The men's freestyle 57 kilograms (bantamweight) freestyle wrestling competition at the 1962 Asian Games in Jakarta was held from 28 to 30 August 1962.

[1] The competition used a form of negative points tournament, with negative points given for any result short of a fall.

Accumulation of 6 negative points eliminated the wrestler.

When three or fewer wrestlers remained, they advanced to a final round, with only preliminary results amongst them carried forward.

All times are Western Indonesian Time (UTC+07:30)