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Indonesia requires proof of a departure booking from everyone arriving on a tourist visa. Here's everything you need to know about using a dummy ticket to satisfy the onward travel requirement at DPS.
If your trip touches three or four countries in sequence, the proof-of-onward-travel question gets more complex. Each border has its own rules, and a single round-trip dummy ticket usually isn't enough.
The short answer: yes, dummy tickets are legal everywhere. They're just verifiable flight reservations issued through normal airline reservation channels. There's nothing illegal about holding a real PNR without paying the fare.