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title: "Is Indonesia a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Indonesia (Bali): 70 Mbps internet, safety 98/100, healthcare 67/100 — essentials ≈ $528/month, so $3k lives \"like royalty\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/indonesia/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 80/167

# Is 🇮🇩 Indonesia (Bali) a good place to live?

Quality score **64/100** against essentials of **$528/month**. Bali's nomad scene thrives on fixed-wireless workarounds; median broadband is slow.

## The five metrics

Internet 28 70 Mbps median broadband, 72.8% online

Safety 98 0.3 homicides/100k (2022)

Healthcare 67 UHC service coverage 67/100 (2023)

Air quality 72 PM2.5 17.8 µg/m³ (2023)

English 55 day-to-day usability

## Beside the score, not inside it

Neither of these is part of the composite above, deliberately. Folding governance into a quality-of-life number would bury a political judgement where you could not see it or argue with it, and connection *price* is a different question from connection *speed* — somewhere fast and expensive and somewhere slow and cheap are different trade-offs, not one average.

- **Rule of law**: middling
- World Bank WGI estimate -0.21 · corruption control -0.54 · stability -0.61 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $10.18 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $1.71/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($528) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 3.8× | like royalty |
| $3,000 | 5.7× | like royalty |
| $5,000 | 9.5× | like royalty |

Essentials from the [Pint & Property basket](https://geo-parity.com/expenses/?tab=prices). Rank countries by your own priorities in the [interactive matrix](https://geo-parity.com/livability/).

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## Similar value-for-money

- [🇱🇰 Sri Lanka](https://geo-parity.com/livability/sri-lanka/) — quality 57.5, essentials $474/mo
- [🇸🇷 Suriname](https://geo-parity.com/livability/suriname/) — quality 72.7, essentials $605/mo
- [🇻🇳 Vietnam](https://geo-parity.com/livability/vietnam/) — quality 64.4, essentials $539/mo
- [🇱🇦 Laos](https://geo-parity.com/livability/laos/) — quality 44.9, essentials $377/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/cost-of-living/united-states-vs-indonesia/) · [retiring in Indonesia](https://geo-parity.com/fire/indonesia/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Indonesia a good place to live for remote workers?**: Indonesia scores 64/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 70 Mbps, safety 98, healthcare 67, air quality 72, english 55) — rank 80 of 167. Bali's nomad scene thrives on fixed-wireless workarounds; median broadband is slow.
- **How fast is the internet in Indonesia?**: Median fixed broadband is around 70 Mbps. Bali's nomad scene thrives on fixed-wireless workarounds; median broadband is slow.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Indonesia?**: Single-person essentials run about $528/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "like royalty" (5.7× essentials).

Safety, healthcare and air quality are objective figures from the World Bank (homicide rate, life expectancy) and WHO (PM2.5); internet speed and English are curated. City variation is real — verify locally. Agents: GET /api/livability.json?budget=3000.

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Source: Geo-Parity — https://geo-parity.com/livability/indonesia/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json