Bali tightens visitor monitoring

Bali police have rolled out a new system called Cakrawasi to track foreign visitors in real time as the island responds to fresh safety concerns. (balidiscovery.com) Police said on April 14 that Cakrawasi, short for *Cakra Surveilan Orang Asing*, is an online platform that monitors foreign nationals and is meant to reduce legal cases involving foreigners in Bali. Bali police chief Inspector General Daniel Adityajaya said hotels, villas and other lodgings are expected to submit guest data that matches original passports. (balidiscovery.com) The Indonesian National Police’s English-language site said the system was launched through a Cakrawasi command center in March and is tied to hotel registries. The same report said Bali received 7.05 million visitors in 2025, while Statistics Indonesia’s Bali office separately counted 6,948,754 direct foreign arrivals in 2025. (inp.polri.go.id) (en.antaranews.com) The push came days after the South Korean Embassy in Indonesia issued a safety notice urging Bali travelers to use extra caution after what it described as consecutive serious crimes targeting foreigners. Bali police answered by saying the island remains safe and by stepping up patrols in major tourist areas. (en.antaranews.com) (inp.polri.go.id) Police also said visitors can report incidents through a 24-hour emergency line, 110, with multilingual support. That matters on an island where international tourism has nearly returned to pre-pandemic scale and officials are still targeting 6.63 million foreign arrivals in 2026. (inp.polri.go.id) (jakartaglobe.id) Bali’s government has been tightening visitor rules on several fronts, not just policing. Provincial tourism officials have tied the 2026 target to a “quality tourism” strategy, while local authorities have pushed stricter compliance on visas, accommodation reporting and tourist behavior. (jakartaglobe.id) (disparda.baliprov.go.id) The data show why officials are acting now. Bali’s statistics office recorded 635,149 foreign arrivals in September 2025 alone, and August 2025 arrivals reached 682,866, with Australians accounting for 21.34 percent of that month’s foreign visitors. (bali.bps.go.id 1) (bali.bps.go.id 2) Officials say the immediate goal is to spot problems earlier, including false identities and other offenses linked to foreign suspects. The broader test will be whether Bali can keep reassuring embassies and tourists while asking hotels and villas to feed more guest data into police systems. (inp.polri.go.id) (en.antaranews.com)