Guide
Vaccinations for Indonesia: what NaTHNaC actually recommends
By Covered Abroad Research Desk · Last verified July 2026
The core list
NaTHNaC — the National Travel Health Network and Centre — writes the UK's country travel health guidance. For Indonesia it comes down to a short list plus one big geographic caveat.
Routine schedule first. Be current on the UK courses and boosters for your age and history.
Hepatitis A — recommended for all previously unvaccinated travellers, on the grounds that the vaccine is well tolerated and gives long-lasting protection.
Typhoid — vaccination is recommended for most travellers, with the emphasis raised for people visiting friends and relatives, long-stay travellers, and anywhere sanitation and food hygiene may be poor.
Hepatitis B — Indonesia is "considered to have an intermediate or high prevalence of hepatitis B", which changes the calculation for a lot of people who would skip it elsewhere.
Japanese encephalitis — "JE occurs countrywide, including Indonesian Borneo, with year-round risk". Vaccination is considered rather than routine, weighted by how long you are staying and how rural.
There is also a stated risk of chikungunya, and rabies is a risk with cases reported in domestic animals — which in Bali is a live and well-documented issue.
Yellow fever: no risk, but a certificate requirement
The same pairing that confuses people about Malaysia applies here.
There is no risk of yellow fever in Indonesia. There is separately a certificate requirement under the International Health Regulations, triggered by where you have come from rather than by Indonesia itself — arriving from, or transiting through, a country with transmission risk.
So a direct flight and a routing with a long layover can produce different requirements for the same destination.
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Check my policyThe three that need their own answer
Three risks here are genuinely location- or behaviour-dependent rather than list items, so we have given them their own pages rather than flattening them into a bullet:
- Malaria — the answer is completely different in Papua, in Bali and in Jakarta.
- Hepatitis B — it is blood-borne, so the risk follows what you do, not where you sleep.
- Typhoid — food and water, which ties directly to the tap-water question.
Everything else on this page is the standard conversation to have at the pharmacy.
What we can and cannot help with
To be clear about scope: we are not a travel clinic and nothing here is medical advice — your schedule is a conversation with a nurse or pharmacist who can see your records. We are an insurance introducer for international health and life cover for people.
One thing worth knowing from the policy side: failing to get a required vaccination is a general exclusion, so a skipped appointment can affect a later claim. Pre-existing conditions are excluded and cover is governed by the Regency Assurance policy wording.
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