entry is charged per person, per day inside the park. On a day trip that is one charge. On a multi-day sailing trip it is charged for each day you are in the park — which is exactly why park fees on a 3D2N liveaboard look bigger than a day-tripper expects.

Because day-counting on overnight trips depends on your exact route and entry points, treat the arithmetic below as the shape of the cost and confirm the final day count with whoever runs your boat.

Why the published figures disagree so wildly

Komodo fee figures conflict online for three identifiable reasons: the park publishes its official tariff table as an image that cannot be read by search engines, a large cancelled fee from 2022 is still quoted as current, and several widely-shared "official" booking links point at domains that no longer resolve. Each is worth recognising on sight.

The park publishes its tariff table as an image

The official ticket page on the park authority's website presents the full tariff schedule as a picture of a table, not as text. That single formatting decision has an outsized effect: search engines and content sites cannot read it, so almost every third-party "Komodo fees 2026" page is reconstructing the numbers from memory, from each other, or from an operator's invoice that bundled several charges together. Errors copy sideways and harden into consensus.

When you find a figure you are relying on, trace it back to the regulation number. If a page cannot tell you which *Peraturan Pemerintah* its number comes from, it is repeating someone else.

The IDR 3.75 million fee that never happened

In 2022 the government proposed a IDR 3,750,000 annual membership charge for Komodo and Padar islands. It triggered a tourism strike in Labuan Bajo in August 2022, and it was cancelled. The then Tourism Minister, Sandiaga Uno, said in December 2022 that the plan had been "retracted and cancelled", and it never took effect on its planned 1 January 2023 start date.

Four years later, versions of that number are still circulating — usually rounded to IDR 3,500,000 and relabelled a "premium conservation fee". It is not a current fee. It is a dead proposal with a long afterlife.

The booking links that go nowhere

Several widely-shared guides point travellers at booking portals on domains such as siora.komodonationalpark.id or siora.komodopark.id. Checked in August 2026, neither resolves at all, and komodonationalpark.id is an unbuilt domain parked with a commercial web host.

Treat any Komodo "official ticket" link with scepticism unless it sits on a .go.id government domain or is the app itself. Money moving to a lookalike page is a real risk in a destination this heavily searched.

SiOra: the permit system you actually book through

Since 2025 the park has run reservations through SiOra, its own digital service, launched by the Ministry of Forestry through Balai Taman Nasional Komodo. It handles e-ticketing, zone navigation, self-guided interpretation material in a wide range of languages, and conservation permit services.

Practical points:

• It is an app, not just a web page. Android builds are distributed via siora.id; the iOS build is on the App Store.
• It takes cashless payment only — BRI virtual account, bank transfer, and Indonesian e-wallets. If you do not hold an Indonesian bank account or e-wallet, paying it yourself from abroad is awkward.
• That last point is the practical reason most visitors never touch SiOra directly: their boat operator books the party in. On any trip we run — a shared departure, a private charter, or a Padar-focused day out — we handle the registration and the park payment for our guests as part of the arrangements.

The system exists because the park manages carrying capacity — a limit on how many people are inside sensitive sites at once. Capacity figures are set by the park office and revised from time to time, so we deliberately do not quote a number here that might be stale by the time you read it; the park's own page is the place to check it.

What sits in your tour quote, and what does not

Komodo National Park fees are paid to the park, not to your tour company, and they are identical whichever boat you choose. Your tour quote covers the vessel, crew, cabins, meals and transfers; the park charges entry and any specialist activity permits on top. Splitting the two makes every quote you receive easier to read:

Park fees are a pass-through cost: they are the same for everyone, they do not change according to which boat you choose, and no operator can discount them. What genuinely differs between trips is the boat, the cabins, the crew, the route and the pace — which is what our comparison of Komodo boat trip costs and our guide to private versus shared boats go into properly.

A worked example: two people, three days in the park

Take a couple on a three-day sailing itinerary, both foreign passport holders, snorkelling but not diving.

• Park entry: 2 people × 3 days × IDR 250,000 = IDR 1,500,000
• Snorkelling: included in entry — no additional charge
• Trekking on Padar and Rinca: included in entry — no additional charge
• Diving: not applicable

If one of them dived twice, add 2 × IDR 25,000 = IDR 50,000. If they wanted to fly a drone, that single permission would cost more than all their other park fees combined — IDR 2,000,000 per unit per day.

Two things fall out of that example. First, the fees are meaningful but not trip-defining. Second, the expensive add-ons are the specialist ones, and the trap is assuming they are bundled. They are not.

Whether three days in the park is even the right length is a separate decision — our piece on day trips versus liveaboards works through who each format actually suits, and the month-by-month guide to visiting Komodo covers how sea conditions shift what is realistic. If you are still shaping the wider trip, the Labuan Bajo tours hub is the place to start.

What may change, and how to check

In April 2026 the Minister of Forestry, Raja Juli Antoni, said the government was studying an increase in the foreign-visitor entrance fee, commenting on 14 April 2026 that the charge for international visitors could potentially be raised. He was explicit that the proposal remained at the study stage, and no new figure has been set.

So the position as of August 2026 is: IDR 250,000 stands, a review is live, and no replacement number exists yet. Anyone quoting you a specific future fee is guessing.

If you are booking months ahead, the sensible habit is to check the park authority's ticket page again a few weeks before you travel, and to ask your operator in writing whether their arrangements assume the current rate. A fee review is not a reason to delay booking a boat — good boats in peak months run out long before tariffs change.