Regulation Watch · Business Licensing · Indonesia, including Bali
Labour Inspections Now Have Digital Checks and Fixed Response Limits
Permenaker 11/2026 allows SIAPkerja verification and online clarification, sets correction-note response limits, and authorises escalation to investigation, administrative-sanction recommendations, or operational action.
- Published
- Promulgated 3 July 2026 after issuance on 29 June 2026
- Effective
- 3 July 2026
- Updated
- 9 September 2026
Who is affected
All employers and workplaces, including PT PMA companies, foreign directors and management, businesses employing expatriates, developers, contractors, hotels, villas, restaurants, clinics, factories, labour-placement businesses, HR teams, and occupational safety and health personnel.
Practical impact
Labour inspections may be initial, periodic, special, or repeat and may run for up to 60 working days. Inspectors can use monitoring or surveillance, observation, document examination, online or offline clarification, and verification of company self-inspection through SIAPkerja. A special inspection may follow a complaint, report, media coverage, or an inspection-leadership order. When violations are found, the company must correct them and report evidence within the deadline stated in the inspection note.
Late discovery: Permenaker 11/2026 was issued on 29 June, promulgated on 3 July, and became effective on promulgation. It replaces Permenaker 33/2016 and its 2020 amendment. It remains actionable because the procedures now govern every new labour inspection and impose short, evidence-backed response periods once an inspector identifies a violation.
The regulation formalises a broader inspection toolkit. Inspectors may monitor or conduct surveillance, observe work, examine documents, seek clarification online or offline, and verify the company's self-inspection in SIAPkerja. Special inspections need not wait for a routine cycle: they may be triggered by a public complaint or report, media coverage, or an order from inspection leadership.
If an inspection finds a violation, Note I must identify the legal basis, required correction, possible sanction, and a reasonable completion period of no more than 30 working days from receipt. The company must both carry out the correction and report it with supporting evidence. If Note I is not satisfied, Note II must be issued within three working days and gives no more than 14 working days from receipt before the matter can escalate to investigation, an administrative-sanction recommendation, or other lawful action.
The operational exposure is especially serious for expatriate employment and K3. Inspectors may remove a foreign worker from a work location that does not comply with the law and prohibit the employer from employing that person there. A K3 object or process that fails the applicable safety requirements can be prohibited or stopped and may resume only after the company complies and obtains the required certificate. There is no one-time filing date, so businesses should treat document accuracy and inspection-response readiness as continuing obligations.
Required action
- Run an inspection-readiness review covering WLKP and SIAPkerja data, employment contracts, company regulations or collective agreements, payroll, minimum wage, overtime, BPJS, outsourcing, expatriate employment and RPTKA compliance, and occupational safety and health requirements.
- Reconcile corporate, workforce, and workplace data held in SIAPkerja and other labour-administration records, then keep the underlying documents ready for electronic or in-person examination.
- Appoint an inspection-response team that can receive notices, coordinate corrective work, preserve evidence, and report completion to the inspector before the stated deadline.
- Calendar an Inspection Note I immediately on receipt: its correction period may be shorter but cannot exceed 30 working days. If Note II is issued, its correction period cannot exceed 14 working days from receipt.
- Do not use or operate a K3 object or process that has been prohibited or stopped after failing the applicable safety requirements until compliance is evidenced by the required K3 certificate.