Regulation Watch · Business Licensing · Buleleng Regency, Bali. The regulation applies to risk-based business licences within the Regency's authority and the local permits and non-licensing services listed in its appendix.
Buleleng Moves Key Local Permits to DPMPTSP
Buleleng Regent Regulation 22/2026 delegates regional business licensing and listed local permits and non-licensing services to the Head of DPMPTSP, with applications handled online unless a technical disruption requires offline processing.
- Published
- Established and promulgated in Singaraja on 5 October 2026 as Buleleng Regency Gazette No. 22 of 2026.
- Effective
- 5 October 2026. The official Buleleng JDIH record lists the regulation as in force from its promulgation date and provides no general transition period.
- Added to Watch
- 7 October 2026
Who is affected
PT PMA and PT PMDN companies, foreign and domestic directors, local businesses, developers, landlords and property operators, clinics and healthcare professionals, spas and traditional-health providers, schools and training providers, employers extending an RPTKA, foreign veterinarians, advertising operators, transport businesses and advisers filing permits in Buleleng Regency.
Practical impact
The Head of Buleleng DPMPTSP is now the delegated authority for regional risk-based business licensing and a defined list of local permits and non-licensing services. The appendix covers billboard installation; education-establishment and operating permits; healthcare-practice and facility permits; traditional-health registration for spas; use of road-owned space; housing or ready-to-build plot site-plan approval; social-welfare and public-collection permits; validation of the local foreign-worker compensation fund for RPTKA extensions; specified passenger-transport permits; veterinary-practice permits including for foreign veterinarians; animal-market permits; and research letters. Services are to be processed online through the government or regional system, with offline handling allowed only for technical disruption.
Buleleng established and promulgated Regent Regulation 22/2026 on 5 October 2026. It delegates the Regency's risk-based business-licensing authority and the listed local permits and non-licensing services from the Regent to the Head of DPMPTSP. The official JDIH record lists the regulation as currently in force.
The delegation does not reduce substantive licensing requirements. Risk-based licences remain governed by national norms, standards, procedures and criteria, while technical teams representing the relevant regional departments may provide recommendations for local permits and non-licensing services.
The appendix is operationally important for investors and advisers because it identifies the Buleleng DPMPTSP route for billboard permits; education licences; healthcare practice and facility permits; traditional-health registration for spas; road-owned-space and housing-site-plan approvals; local validation of foreign-worker compensation for RPTKA extensions; specified transport and veterinary permits; and other listed services.
Applications are to be processed online using the national or regional government system. Offline processing is permitted when a technical disruption occurs. Businesses should therefore preserve the electronic filing record and any official instruction authorising an offline alternative.
The regulation changes the competent regional service route, not the wider approval chain. A business should still reconcile its NIB and OSS data with sectoral, spatial, environmental, PBG, professional, manpower and local requirements before starting the activity.
Required action
- Identify every Buleleng permit or non-licensing approval required by the project and map it to the appendix of Regent Regulation 22/2026 before filing, renewing or changing the activity.
- Route covered local applications and follow-up correspondence through Buleleng DPMPTSP and the applicable online system; retain evidence if the authority directs an offline filing because of a technical outage.
- Keep OSS risk-based licensing aligned with the regional file. Delegation to DPMPTSP does not replace the NIB, sectoral standards, technical recommendations, spatial, environmental, building or professional requirements that apply to the activity.
- For a clinic, spa or traditional-health business, verify both the establishment's business licence and every professional practice permit or STPT required for the services actually offered.
- For an RPTKA extension, coordinate the local DKPTKA validation with the national manpower process and keep payment, validation and expatriate records consistent.
- For land development, confirm whether site-plan approval, RUMIJA approval, billboard permission or another listed local approval is required before design approval, construction, installation or marketing.