Category: Investment Sectors
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Standard Certificates Beyond the NIB: Has Your Indonesian Company Met Every Licensing Obligation?
A standard certificate issued in OSS records a company’s own statement that it will meet the business standard for its activity. Meeting that standard often requires certificates, certified staff and reports from bodies outside OSS, for domestic companies and PT PMAs alike. READ MORE →
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Ethical Investment in Bali: Opportunities, Standards and How to Start
Ethical investment in Bali directs capital into businesses whose returns come with real environmental and social results, and whose records support the claim. This is what the term means here, the sectors and rules that shape it, the obstacles, and the steps to begin. READ MORE →
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Halal Certification in Indonesia After October 2026
The halal timetable changed twice in October 2026. Government Regulation Number 40 of 2026 moved many categories to October 2028, while others stay on 2029 and 2034 dates and medium and large food businesses remain mandatory. Confirm your product’s category before you act. READ MORE →
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What Is a Family Office, and Can a Foreign Family Run One from Bali?
A plain guide to the family office for a foreign family: what it is, single versus multi versus embedded, what it costs and when a family needs one, the governance and succession core, and what Indonesian law requires in Bali, from the PT PMA and the Bali Province rules to immigration, land, and the PFII. READ MORE →
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Where to Base a Cross-Border Business in 2026: the PFII, an Onshore PT PMA, or a Regional Hub
Indonesia’s new PFII, an onshore PT PMA, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai through the DIFC, and Labuan, compared on tax, the owner’s residence, substance, treaty access, succession, the courts, and cost, with a match-by-situation guide and an eight-question FAQ. READ MORE →
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Indonesia’s International Financial Centre (PFII): What the New Law Means for Bali’s Investors
Indonesia passed the law establishing the Pusat Finansial Internasional Indonesia on 21 July 2026, with Bali named as the location. This article sets out what the centre offers on tax and the Golden Visa, how it is governed through a common-law court, the pending implementing regulations, and the criticisms a foreign founder or investor should… READ MORE →
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Opening an Offshore Company from Indonesia: When It Works, and What You Must Declare
An offshore company from Indonesia is lawful, and the Indonesian tax and reporting rules attach to the owner, whatever their nationality. This sets out when one works, what you must declare, the cost against the alternatives, and the routes that reach the same end without a second company. READ MORE →
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Selling Online in Indonesia: Where the Buyers Are, and Which Platform Will Work for You
Indonesia is the largest e-commerce market in Southeast Asia and grew 2.2 percent in 2025. Three platforms take 98.8 percent of regional GMV. Where the buyers are, what each channel costs, and the licence and tax rules that follow. READ MORE →
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The Sexiest Cow in Bali: Turning Business Waste Into a Product
A cow bought to keep a riverside block clear became the centre of a daily waste exchange that cut costs for a whole neighbourhood. The same logic runs through six Indonesian businesses that turn discarded material into a product people will pay for. READ MORE →
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Women Founders in Indonesia: When a Business Has to Close
Julie Wainwright closed Pets.com with around 147 million US dollars gone, and Sophia Amoruso watched Nasty Gal go bankrupt, and both built again. Our founder Tracy Wilkinson lost two thriving companies in a single night and spent years recovering. This final instalment on founders who change direction covers the failure that removes the choice: how… READ MORE →
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Halal Certification Before 17 October 2026: How an Indonesian Manufacturer Obtains a Certificate in Time
Halal certification becomes mandatory for Indonesian cosmetics, consumer goods, medicine and many food producers by 17 October 2026. This guide helps a producer find the date that governs its own product and work backwards through the certification sequence to reach a certificate before the shelf is at risk. READ MORE →
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Raising Growth Capital in Indonesia: The Decision That Converts a PT PMDN to a PT PMA
A growing enterprise reaches a point where its own cash cannot fund the next stage. The source of the capital it raises decides the company’s legal identity, because any foreign shareholding converts a PT PMDN to a PT PMA. This article sets out raising growth capital in Indonesia, the regime conversion brings, the sector and… READ MORE →
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Brands Built to Multiply: How an Indonesian Enterprise Scales Without Parting With Capital or Control
An enterprise that builds each outlet on its own capital grows only as fast as its capital allows. A model designed to multiply lets other operators fund the growth while the owner keeps the brand and the control. This article sets out scaling a business in Indonesia through licensing, and the graduation to franchising when… READ MORE →
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Supply Chain Control in Indonesia: How a Domestic Operator Secures Its Place in a Foreign Joint Venture
TraceWorthy designed a beverage network as a joint venture, with domestic capital owning farming and manufacturing and foreign capital owning distribution, and the intellectual property split so that neither side can run the business without the other. This article shows how supply chain control in Indonesia secures the domestic partner’s place. READ MORE →
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Most Operators Compete by Doing the Same Thing as Their Rivals: Slightly Better or Slightly Cheaper
A foreign-owned investor came to Bali with a recycling model that could not fit the island’s roads, and left rather than adapt it. The demand stayed where it was. This article shows how a domestic enterprise finds the market gap a foreign operator leaves, and takes the position at the scale it chooses to serve. READ MORE →