Asylum outcomes by nationality · FY2015–2025

Indonesia: US Asylum Outcomes

Signature read: Indonesia runs +23.8 pp above the 48.3% national average, the strongest gap stamp on this page. Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 870 decisions FY2015–2025 (#54 of 196).

Data updated 2026-09-05

72.1%
Asylum grant rate
27.9%
Asylum denial rate
870
Asylum decisions

Indonesia in one line

Indonesia's asylum grant rate is 72.1% (upper-third grant rate, above the 48.3% national average) across 870 FY2015-2025 merits decisions (heavy-corpus volume).

72.1%
Asylum grant rate · Upper-third grant rate
870
Merits decisions · Heavy-corpus volume
+23.8 pp
vs. national average
27.9%
Asylum denial rate
Statistical data only. Indonesia's 72.1% upper-third grant history still mixes courts, case types, and counsel rates, not a forecast for a future merits hearing. Consult a licensed immigration attorney.

Indonesia vs all nationalities by asylum grant rate

Where this nationality's FY2015–2025 asylum grant rate sits among every tracked nationality (a case-outcome measure, not a quality ranking)

72.1% 46th of 196 higher than 150 of 196 nationalities

Nationalities, banded by asylum grant rate

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Source DOJ EOIR asylum merits decisions · FY2015–2025

Indonesia grant-rate neighbors

Upper-third grant-rate neighbors for Indonesia (72.1%): ABS-closest nationalities on the FY2015–2025 merits ladder, with the 48.3% national average marked.

Moldova
74.0%
Azerbaijan
74.0%
Stateless
73.8%
Kazakhstan
73.6%
Egypt
73.4%
Burundi
72.4%
Indonesia
72.1%
Burkina Faso
71.9%
Libya
71.5%
Rwanda
71.2%
Kyrgyzstan
70.8%

Nationalities with a similar asylum caseload

Heavy-corpus nationality peers by merits volume, orthogonal to the ABS(grant-rate) neighbors above.

Heavy-corpus nationality Indonesia: 870 FY2015–2025 merits in DOJ EOIR FOIA data. Statistical information only, not legal advice.

DOJ Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) FOIA bulk case data for Indonesia nationals; gap vs national average +23.8 pp. PlainImmigration computed grant/denial aggregates FY2015–FY2025; Merits volume is heavy-corpus at 870 decisions FY2015–2025 (#54 of 196).

Source: U.S. EOIR, Immigration Court Statistics Indonesia asylum merits outcomes FY2015–2025 · 2025

Every figure on PlainImmigration is rendered directly from federal immigration court records, no number is typed in by an editor. Indonesia's grant-rate and caseload figures are recomputed live from the EOIR case-level extract on every request, never hand-typed. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-05.