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Standard permits 7–14 working days · KKOP zones 30–45

Drone Permit Bali

Prep to wrap · Bilingual on set

Full production support with drone permits

For productions that need more than a single permit. Location risk mapping, the whole clearance chain, and a bilingual coordinator on set who can talk to the authorities.

Send Treatment How It Runs
Crew working around a camera on set
8–20
Clearances · multi-day production
14–30
Working days · KKOP-adjacent chain
3–5wk
Campaign lead time we plan for
400ft
Ceiling outside KKOP

A local production house can source cameras and crew. Not all of them read PM 37/2020 — which is where retrofitting compliance days before a shoot begins.

  • Location risk mapping: KKOP, controlled airspace, tourism zones and coastal protection overlays for every proposed aerial
  • Permit chain through DGCA/DKPPU, AirNav/LPPNPI, airport authority, local government and SMS-FSC where required
  • A bilingual crew and an on-call translator for the authorities, through prep and shoot days
  • Daily on-site monitoring of approved flight windows, altitudes and coordinates, with a direct line to the AOC operator
  • Compliance pack for the client: approvals, risk assessments and post-flight reporting on request
  • Creative adaptation when the legal constraint means the shot design has to change

Prep to wrap

What happens across the production

It starts at the first location list, not at the permit form. By the time boards lock, every aerial beat already has a legal route or a named alternative.

  1. 01

    Location mapping

    Each shot tested against KKOP, controlled airspace, coastal protection, turtle nesting restrictions, and village or temple jurisdictions.

  2. 02

    Filing

    DGCA/DKPPU submissions 14 working days before flight, AirNav risk coordination, and Flight Security Clearance via SMS-FSC for sensitive areas.

  3. 03

    Shoot days

    A bilingual on-site coordinator tracks the permit windows, talks to the AOC operator, and adjusts the shot list in real time when airspace or weather moves.

  4. 04

    After wrap

    Authorities may ask for flight logs or visual proof of compliance. These are collated and submitted through the same written channels used for the approvals.

Campaign timelines usually allocate three to five weeks so that office approvals and local cultural permissions can run in parallel rather than end to end.

What a translator is actually worth

Key documents and briefings from DGCA, AirNav, the airport authority and local government arrive in Indonesian, and regulators cite specific articles of UU No. 1/2009 or raise KKOP constraints verbally on a coordination call. An English-only production hears an outcome, not the condition attached to it.

In mid-2025 a European series came close to resubmitting its whole concept. The first response from Jakarta read as a rejection. Translated properly, it was a conditional approval that needed altitude and buffer adjustments — a week of schedule saved by reading one letter correctly.

On set the same person relays instructions from the AOC operator and changes pilot behaviour when nearby traffic moves — a helicopter, an emergency flight. That is the difference between an avoidable infringement and a normal shooting day.

Production crew gathered around a camera setup

By genre

Where each kind of campaign runs into the rules

Fashion and tourism want sunrise beaches, cliffs and resort rooftops — which is most of the airspace that is hardest to clear. The workflow differs by genre because the obstacles do.

  • Fashion campaigns

    Treatment broken down early, flagging every aerial beat that needs KKOP clearance, a coastal permit or a village letter.

  • Tourism commercials

    Legal aerials near Tanah Lot, Canggu and Uluwatu by holding below 400 ft outside KKOP and adding written approvals where customary rules apply.

  • Advertising units

    Boards, budgets and schedules built around what can legally fly, with a second version costed before lock-off.

  • Episodic productions

    Repeated dawn flights near — but not inside — the 15 km airport zone, filed as a chain rather than as separate requests.

  • Protected coastline

    Turtle nesting beaches and coastal protection zones carry their own restrictions, mapped as an overlay on the airspace picture.

  • Temple and village land

    Customary jurisdictions handled as their own approval track, in parallel with the aviation chain.

When the hero shot cannot fly

The answer is rarely "no". It is usually a different tool, costed before lock-off rather than discovered on the tech scout.

  • Two versions of the board

    One built for full drone work, one using cranes, indoor FPV or helicopter plates. Both budgeted before the board is locked.

  • Moving the beat, not cutting it

    A 2026 food brand campaign in Sanur and Nusa Dua shifted three storyboarded drone moves outside the 15 km buffer without losing the creative intent.

  • The cost of finding out late

    Foreign units that used generic production service have had to change locations days before shooting, rehire through licensed operators and resubmit concepts.

Questions from line producers

Send the treatment and the location list

We map every aerial beat against the airspace, tell you which ones fly as drawn, and cost the alternatives for the ones that do not.

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