Does PureVPN work in Indonesia?

As of Sep 10, 2026, PureVPN was last confirmed working in Indonesia on Jul 23, 2026, and we have not re-verified it since.

Status: working (unconfirmed since Jul 23, 2026)
Confidence: low
Last verified: Jul 23, 2026
Method: No special mode needed; standard protocols apply. www.purevpn.com measures clean from inside Indonesia on every major ISP (OONI 2026), so the India/Egypt-style website block did not replicate here; site reachable in-country for signup and app download. Future cycles: query OONI with domain=, not input=.

PureVPN was last confirmed working in Indonesia on Jul 23, 2026. We have not re-verified it since. Get PureVPN

What we're seeing

The corrected OONI query settled this cell on July 22, 2026: 330 in-country measurements of www.purevpn.com over the last 51 days came back 329 OK with zero confirmed blocks, and 2026 year-to-date results are clean across roughly 50 Indonesian networks including Telkom (426 of 427 OK), Telkomsel, Indosat, and XL. Indonesia's only blocking mechanism is ISP-level DNS filtering of websites, so uniform clean results on ISP resolvers are direct evidence PureVPN is not on the enforced list; the website block we confirmed for PureVPN in India and Egypt did not replicate here. No Indonesian user complaint about PureVPN exists in any channel we can reach. Low confidence because this rests on website-layer measurements plus the country's no-tunnel-interference model, not fresh direct tunnel reports.

Sources for the above:

user_report (Jul 22, 2026): OONI: no ID measurements of purevpn.com since May 2026; www variant rate-limited; given the per-ISP website blocks found in India and Egypt, a quiet Trust Positif listing cannot be ruled out; absence of data, not evidence of working
vendor (Jul 22, 2026): Vendor status page all-operational with no Indonesia or Asia incidents; vendor-controlled, weak
reddit (Jul 22, 2026): Background (archive): zero blocking reports ever; most recent chatter is 2023-2024 users buying PureVPN via Tokopedia and using it normally; positive but stale
news (Jul 22, 2026): Search sweep (snippet-observed): 2026 Komdigi blocking news covers gambling sites, Wikimedia and media outlets; VPNs appear only as the workaround; no blocking reports for PureVPN in Indonesian-language queries
user_report (Jul 22, 2026): OONI last 51 days from ID probes: 330 measurements, 329 OK, 0 anomalies, 0 confirmed blocks, 1 failure; daily coverage through Jul 21; proves website reachability, not tunnel function

Common questions

Is using a VPN legal in Indonesia?

Yes. No law bans VPN use. The government has only floated permit rules for providers and once urged people to uninstall free VPN apps during the 2019 social media restrictions.

Do I need obfuscation in Indonesia?

No. Indonesia blocks websites at the DNS level (Trust Positif), not VPN tunnels. Standard protocols connect normally on the major ISPs as of July 2026.

Why do people in Indonesia use VPNs?

To reach sites on the Trust Positif blocklist, which included Reddit until July 2026 (unblocked after 11 years) and briefly Telegram in June 2026. Any working VPN does the job; see the table for current statuses.