Regulation Watch · Business Licensing · Indonesia, including Bali
Indonesia Sets 18 National Holidays and 8 Collective-Leave Days for 2027
The 15 September 2026 joint ministerial decision fixes Indonesia's 2027 national-holiday calendar and eight collective-leave days, requiring private employers to decide their collective-leave policy and prepare lawful staffing and payroll arrangements.
- Published
- Established and officially published on 15 September 2026. The Ministry of Manpower JDIH records no separate promulgation date.
- Effective
- 15 September 2026; the listed national holidays and collective-leave dates apply during calendar year 2027.
- Added to Watch
- 15 September 2026
Who is affected
All private employers, including PT PMA companies, foreign directors and management, hotels, villas, restaurants, clinics, developers, contractors, retail and service businesses, HR and payroll teams, and businesses that continue operating on national holidays.
Practical impact
The decision sets 18 national-holiday dates and eight collective-leave days for 2027. Private-sector collective leave is implemented under each company's leadership rather than operating as an automatic instruction for every private business to close. Where a company implements collective leave, it reduces annual-leave entitlement in accordance with applicable law and the company's rules. Businesses providing continuous or direct public services must arrange holiday staffing under the employment rules, including the separate requirements governing work and overtime on official holidays.
The Ministers of Religious Affairs, Manpower, and Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform jointly established Decisions 1205/2026, 3/2026, and 2/2026 on 15 September 2026. The decision took effect when established and provides the official calendar framework for government institutions and private employers in 2027.
The calendar contains 18 national-holiday dates: 1 and 5 January; 6 February; 8, 10, 11, 26, and 28 March; 1, 6, 17, and 20 May; 1 and 6 June; 15 and 17 August; and 25 and 26 December. Several fall on weekends. The decision does not itself create substitute weekdays for those weekend holidays.
The eight collective-leave days are 5 February; 9, 12, and 15 March; 25 March; 18 and 19 May; and 24 December. For private institutions, the company leadership decides implementation. If the company applies collective leave, the decision states that it reduces annual leave in accordance with the law and the rules applying in that company. Employers should therefore document the policy rather than treating every collective-leave date as an automatic private-sector closure or an automatic payroll category.
Businesses that must continue serving the public are directed to arrange employee assignments on national holidays and collective-leave days under the applicable legislation. For PT PMAs and Bali operators, this makes the annual calendar a payroll and workforce-compliance issue: official-holiday shifts should be distinguished from ordinary working days and company-selected collective leave, with holiday overtime assessed under the existing employment rules.
The calendar creates several operational clusters, particularly around Chinese New Year, Idulfitri, Good Friday, Iduladha and Waisak, and Christmas. Bali employers should also prepare for Nyepi on Monday, 8 March 2027. The Minister of Religious Affairs will separately determine 1 Ramadan, Idulfitri, and Iduladha, so HR teams should keep those religious dates under review even after issuing the initial company calendar.
Required action
- Load all 18 national-holiday dates and eight collective-leave days into the 2027 payroll, attendance, booking, project, and operating calendars, including Bali's Nyepi holiday on Monday, 8 March 2027.
- Issue a written private-sector decision stating which collective-leave dates the company will implement, whether operations will close or continue, and how any implemented days will be charged against annual leave under the company's employment documents.
- Review employment contracts, company regulations, collective agreements, and leave balances before deducting collective leave; communicate the rule and calendar consistently to Indonesian and expatriate employees.
- For operations continuing on a national holiday, prepare written rosters, verify employee consent and lawful working-time arrangements where required, calculate holiday overtime under the applicable employment rules, and retain attendance and payroll evidence.
- Reforecast staffing and cash requirements for the extended clusters around Chinese New Year, Idulfitri, Good Friday, Iduladha, Waisak, and Christmas, and align customer, supplier, banking, tax, and government-service timelines.
- Monitor the later Minister of Religious Affairs decisions confirming 1 Ramadan, Idulfitri, and Iduladha dates, and update the operating calendar if an official religious-date determination requires it.