Regulation Watch · Business Licensing · Indonesia. The regulation applies nationally to risk-based business licensing in the marine and fisheries sector, including marine-space use, capture fisheries, aquaculture, fish-feed and fish-medicine activities, seafood processing, cold-chain and distribution operations, wholesale and retail fisheries trade, marine tourism in conservation areas, salt production and other listed activities. It applies to qualifying PT PMA and PT PMDN operators, but it does not itself open a restricted KBLI to foreign investment. Each foreign-owned business must separately confirm that its KBLI, scale and activity are permitted under the investment rules.
KKP Replaces Marine and Fisheries Licensing Standards
Permen KKP 15/2026 immediately replaces the 2021 risk-based licensing standards for marine-space, fishing, aquaculture, seafood-processing and fisheries-marketing businesses, with new OSS matrices, quality certificates, transition rules and sanctions.
- Published
- Established in Jakarta on 12 October 2026 and promulgated on 15 October 2026 in State Bulletin 2026 No. 699. The official KKP JDIH record identifies the instrument as in force and provides the signed text with its detailed business and product or service standards.
- Effective
- 15 October 2026, the date of promulgation specified by Article 218. Article 215 delays the fishing-vessel inspection provisions in Articles 67 through 71 until 1 January 2029, while the transition provisions preserve certain existing permits and applications for their stated periods.
- Added to Watch
- 16 October 2026
Who is affected
Foreign and domestic investors, PT PMA and PT PMDN companies, directors and controlling shareholders, fishing and fish-transport operators, aquaculture and hatchery businesses, fish-feed and fish-medicine manufacturers and distributors, seafood processors, cold-storage and logistics operators, wholesalers, retailers, exporters, importers, marine-tourism and conservation-area operators, salt and marine-water businesses, port operators, vessel owners, compliance teams and provincial or regency licensing authorities.
Practical impact
The regulation replaces Permen KKP 10/2021 and consolidates the operative standards for business licences, supporting business licences and quality certificates through OSS. Its annexes map detailed requirements to marine and fisheries KBLIs and to certificates including CPIB, good aquaculture and hatchery certificates, CPPIB, CPOIB, CDOIB, SKP, HACCP and SPDI. Existing businesses do not receive a general grandfathering exemption. Specified permits remain valid until expiry, specified applications continue under the former rule only until the relevant systems are adjusted, and active operators must align licences, quality certificates, operational conditions and reporting with the new matrix. The regulation also consolidates risk-based supervision and an administrative-sanction ladder that can reach closure, fines, licence suspension and revocation.
The Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries established Permen KKP 15/2026 on 12 October and promulgated it in State Bulletin 2026 No. 699 on 15 October. Article 218 made the regulation effective immediately. It replaces Permen KKP 10/2021 and revokes or supersedes provisions spread across other rules on fish quality, processing, distribution, capture fisheries, vessels, fish medicine, seed systems and administrative sanctions.
The scope reaches the full marine and fisheries chain. It covers marine-space use, protected and CITES-listed aquatic species, sea sand, salt, marine water, conservation-area and marine-tourism activities, capture fisheries, ports and vessels, aquaculture and hatcheries, fish feed and medicine, seafood processing, cold storage, distribution, wholesale, retail and related supporting services. The annexes assign activity, licensing, operational, product and quality standards to the relevant KBLIs and PB UMKU.
For investors, the first step is a licence-by-licence reconciliation rather than a generic NIB review. Each facility, vessel, product and distribution activity should be matched to its KBLI, scale, risk level, competent authority, business licence, supporting licence and required certificate. A foreign-owned company must also confirm that the selected KBLI and scale are open to PT PMA participation because this KKP regulation sets sector standards but does not override investment restrictions.
Quality approvals are central to the new framework. Aquaculture, feed and medicine operations may require the applicable good-practice and product-registration certificates. Fish processing and marketing activities may require SKP, HACCP, SPDI or CPIB depending on the unit and activity. Existing SKP holders receive only a temporary SPDI exemption until the SKP expires, while existing PB UMKU quality certificates remain valid only through their current term.
The transition rules are specific. Existing fishing permits and vessel documents identified by the regulation remain valid for their stated term, while certain pending applications continue under Permen KKP 10/2021 only until the adjusted government system operates. Fishing-vessel identification must be aligned by 31 December 2027. The new vessel-inspection provisions start on 1 January 2029, and an individual operator with at least 300 GT of cumulative vessel allocation must move the relevant licensing to a legal-entity corporation by 31 December 2029.
Supervision is risk-based and can test both documents and actual operations. Authorities may inspect OSS records, licence conditions, facilities, products, vessels, quality controls, reports and corrective actions. The sanction ladder includes warnings, government coercive measures, fines, suspension and revocation. Serious health, safety, environmental or fisheries-resource impacts can justify direct action, so a paper licence that does not match the operating site or product chain is not a sufficient compliance position.
Required action
- Map every marine and fisheries activity, facility, vessel and product against its current KBLI, business scale, risk level, authority and the applicable standards in the Permen KKP 15/2026 annexes.
- For each PT PMA entity, separately verify foreign-investment eligibility and ownership conditions for the selected KBLI and scale. Do not treat the sector licence standard as permission for foreign ownership.
- Reconcile the NIB, business licence and every PB UMKU in OSS with the actual activity, location, production capacity, vessel, facility, product, distribution channel and competent central or regional authority.
- Seafood processors and marketers should verify the required quality approvals for each unit and activity, including SKP, HACCP, SPDI and CPIB where applicable, and update facility, hygiene, traceability, storage and transport evidence.
- Aquaculture, hatchery, fish-feed and fish-medicine businesses should confirm the applicable good-practice certificate, product registration, five-year validity period where specified and the six-month advance renewal deadline for feed or medicine registration certificates.
- Marine-space, conservation-area and marine-tourism operators should review the new PB and PB UMKU term, activity and reporting conditions, including the 10-year marine-tourism permit term and the activity tests that can cause a licence to end.
- Create a transition register for every existing permit, quality certificate and pending application. Record whether it remains valid until expiry, follows the former procedure temporarily or requires immediate alignment with the new rule.
- Fishing operators should assess the 300-GT legal-entity threshold, the 20,000-GT corporate allocation ceiling, vessel-range changes, vessel identification and the deferred vessel-inspection rules against their fleet and expansion plan.
- Prepare inspection-ready evidence for licence conditions, operational activity, periodic reports, quality controls, corrective actions and OSS records, and assign owners for responding within any 10-to-30-working-day warning period.