Sources and what is not confirmed

Official sources, status of each fact, open points.

Status: September 2026. The Indonesian facts were checked against official pages in September 2026 for the sister site Immigration4Indonesia; the Berlin facts come from the September 2026 check for India2Berlin. Where sources conflict or we could not confirm a fact, the text says so in italics.

Main sources

• German Embassy Jakarta: national visas (checklist § 16d, July 2026), Foreign Office portal digital.diplo.de
• Apostille: HCCH status table; apostille.ahu.go.id (Ministry of Law, Directorate General AHU)
• Indonesian law: UU 18/2017, full text; KP2MI
• Nursing: Triple Win Indonesia; Faire Anwerbung Pflege Deutschland
• Recognition: AHK Indonesia, ProRecognition; ZAB; anabin: Indonesia (KMK decision of 30 November 2023)
• Language certificates: Federal Foreign Office; Goethe-Institut Indonesia price lists (July to December 2025)
• Statutes: AufenthG §§ 9, 16a, 16b, 16d, 17, 18a, 18b, 18c, 18g, 19c, 20, 20a, 20b, 81a; BeschV § 6; BMG § 17; StAG § 10
• Berlin: service portal 324659 and 329325 (LEA Berlin); FU Berlin and BHT semester-fee pages; BEMA (Arbeit und Leben Berlin-Brandenburg); Willkommenszentrum Berlin
• Salary thresholds: Federal Employment Agency newsletter 03/2026; BIBB (minimum training pay 2026)
• Scam warnings: Embassy Jakarta; Indonesian Embassy Berlin, police attaché (early 2025)

Not confirmed or conflicting

• Berlin-specific figures for Indonesians – how many Indonesian students, trainees, nurses or skilled workers live in Berlin: no reliable source found. Everything on this site about Berlin applies to Berlin generally, not to an Indonesian community that we have measured.
• Whether an SKCK can be apostilled, and whether German missions require one for work visas.
• Whether Law 18/2017 applies to Ausbildung participants (Art. 4(2)(b) excludes students and trainees; our reading, not officially confirmed).
• Triple Win cost details: the programme brochure dates from 2021/22 and may be out of date. The nursing minimum wage of €17.80 an hour from 1 July 2026 comes from a ministry press release of 25 November 2025; the regulation text itself was not found.
• Goethe-Institut fees for 2026; whether Berlin Goethe-recognised exam slots in Indonesia have waiting times.
• German level for Ausbildung (the law says "sufficient"; embassies ask for B1 in practice) and the exact language level for a Berlin study visa (C1 versus B2).
• Whether the German missions in Indonesia issue the study-applicant visa (§ 17) in practice.
• Berlin state fees for recognition of health professions; translation requirements of individual Berlin bodies.
• Processing times: Embassy Jakarta says about six weeks to three months in many cases, up to twelve weeks for § 16d. No current figure for study or Blue Card visas from Jakarta.
• Whether PPI (the Indonesian student association) has an active Berlin chapter and what it offers.

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