ESTA, two nationalities, two names, should I declare the second in the form?

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The questions about other names and other citizenships were only added a little over a year ago. Any advice against disclosing additional names and citizenships was likely based on the older application form that did not ask about them. This is certainly true of the third link, which is four years old.

(See, for example, this Telegraph article from November 2014.)

Now that they are included in the application, it would indeed be seen as untruthful to fail to disclose them.

If you don't disclose your Indonesian nationality, you risk being banned from the US for lying on your ESTA application. If you do disclose it, you risk ESTA denial and the associated hassle and expense of applying for a B visa. The cost of the first outcome is probably far higher for you than the cost of the second outcome.

I also note that I wrote one answer you link to, namely https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/56631/19400. The question there was whether an Australian/French dual citizen must enter the US as French because she resides in France. The answer to that question is "no." Part of my reasoning was flawed because I wasn't aware then that the ESTA application asks for other citizenships. I've edited the answer accordingly.

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