Practical guides for choosing KBLI, opening a restaurant, setting up a PT PMA, and estimating labour cost in Indonesia.
These guides turn reference data into operational steps that can be cross-checked against official sources.
Guide index
- Guide to BPJS for Indonesian payroll - A BPJS summary for founders, finance teams, and payroll operators.
- Guide to choosing the right KBLI 2025 safely - Checklist for choosing the right KBLI 2025 code, assessing OSS risk, and avoiding mismatches at filing time.
- Guide to exporting products from Indonesia - Start from the KBKI commodity, move down to HS/BTKI, then check production regions, KBLI actors, and customs layers.
- Guide to Indonesian import duty and HS codes - A guide to understanding HS, BTKI, Lartas, and import landed cost.
- Guide to hiring foreign workers - Use the KBJI occupation layer, check the linked KBLI sectors, then prepare work-location and payroll baselines.
- KBLI 2020 versus KBLI 2025 - A summary of the shift from KBLI 2020 to KBLI 2025 and what businesses should recheck.
- Guide to opening a restaurant in Indonesia - Guide to opening a restaurant in Indonesia with a KBLI, OSS, licensing, tax, BPJS, and wage checklist.
- Guide to estimating baseline labour cost - Guide to estimating baseline labour cost in Indonesia using wages, BPJS, and starting payroll components.
- Guide to PT PMA for foreign investors - PT PMA summary for foreign investors, including KBLI checks, the OSS path, and foreign-ownership notes.
- Guide to regional analysis for business expansion - Start from region codes, move to UMP/UMK, then read dominant KBLI activities and administrative structure by area.
- Guide to NIB registration in OSS - A practical checklist for NIB registration in OSS and business-code validation.
- Guide to starting a business in Indonesia - A practical path from choosing KBLI and checking OSS risk to syncing KLU, labour cost baseline, and location screening.
- Guide to reading 2025 and 2026 minimum wages - How to read provincial minimum wages and their effect on labour cost.
Changelog
- 2026-03-19 - The guide was published with an operational checklist, primary sources, and editorial structure.
- 2026-03-19 - Examples, FAQs, and links to KBLI, OSS, and tax layers were expanded.
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