🇮🇩 Republic of Indonesia
Visiting: Take careLGBT visiting: High Risk
Visiting Indonesia is safe, though not without caveats. Same-sex relationships are criminalised, which places it 122nd for LGBT rights, so LGBT travellers should weigh this carefully. On the other side of the ledger, violent crime is close to non-existent, the 9th-lowest homicide rate, and women's safety is fair, at 67th. Where it lags is conflict: there is significant exposure, placed 148th.
Homicide
Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.
Indonesia: 0.4
Ranked 9th in the world for the lowest homicide rate.
Why this rank?
Less than half a killing per 100,000 people a year is well under the one that marks the safest countries.
Is it safe to visit?
Safe for a visitor. Indonesia's 2024 count gives one of the world's lowest rates.
Road Fatalities
Road-traffic deaths per 100,000 people per year — lower is better.
Indonesia: 11.3
Ranked 79th in the world for the safest roads.
Why this rank?
Eleven deaths per 100,000 people a year is under the world average of fifteen but past half of it.
Is it safe to visit?
Reasonable. Below the world average, though four in five deaths are on motorbikes, so a rented scooter is where a visitor meets it.
Conflict
Conflict deaths inside the country in the last twelve months, as recorded by the Uppsala conflict database, civilians killed on purpose, and any UN sanctions or court order over a war. The worst of those sets the colour. Lower is better.
Indonesia: 2.97
Ranked 33rd most conflict-affected country in the world.
Why this rank?
139 people died in fighting inside Indonesia in the year to July 2026, 40 of them civilians killed on purpose.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe in the Papuan highlands, where rebels and soldiers killed 139 people in the year to July 2026, 40 of them civilians. Bali, Java and the rest of the country saw none of it.
Freedom
Six freedoms rated 0–4 by Freedom House — protest, speech, press, religion, movement and due process. The weakest rating sets the colour, and the total places the country inside it — higher is better.
Indonesia: 5.93
Ranked 83rd least free country in the world.
Why this rank?
In Indonesia the lowest are religion and due process at 1. Total 12 of 24.
Is it safe to visit?
Democratic gains since 1998 with real media pluralism. Defamation and blasphemy laws are used politically, and religion and due process are the low ratings. Keep religion out of public conversation.
LGBT Rights
LGBT equality in law and daily life — higher is better.
Indonesia: Illegal
Ranked 59th least equal in the world for LGBT people.
Why this rank?
Not criminalised nationally, but Aceh province applies sharia canings and the new criminal code in force from 2026 bans all sex outside marriage. It counts as criminalised, and that is red.
Is it safe to visit?
Not safe to be open. Raids on private gatherings and public canings in Aceh have made the country markedly harsher within a decade.
Women's Safety
Women's safety — feeling safe out at night, political violence against women, a fair hearing in court, and how normal violence at home is, with the night figure setting a floor on the colour — higher is better.
Indonesia: 7.68
Ranked 67th safest country in the world for women.
Why this rank?
Seventy-four percent of women feel safe out alone at night and almost no attacks on women are recorded. The courts, rated below fair for women, are what pull the score down.
Is it safe to visit?
For a woman travelling alone, Indonesia is a reasonable choice.