The English-language reference for Indonesia's business classification system.

What we cover.

The full Indonesian KBLI taxonomy at every hierarchy level — from 22 alphabetical sections down to 1,773 5-digit classes. Each class page surfaces:

• Foreign-investment status derived from Pres. Reg. 10/2021 (BUPM Investment Business Fields) — open, conditional with cap, domestic-only, SME-reserved, partnership-required, or scale-restricted. We apply a partial-vs-full-class heuristic so sub-activity restrictions don't get over-applied.
• OSS RBA risk levels per business scale (Micro / Small / Medium / Large) and the specific licensing instruments required at each (NIB / Sertifikat Standar / Izin), including processing time and issuing authority.
• Sector-regulator overlays when the activity is gated by OJK (financial services), BPOM (FDA), Kemenkes (health), ESDM (energy & mining), Kominfo (telecoms), or LPJK (construction) — we surface the regulator and what approval is needed on top of the standard NIB.
• Halal certification scope under UU 33/2014 + PP 39/2021 — phase-1 (food/slaughter) mandatory since Oct 2024, phase-2 (cosmetics, medical devices) by Oct 2026, phase-3 (pharma) by Oct 2029.

Methodology.

Data is refreshed against OSS Indonesia and translated into clean English via a hand-tuned pipeline (gpt-4o-mini with a domain- specific system prompt; SHA-256-keyed translation cache to keep the same Indonesian source string from getting re-translated). Each page's "Last updated" timestamp reflects the most recent successful scrape for that specific code.

Editorial decisions — partial-vs-full BUPM restriction handling, "scale-restricted" detection (no Large-scale licensing matrix), sector-regulator labelling — are codified in the source. The partial-restriction heuristic, for instance, looks at whether a BUPM activity description matches the whole class name or names a narrower sub-activity, to avoid telling a foreign investor that "all cosmetics manufacturing is closed" when only "traditional cosmetics" is restricted.

We deliberately don't assert capital figures we can't verify. Sector-regulated KBLIs (OJK / BPOM / Kemenkes / ESDM / etc.) are flagged but the specific rupiah amount is left to the regulator of record — this is one of the things we routinely confirm with BKPM directly before a foreign investor commits.