Rinjani Permit Registration: How to Book Your Trek in 2026

Quick answer: Mount Rinjani permits are booked only through the official eRinjani app, which reopened for new registrations on 3 October 2026 after a month-long suspension. Five of six routes are running. Every trekker needs a Ministry-registered guide and premium insurance. GumilangTour arranges the permit, guide and insurance as one booking; pricing is confirmed on enquiry.

What the Rinjani permit actually is

Mount Rinjani sits inside Gunung Rinjani National Park, and the only legal way in is a dated entry ticket issued by the park authority, Balai Taman Nasional Gunung Rinjani (TNGR). Trekkers call it "the eRinjani ticket" after the app that issues it. It is not a tour booking, not a guide fee, and not something a hotel desk can arrange on the morning you arrive. It is a named, route-specific, date-specific permit tied to a daily quota.

Two things trip up almost every first-time planner.

The domain most blogs still point at is not the park's. Typing erinjani.id into a browser in October 2026 produces a 301 redirect to a commercial trekking-package page rather than a government booking screen (checked October 2026). The park authority's own site is rinjaninationalpark.id, and registration runs through the eRinjani app on Android and iOS — not a web form.

E-Simaksi is a different system entirely. TNGR also runs a permit portal at esimaksi.rinjaninationalpark.id, and because it looks official, people start there and then stall. It covers six activity categories — research, education, film and photography, religious, social, and expedition or journalism — and it asks for an introductory letter, a proposal, stamp duty and a minimum of 14 days' notice (checked October 2026). None of that applies to a recreational trek. If you are climbing to see the crater lake, E-Simaksi is the wrong queue.

Is eRinjani booking open right now?

Yes. Online registration through the eRinjani app reopened on 3 October 2026, after TNGR suspended it on 1 September 2026 during the fire emergency on Mount Rinjani. Five of the six trekking routes are operating; Torean is not. This is the part no evergreen guide gets right, because the position moved three times in five weeks. The sequence, taken from TNGR's own announcements:

So if you read a planning guide written in September 2026 and concluded that Rinjani permits could not be booked at all, that was correct then and is wrong now. Registration reopened on 3 October 2026. Torean has not come back.

The practical lesson is not the dates — they will move again. It is that Rinjani's permit system is now actively managed week to week, and fire or weather can close individual gates mid-season. Any itinerary that depends on one specific route needs a fallback route written into it from the start.

Which Rinjani routes are open, and what does each cost?

Five of the six routes were bookable on 4 October 2026: Sembalun, Senaru, Timbanuh, Tetebatu and Aik Berik. Route fees changed on 3 November 2025 under Peraturan Menteri Kehutanan No. 17 of 2025, which also promoted the three main routes up a fee class. The figures below are the published non-domestic rate, per person, per day (checked October 2026).

Domestic trekkers on Class 1 routes pay Rp 50,000 on a weekday and Rp 75,000 at weekends and on public holidays; organised student groups of five or more pay Rp 25,000. On Class 2 routes those figures are Rp 20,000, Rp 30,000 and Rp 10,000. All of it is per person, per day. Confirm the current rate at the park authority's own notice before you budget — this is exactly the sort of figure that moves by ministerial regulation without much warning.

Our route-by-route comparison covers gradient, water points and which gate suits which fitness level.

Why "per day" matters more than the headline rate

Because the park charges per person per day, the number of days you declare at registration changes your park fee — and TNGR's own tariff notice states that adding days to an existing reservation attracts the tariff again. A foreign trekker doing a three-day Sembalun-to-Senaru crossing is therefore looking at 3 × Rp 250,000 = Rp 750,000 in park fees alone (checked October 2026), before any guide, porter, food, transport or insurance.

That single mechanic explains a question we get constantly: why a four-day itinerary is not simply "one more day of walking". It is one more day of park fee for every person in the party, one more day of guide and porter wages, and one more day of food carried up. If you are weighing the options, our cost breakdown for a Rinjani trek sets out which line items scale with days and which do not.

What do you need before a Rinjani permit is issued?

Five things: a Ministry-registered guide, premium-tier insurance, evidence of climbing experience, enough porters to meet the regulated ratio, and remaining quota at your chosen gate on your chosen date. A permit is not just a payment screen. Under the standard operating procedure the Ministry of Forestry introduced in 2025, a registration has to satisfy all five conditions. Miss one and your party does not pass the gate check, even holding a paid ticket.

1. A registered guide. Guides and porters must be certified and registered with the Ministry of Forestry. The ratio is capped: one guide to four trekkers since January 2026, tightened from one to five before that.
2. Premium insurance. Mandatory since 1 October 2025. The premium tier is the one that covers helicopter extraction, which is the only realistic evacuation from the rim in bad weather.
3. Demonstrated experience. Rinjani is officially classed Grade 4. The Ministry's director-general put the progression bluntly: start at Grade 1, clear Grade 3, then attempt Grade 4. In practice you evidence prior climbing experience by certificate or photograph, *or* you climb with a Ministry-registered guide — which is how the overwhelming majority of trekkers satisfy it.
4. Porter ratios. No more than two foreign nationals, or three Indonesian trekkers, per porter.
5. Quota. TNGR sets a ceiling of 700 trekkers per day across the six routes. It is not one shared pool — each gate holds its own allocation for each date, which is why "there is quota on Rinjani" and "there is quota at Sembalun on the 14th" are different statements.

Conditions 1 and 3 together produce the conclusion that surprises people most: a solo traveller cannot assemble a compliant booking alone. The permit presupposes a registered guide, and the ratio is enforced at the gate. The permit and the guide are a single procurement, not two separate ones. That is the real reason self-registration rarely saves what people expect — you still have to engage the guide, the porters and the insurance tier that the permit requires. We cover the rule itself in do you need a guide to climb Rinjani.

Worked example: registering a 3D2N Sembalun crossing

A real sequence for a party of six foreign trekkers walking in at Sembalun and out at Senaru, starting from Senggigi.

• D-30 to D-21 — lock the route pair, not just the mountain. Sembalun in, Senaru out is the standard three-day shape. Write the fallback in now: if Sembalun's gate shuts, the same itinerary runs in reverse from Senaru.
• D-21 — do the ratio arithmetic. Six trekkers at a 1:4 cap needs two guides. Six foreign trekkers at two per porter needs at least three porters. Those numbers are fixed by regulation, not preference, and they are the single largest driver of what a private trek costs.
• D-14 — insurance issued, in each trekker's own name, at the premium tier. Names must match passports.
• D-10 to D-5 — permit registration in the eRinjani app against the Sembalun quota for the entry date, with passport details and the declared number of days (three, here).
• D-3 — recheck route status. This is the step 2026 added. One look at the park authority's announcements page tells you whether your gate is still open.
• D-1 — transfer. Allow three to four hours from Senggigi or Kuta to Sembalun; most parties sleep in the valley so that a dawn start is realistic.
• Day 1, from 06:00 — QR verification at the Sembalun gate, bags checked for fire risk, then walk.

Peak months compress every one of those lead times. In July, August and September the popular Sembalun dates go well before D-10, and after the 2026 fire season the park's appetite for late additions is visibly lower. If your dates are fixed, read the best month to trek Rinjani before you book flights — and be honest with yourself using our difficulty and training guide, because Grade 4 is a real classification rather than a marketing line.

What changes on 1 April 2027

Two dates worth putting into a 2027 plan now.

• The annual closure returns. TNGR has closed all six routes from 1 January to 31 March in recent years as rainy-season disaster mitigation, reopening in late March. Treat January to March 2027 as unbookable until the park says otherwise.
• Guide and porter pass cards become mandatory from 1 April 2027. Every guide and porter working inside the park will need an entry pass card, valid for a year and renewable, with re-registration running through the Forum Wisata Lingkar Rinjani. For travellers this is mostly invisible — but from April 2027, asking whether your guide holds a current pass card becomes a fair and answerable question.

How registrations actually go wrong

Four failure modes, in the order we see them:

• Registering on the wrong system. E-Simaksi applications for recreational treks get rejected, and the 14-day clock is lost.
• Declaring too few days. Under-declaring to trim the park fee means the permit lapses while you are still above the rim.
• Buying basic travel insurance. It may satisfy a visa requirement; it does not satisfy the park's premium-tier rule.
• Booking one route with no fallback. In 2026, three of the six gates were shut at some point mid-season.

If you would rather not manage five regulatory conditions, a per-gate quota and a route-status watch from another country, that is the ordinary reason people hand the whole thing across. Our Rinjani 3D/2N summit trek and the shorter crater rim trek both include permit registration, registered guides and porters at the regulated ratios, and premium insurance, arranged as one booking. The rest of what we run on the island sits under Lombok tours.