@Haydn ******

thank you 🙏🏻 😊

Jakarta Embassy never answers emails or phone calls and they just announced a temporary closure from March 14-20

Great airline, I’ve flown Finnair many times over the past 10+ years. Thailand is an important market for them and Nordic tourists are plentiful in Thailand. They definitely should be on the list. The Jakarta Embassy has a more up-to-date list of semi-commercial flights and you can see Finnair is on the list ( from the website: (

I’m in Jakarta (Canadian-Finn dual citizen) and my Indonesian girlfriend just applied for a COE and was accepted. I also applied and was accepted. We will both go under visa exemption (45 days and then can extend for another 30 days).

Tricky part is finding hotels that allow unmarried couples to stay together, but there are some (join the Thailand ASQ group and search for “unmarried”).

Apply for the COE at - you do need to buy insurance but you don’t need to buy the airplane ticket or hotel yet until you get pre-approval. But you should know which hotel you will stay at for the application.

@Philip *********

exactly, he said his “gf” so Filipina would be correct (although I hear it’s not politically correct these days to “assume someone’s gender” 😬)

@Philip *********

isn’t it Filipina?

@Izik ********

I know someone who just flew Singapore Airlines from Australia to Sg, then Scoot from Sg to BKK. He’s in BKK ASQ hotel now

@Scott ******

thanks! 🙏🏻 😊

@Scott ******

how long should the AirBnB reservation be? The original poster was talking about 9 months but presumably it would be much less needed?

You can also join the “Love Is Not Tourism - Finland” group and check the posts there. I was a member last year when covid started and there was good info back then. Not a member any more though (I moved to Indonesia)