davita wroteAs far as Immigration is concerned the price of all visas and merps etc are separated although a MERP is now mandatory and its validity lines-up with the Visa. Previously they always expired a month earlier...a real pain.
i.e. since June 2014 the fees are....
A spousal sponsored 5 year Kitap costs Rp3.5 M. The extension when the first has expired is Rp10 M.
A MERP for 6 months is Rp 600,000...for one year is Rp 1.0 M and for two years is Rp1.75 M
An agent may roll both into one, and give you a packet-price, but they are separate.
When applying for a 5 year Kitap it will be granted with the initial 2 year MERP; thereafter you will need to apply for a 2nd 2 year MERP and a subsequent 1 year MERP. These costs should be discussed with your agent or kept in mind if DIY.
I've been doing my KITAS for a few years directly with Immigrasi and no agent. It was either last year or the year before that the MERP was bundled with the KITAS, no separate fee or applications as they used to do it (perhaps with agents they still charge separate fee for the MERP, but as far at the KITAS goes, the MERP is included (and maybe this is just for spouse sponsored KITAS). I will be interested to see what the situation with the MERP and KITAP is this time around.
Every year going to immigration everything always changes, new rules, new prices, etc. I was supposed to get my KITAP last year but immigration said I couldn't apply in Bali because my husband has his KTP from Lombok, and the only way of doing it was to apply for the KITAP in Lombok, or change his KTP and family card to Bali, which we recently did. We were also told last year that there's a limit to how many spouse sponsored KITAS can be issued to an individual, that we need to sort everything out and go onto a KITAP.
