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Indonesia Passport Photo Checker
If you're applying for a Indonesia passport, getting the photo right on the first try saves you days — sometimes weeks. The Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi (Directorate General of Immigration) enforces strict biometric rules, and even photos that "look fine" to the human eye are routinely rejected by automated checkers. Our Indonesia Passport Photo Checker runs the same compliance tests right in your browser, in under 5 seconds, completely free.
Indonesia uniquely requires a red or maroon background for its 51×51 mm passport photos — one of the few countries with a colored background requirement. Passports are issued by the Directorate General of Immigration (Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi). The red background is specific to Indonesian documents; for international visa applications, a white background is typically required. That detail matters — most consumer photo apps still ship with generic templates that ignore these specifics. Upload your image above and we'll measure dimensions, sample the background, run face detection, and tell you exactly what to fix before you submit.
Everything happens locally on your device. Your photo never touches a server, which means no privacy risk — and no upload speed bottleneck for big files.
Official Indonesia passport photo rules we check
- Required size: 51×51 mm (602×602 px at 300 DPI)
- Required background: Red
- Issuing authority: Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi (Directorate General of Immigration)
- Print dimensions: 51×51 mm (2.01×2.01 inches)
- Digital size: 602×602 px at 300 DPI
- Background: Red
Common Indonesia passport rejection reasons
- Indonesia-specific: Uploading a white-background photo — Indonesia is one of the few countries requiring red or blue.
- Indonesia-specific: Confusing the year rule — Even birth years = blue; odd = red.
- Indonesia-specific: Photos where the red background is over-saturated and clips to pure red instead of a mid-tone.
- Aspect ratio drifted from 51:51 after a careless crop
- Soft focus or motion blur from a handheld phone shot in low light
- Background that looked white to your eye but reads as cream or grey to a calibrated scanner
How to pass the checker
Re-shoot in flat, even lighting
Stand 1.5 m from a plain wall matching the required red background. Use two soft light sources (or window light through a thin curtain) on either side of your face to eliminate the shadow that triggers most Indonesia rejections.
Crop precisely to 51×51 mm
Use our free image cropper to pull the exact 51:51 ratio. Position your eyes near the upper third of the frame and leave roughly 5 mm of headroom above the hair — the proportions Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi (Directorate General of Immigration) expects.
Replace the background if it's the wrong colour
If our checker flags the background as the wrong shade, run the image through our background remover and place it on the exact red Indonesia requires. This single fix resolves about 30% of all rejections we see.
Verify face coverage with the checker
Re-upload the corrected photo and confirm the face coverage score lands between 60–80%. If it's still low, crop in tighter; if too high, add headroom. Indonesia biometric matchers explicitly check this.
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Frequently asked questions
What colour background does an Indonesian passport photo need?
Red for applicants born in odd-numbered years and blue for applicants born in even-numbered years — a birth-year rule unique to Indonesia. The M-Paspor app rejects white and grey backgrounds regardless of quality.
What is the Indonesian passport photo size?
4×6 cm (40×60 mm) with the birth-year-dependent background. Upload as JPG under 500 KB through the M-Paspor app before booking an appointment at the Kantor Imigrasi.
How accurate is this Indonesia passport photo checker?
Our checker runs the same compliance tests automated systems at the Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi (Directorate General of Immigration) use — dimensions, aspect ratio, background uniformity, sharpness, face detection (powered by Google's MediaPipe), face coverage and centering. A "compliant" verdict here is a strong indicator your photo will pass; a "fail" verdict effectively guarantees rejection. The only checks we cannot perform are colour calibration on your specific monitor and physical paper finish.
Does ImageGates upload my photo to a server?
No — every check runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly. Your photo never leaves your device. That is unique among most online checkers and is why the tool also works offline once loaded.
What file formats does the checker accept for Indonesia photos?
JPG, JPEG, PNG and WebP up to 20 MB. Indonesia's Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi (Directorate General of Immigration) ultimately accepts only JPEG for digital uploads, so if your file is currently PNG or WebP, use our free converter after the check passes.