Category: Investment Sectors
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Foreign Ownership and Padel in Indonesia: the KBLI Codes a Foreign Company can Register
Padel is the fastest-growing sport in Indonesia. On OSS readings of November 2026, a foreign-owned company can register three roles: the padel facility under KBLI 93119 outside Bali, and anywhere in Indonesia the brand and intellectual property licence under KBLI 77400 and the coaching academy under KBLI 85510. In Bali, the provincial closure keeps a… READ MORE →
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Consultant Tax in Indonesia: PPh Articles 21 and 23 and the Consultant-Employee Line
New foreign-owned PT PMAs frequently make a recurring error: paying the full consultant invoice without applying the withholding. This article works through the PPh Article 23 framework, the seven-factor consultant-employee substance test, the 2 or 4 per cent rate structure, and the NPWP rule. READ MORE →
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Women Founders in Indonesia: The Art of Reinvention
Alamanda Shantika left Gojek to teach Indonesians to build technology, and Diana Rikasari has reinvented herself from market researcher to footwear founder to maker of upcycled clothing. This first of two instalments on founders who change direction covers the pivot a founder chooses: what a pivot is, when to rebrand and when to start a… READ MORE →
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Clean by Design: Water Treatment, Refill, and Wastewater Enterprises in Indonesia
Bali’s aquifers have lost over 50 metres of groundwater depth in some areas in less than ten years. Wastewater infrastructure on the island processes less than ten per cent of the waste it generates. The average tourist uses between 2,000 and 4,000 litres of water per day. Water treatment investment in Indonesia addresses those pressures… READ MORE →
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Built to Scale: Sports and Recreation Investment in Indonesia
Indonesia’s sports economy is projected to reach IDR 43 to 45 trillion in 2026, growing at 5 to 7 per cent annually from the confirmed 2024 baseline of IDR 39.5 trillion. Padel recorded a 1,684 per cent increase in tracked activities in Indonesia in 2025, with over 1,580 new courts built during the same period.… READ MORE →
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Teaching Without Permission: Lawful Entry into Indonesia’s Education and Skill-Transfer Sector
Indonesia’s total education market is valued at USD 50 billion, with the EdTech segment growing at a compound annual growth rate of 11.79 per cent. The demand environment for language training, corporate professional development, children’s enrichment, executive education, and vocational training in Indonesia is commercially confirmed. The compliance structure required to operate lawfully within it… READ MORE →
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From Ingredient to Invoice: Food and Beverage Production as a Foreign Investment in Indonesia
Indonesia’s food market is valued at USD 255.38 billion in 2025, and the F&B sector contributed IDR 1,531.4 trillion to national GDP in 2024. Foreign investment in food manufacturing reached USD 3.46 billion by year-end. The sector rewards investment. It also requires a precisely sequenced compliance chain that runs from KBLI classification through BPOM registration,… READ MORE →
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Beyond Tourism: The Blue Economy in Indonesia – Marine and Fisheries Investment
Indonesia is the world’s second largest aquaculture producer, with 17,504 islands and 6.4 million square kilometres of sea area. The KKP has set a marine and fisheries sector investment target of IDR 14.47 trillion for 2026, as part of a five-year programme targeting IDR 79.21 trillion by 2029. Government Regulation 78 of 2019 provides a… READ MORE →
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Beyond Beach Clubs: Creative Production, Events, and Destination Experiences as Foreign Investment in Indonesia
Indonesia’s creative economy became a named licensing sector under Government Regulation 28 of 2025, for the first time placing event production, destination experiences, film and music production, performing arts, and creative education within a defined regulatory framework with its own licensing treatment and supervisory authority. For a foreign investor, this means the KBLI 2025 classification… READ MORE →
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Beyond Bali: Infrastructure and Built-Environment Services as Foreign Investment in Indonesia
Indonesia’s Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Menengah Nasional 2025 to 2029 requires IDR 47,587.3 trillion in infrastructure investment. The Ministry of Public Works budget was cut 73 per cent in 2025. The gap between what the state needs and what it can fund is the commercial context in which built-environment services in Indonesia operate. This article examines… READ MORE →
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Beyond Villas: Trade and Distribution in Bali
Trade and distribution in Bali offers foreign investors a structured route beyond property. KBLI 2025, enterprise models, compliance, and legal structuring guidance. READ MORE →
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Beyond Tourism: Bali Needs Waste Solutions
Indonesia and Bali are inviting more waste-sector investment, though the foreign-backed models making a real difference are usually the ones built around collection, sorting, organics processing, traceable recovery, and contractable service systems. The weaker approach is to import end-of-pipe hardware before the front end of the chain is ready. READ MORE →
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Bali 2036: Growth Alone Will Not Protect Your Business
Bali is still growing, though growth alone does not make a business durable. This article examines what founders need to test before capital is committed, including structure, feasibility, governance, uneven trading conditions, and whether the venture still makes sense under closer review. READ MORE →
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Women Founders in Indonesia: Making a Woman-Led Business Bankable
Tessa Wijaya taught herself to value companies, then co-founded Xendit and built it into a Southeast Asian unicorn. This final instalment sets out what a bank or an investor checks before it funds a business in Indonesia, from clean ownership and a paid-up cap table to debts, disputes, employment and governance, and how a woman-led… READ MORE →
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Women Founders in Indonesia: Structuring for Impact
Robin Lim delivers babies free in Bali, Hanna Keraf turned village weaving into a wage, Helianti Hilman built a market for forgotten foods, and Ewa Wojkowska took technology the last mile. Indonesia has no legal form made for a social enterprise, so this instalment sets out the vehicle decision every mission-driven founder faces: the foundation,… READ MORE →