In short. In Bali you can give blood from age 17, weighing 45 kg or more, with haemoglobin of 12.5–17 g/dl and no more than once in two months, and a foreigner needs a passport: this is written in the Indonesian Ministry of Health standard. The PMI service collects blood: the point at Jl. Trengguli I No. 27 in Denpasar and mobile teams, with the schedule in their accounts. 1.2% of people in Indonesia have Rh-negative blood, the stock of such blood is small and it is kept up through donors "on call": if your blood is Rh-negative, register with PMI in advance. If blood is needed for a patient, the hospital makes the request, and the family may be asked to bring replacement donors.
Who can give blood. The donor requirements are written in Ministry of Health regulation No. 91/2015, the standard for all blood transfusion stations in the country. On registration the donor gives an ID number: a KTP, a driving licence or, for a foreigner, a passport number. So a foreigner's passport is accepted by the rules, and the point decides nothing here. The selection criteria under the standard:
- age from 17; those giving for the first time after 60 or again after 65 need a separate decision by a doctor;
- weight from 45 kg for a 350 ml portion and from 55 kg for a 450 ml portion;
- blood pressure from 90 to 160 over 60–100, a regular pulse of 50–100, temperature 36.5–37.5;
- haemoglobin from 12.5 to 17 g/dl, measured on the spot;
- a break after the last whole-blood donation of two months, the same for men and women.
You are not admitted with signs of anaemia, jaundice or breathlessness, or when drunk or under drugs, and a number of illnesses and conditions give a permanent or temporary deferral, for example a recent vaccination, an operation or a return from a malaria area. Before donating you fill in a health questionnaire and have a short check, all of it confidential under the standard. Blood group and Rh are determined at every donation and written in the donor's card: this is the simplest way to learn your group for free.
Where to give in Bali. Blood in the province is collected by the Indonesian Red Cross transfusion service, UDD PMI Provinsi Bali. According to Antara of 16 December 2025, the permanent point is in the UDD building at Jalan Trengguli I No. 27, in the Penatih area of eastern Denpasar. According to Made Darmaasih, head of the PMI Bali blood service, four or five mobile teams go out every day, and the service has six donor vehicles; mobile sites are, for example, Renon square, shopping centres and events. PMI publishes the schedule of visits in the account @sobatdonorbali, and the point itself runs the Instagram @donor_dong. Registration for mobile drives is open on the official page pmibali.online, where Telegram notifications can also be connected. The phone of the point, (0361) 227-224, comes from the Bali Discovery directory of March 2025; before travelling it is better to check it in the service's account. Opening hours change on holidays: in March 2025 PMI Bali named reception from 8:00 to 19:00 Bali time, on other days it may be shorter, so do not go without checking the schedule. Donating takes about half an hour including the questionnaire and check, the needles are disposable, and afterwards you are given water and a snack.
Rh-negative blood. In the Ministry of Health standard this has its own chapter on rare blood: the Rh-negative group is found in about 1.2% of Indonesian residents, so its stock is easier to find at large stations, and a hospital requesting such blood must turn to a station that has it. If there is no stock, the province's station looks for blood at other stations, and if needed the national station requests it from other countries. The standard directly advises Rh-negative donors to become "on call" donors: blood is stored from two weeks to a month, so, as PMI Bali explained to detikBali in June 2023, Rh-negative donors are registered and called when blood is needed, instead of keeping a stock that would have to be destroyed. By the estimate of the community Rhesus Negatif Indonesia, about 15% of people in the world are Rh-negative and in Indonesia less than 1%, and among foreigners in Bali there are noticeably more such people than among locals. What to do: find out your Rh if you do not know it, and if it is negative, register with UDD PMI Bali as an on-call donor and give a working phone number. The BIMC clinic in Kuta together with PMI is collecting its own list of Rh-negative donors among foreigners; ask the clinic about it.
If you or a loved one needs blood. Blood for a patient is ordered by the hospital: its blood bank requests the right group and component from a PMI station using the patient's sample, and you do not need to go and fetch the bag yourself. The standard asks to plan rare blood in advance for planned cases: childbirth and planned operations. If you or a pregnant woman in the family is Rh-negative, say so at the hospital at the first visit, long before the operation. When stock runs short in Indonesian hospitals, the family may be asked to bring replacement donors, donor pengganti: this category of donors exists in the standard, and a Poltekkes Denpasar study of the RSUP Prof. Ngoerah station shows that the practice in Bali is alive. Replacement donors give blood at a PMI point or in the hospital's blood bank, and they may have any group: they replenish the common stock from which compatible blood is chosen for the patient. So save in advance the contacts of acquaintances who are ready to come and give blood, and your community chat: requests of "donors needed" appear in Bali chats every week. The blood bank of the largest state hospital, RSUP Prof. Ngoerah, works at the hospital on Jl. Diponegoro, hospital phone (0361) 227-911; the list of hospitals with round-the-clock reception is in the guide to hospitals. The cost of blood and transfusion is covered by insurance if you have a policy; check the terms in the guide to insurance.
Before and after donating. Sleep well, eat a couple of hours before, drink water, and do not come after alcohol or with a cold: under the standard you will be deferred with such signs. Take your passport, fill in the questionnaire at the point in Indonesian or English, and the staff will help. After donating sit for half an hour, do not lift anything heavy that day and do not ride a bike at once if you feel dizzy. Whole blood may be given again no earlier than two months later. If after donating you get a temperature, a rash or weakness that does not pass, see a doctor: with a fever in Bali in the rainy season they also check for dengue.
What this means for you. Find out your blood group and Rh today, and write them in your phone's notes and in your insurance policy. If you are Rh-negative, register with PMI as an on-call donor: in Bali your blood is needed more often than you think. If you are in hospital and need blood, the hospital makes the request, and you should gather two or three acquaintances in advance who are ready to give blood as a replacement. Save 112 and the address of the PMI point at Jl. Trengguli I No. 27 next to the emergency numbers.