Regulation Watch · Business Licensing · Indonesia, including Bali
Foreign-Worker Licensing Moves to a Single OSS Entry
Kemnaker has announced a single-entry foreign-worker licensing workflow through OSS that connects OSS, SIAPKerja, and All Indonesia across the investment, manpower, and immigration authorities.
- Published
- Officially announced 9 September 2026 after the joint decision was signed on 9 September 2026; no instrument number or separate promulgation date was disclosed
- Effective
- Operational integration announced 9 September 2026; the official announcement does not state a separate activation date
- Updated
- 11 September 2026
Who is affected
PT PMA companies and other Indonesian employers using foreign workers, foreign directors and expatriate employees who require employment-related immigration permission, company representatives, and advisers handling RPTKA, manpower, OSS, visa, and stay-permit processes.
Practical impact
Foreign-worker licensing is now presented as a single-entry process initiated through OSS under the Ministry of Investment and Downstreaming/BKPM. The integration connects the Ministry of Manpower's SIAPKerja system and the Ministry of Immigration and Corrections' All Indonesia system. It is intended to remove repeated entry across agencies and align foreign-worker and immigration data, but the official announcement does not say that substantive RPTKA, visa, stay-permit, position, location, compensation-fund, or reporting requirements have been removed.
Kemnaker published the official announcement on 9 September 2026, the same day the manpower, investment, and immigration authorities signed a joint decision on system integration. The announcement does not disclose the decision number, a separate promulgation date, or a later activation date. It states that foreign-worker licensing can be accessed through a single OSS entry integrating SIAPKerja and All Indonesia.
The operational benefit is one coordinated starting point for the employer. OSS sits under the Ministry of Investment and Downstreaming/BKPM, SIAPKerja carries the manpower-side data and process, and All Indonesia connects the immigration-side service. The government's stated aim is a simpler, faster, and more certain process supported by aligned data across the three authorities.
This is a workflow integration, not a deregulation measure. The announcement does not remove the need to satisfy the legal requirements governing the foreign worker, approved position and work location, employer sponsorship, manpower plan, compensation-fund payment, visa, stay permit, and mandatory reporting. Existing approvals and expiry dates should therefore be controlled independently of the system handoff.
During rollout, employers should prioritise data consistency. A mismatch between the company's OSS profile, SIAPKerja record, passport details, job title, location, employment period, or immigration sponsorship can now affect a connected process rather than a single portal. Retaining submission evidence and system screenshots will be important if a handoff fails or an authority requests clarification.
Required action
- For every new or renewed foreign-worker case, begin with the current OSS workflow and confirm whether the integrated route is active for the specific service before using an older standalone process.
- Reconcile the employer's NIB, legal name, address, KBLI, work locations, responsible officers, and contact details across OSS and SIAPKerja before submission.
- Use identical passport, job-title, work-location, employment-period, and sponsor data across the RPTKA-related filing and the connected visa or stay-permit process in All Indonesia.
- Keep the OSS submission receipt, SIAPKerja output, immigration confirmation, payment evidence, and screenshots of any system handoff or error, particularly while the integrated workflow is being implemented.
- Do not allow the foreign national to work until the required manpower and immigration approvals for the actual activity, position, location, and employer are complete.