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Indonesia, including PT PMA and PT PMDN taxpayers, taxable entrepreneurs and withholding agents operating in Bali or elsewhere in Indonesia.
Coretax Amendments Now Replace the Previous Tax Return
PER-12/PJ/2026 replaces Coretax's delta correction method with a full-return replacement calculation from 1 October 2026, changing how PPh, VAT and annual-return amendments account for payments, refunds and compensation balances.
Indonesia, including QRIS merchants and payment settlements operated by PT PMA and PT PMDN businesses in Bali and elsewhere in Indonesia.
QRIS Transactions up to Rp100,000 Now Carry 0% MDR
Bank Indonesia has extended 0% QRIS Merchant Discount Rate treatment to transactions up to Rp100,000 across all merchant categories from 1 October 2026.
Indonesia, for parties subject to OJK incidental-reporting duties in the capital-market, financial-derivatives and carbon-exchange sectors, including foreign-owned or foreign-invested regulated entities.
OJK Incidental Reporting Moves to an Integrated System
From 1 October 2026, regulated capital-market, financial-derivatives and carbon-exchange entities must route prescribed event reports through OJK's integrated reporting system under POJK 9/2026 and PADK 8/2026.
Indonesia, including Indonesian branches and entities with the prescribed CRS or CARF nexus, whether domestically or foreign owned.
CRS Corrections Now Use the Amended Reporting Framework
From 1 October 2026, CRS reports for 2025 and earlier data years and any corrections filed from that date must follow PMK 108/2025 and the Amended CRS format, while 2026 data brings Indonesia's first CARF reporting cycle for qualifying crypto-asset service providers.
Indonesia, including digital advertising, social-media, website and electronic-commerce activity directed to users in Bali and elsewhere in Indonesia.
Indonesia Activates Digital Tobacco-Advertising Takedown Controls
Kepmenkes 963/2026 operationalizes the social-media ban on tobacco and e-cigarette advertising, prescribes age and content controls for commercial sites and apps, and creates a verified route to content takedown and account removal.
Indonesia Moves Foreign Digital VAT to the Payment Layer
DJP has implemented PMK 49/2026 through SPP-TDLN from 25 September 2026, allowing designated payment intermediaries to collect embedded VAT on foreign digital goods and services that are not already taxed by an appointed PMSE collector.
Indonesia, including PT PMA and PT PMDN importers, import-licence holders, surveyors and businesses bringing regulated goods into Bali or other Indonesian customs areas, free-trade zones, special economic zones or bonded zones.
Import Licensing Gains Automatic Issuance and Tighter SINSW Enforcement
Permendag 18/2026 gives complete import-licence applications time-limited review and automatic electronic issuance, while tightening SINSW shipment matching, realization reporting and automated sanctions.
Denpasar City, Bali, for local taxpayers conducting taxable business activities or using groundwater within the city.
Denpasar Moves PBJT and Groundwater Tax to a 10-Working-Day Deadline
Denpasar now requires PBJT and monthly groundwater-tax reporting and payment within 10 working days after each tax period, with next-working-day relief when the deadline falls on a holiday.
Indonesia, including applications handled by Ministry of Law regional offices, Indonesian overseas missions and the Indonesian Economic and Trade Office in Taipei.
Citizenship Services Move to One Electronic Framework
Minister of Law Regulation 15/2026 consolidates naturalization, dual-citizenship, loss, reacquisition and status-confirmation services into one electronic framework with physical-document deadlines, review controls and repeat PNBP for rejected refilings.
Indonesia, including foreign-investment and foreign-loan funding hedged through eligible Indonesian banks for PT PMA companies and projects in Bali.
Bank Indonesia Opens Incentivized Hedging for FDI and Foreign Loans
Bank Indonesia PADG 28/2026 lets eligible banks place back-to-back hedging with BI for customer foreign loans and foreign direct investment, with published premium incentives and underlying-document conditions.
Indonesia, including products and materials manufactured, imported, distributed, supplied or used by businesses operating in Bali.
BPJPH Exempts Listed Low-Risk Products and Materials From Halal Certification
BPJPH Head Decision 301/2026 creates a 201-page exemption list for specified low-risk plant, non-slaughter animal, algae, natural-water, chemical and polymer products and materials, effective 28 February 2027.
Indonesia, including imports destined for Bali and other Indonesian markets.
Covered Imports Now Need Pre-Shipment Halal Conformity Checks
BPJPH Regulation 4/2026 and Head Decision 328/2026 require covered imports loaded on or after 17 October 2026 to follow the PTSP procedure and obtain a shipment-specific LPPH before the customs import declaration.
Indonesia, for imports of covered Japan-origin goods and for Indonesian legal-entity industrial importers approved to use the IJEPA User Specific Duty Free Scheme.
Japan-Origin Imports Get New IJEPA Tariffs and 0% USDFS Procedure
PMK 60/2026 resets Indonesia-Japan preferential import tariffs, including staged reductions, a managed tariff-rate quota and 0% USDFS for specified raw materials, while PMK 61/2026 requires eligible Indonesian industrial importers to obtain verified approvals through SINSW and follow transaction-level customs controls.
Indonesia, including domestically produced and imported products and food, beverage, hospitality, retail, distribution and service businesses operating in Bali.
Non-Halal Products Must Use BPJPH's Red Warning Mark
BPJPH Regulation 3/2026 prescribes the exact non-halal warning marks, placement rules and supporting records for packaged, bulk and food-service products, with a 23 July 2027 transition deadline for products already in circulation.
Indonesia, including foreign-exchange purchases and outbound foreign-currency transfers conducted through Indonesian banks by PT PMA companies and other bank customers in Bali.
Lower FX Thresholds Now Require Earlier Supporting Documents
Bank Indonesia PADG 13/2026 and PADG 15/2026 require supporting documents for outbound foreign-currency transfers above USD25,000 and underlying documents for monthly spot FX purchases above USD10,000.
Indonesia, including domestic and foreign-owned PPMSE or marketplace operators serving Indonesian micro and small enterprises, and UMK sellers operating through those platforms.
Marketplaces Must Cut Service Fees for Verified Domestic-Only UMK Sellers
Permen UMKM 3/2026 requires non-UMKM e-commerce platforms to give verified micro and small sellers of domestic-only products at least a 50% service-fee reduction and introduces mandatory partnership terms, fee-change notice, BPJS participation and enforcement controls.
Indonesia, including products and food, beverage, hospitality, retail, distribution, import and service businesses operating in Bali.
Halal Breaches Can Trigger Product Withdrawal and Site Closure
BPJPH Regulation 2/2026 creates an enforceable sanctions process for halal-compliance breaches, including short correction windows, fines, certificate revocation, product withdrawal, public notices, and temporary closure of food-service premises.
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.
Foreign-Worker Licensing Moves to a Single OSS Entry
A three-ministry joint decision makes OSS the single entry for investment-related foreign-worker applications, connects SIAPKerja and All Indonesia, and requires system-issued approvals under a positive-fiction mechanism when the applicable service-level period is exceeded.
Bali Province, through provincial Samsat services in every Bali regency and city.
Bali Vehicle-Tax Relief Ends 11 November
Bali Governor Regulation 23/2026 waives PKB principal from the third tax year onward and waives PKB and PKB-surcharge interest and fines for qualifying payments completed by 11 November 2026.
AHU Fees Rise, but Annual-Report Filings Are Free Through December
PP 30/2026 raises and expands AHU corporate-service tariffs, while Permenkum 13/2026 temporarily reduces the government fee for filing approval of a capital-based company's annual report to Rp0 through 31 December 2026.
Klungkung Regency, Bali. The current 2024–2044 RTRW identifies approximately 2,435 hectares of sustainable food-agriculture area in Banjarangkan, Dawan and Klungkung districts.
Klungkung Protects 2,435 Hectares From Land Conversion
Klungkung Regional Regulation 5/2026 treats food-farming land identified in the current spatial plan as protected pending formal designation, prohibits private conversion, and exposes incompatible projects to permit cancellation, closure, demolition and land restoration.
Indonesia, including Bali, with sanctions imposed by the competent national, provincial, regency, city, IKN, special-economic-zone, or Batam free-trade-zone authority.
Environmental Breaches Can Now Freeze or Revoke Business Licences
Permen LH/BPLH 6/2026 connects environmental inspections and sanctions to OSS, allows complaint-triggered and unannounced inspections, and exposes businesses to corrective orders, fines of up to IDR 3 billion per violation, licence freezing, and licence revocation.
Indonesia, for mineral and strategic-commodity exchanges, their infrastructure and participants, including Indonesian companies and PT PMA users or investors operating in the regulated ecosystem.
OJK Takes Over Mineral and Strategic Commodity Exchanges
POJK 15/2026 and POJK 16/2026 move mineral and strategic-commodity exchange supervision from Bappebti to OJK on 1 January 2027, replace core infrastructure licences, and impose new capital, governance, trading, custody, reporting, and enforcement rules.
Indonesia, including domestic PMSE and foreign online sellers or platforms serving Indonesian consumers.
Indonesia Rewrites E-Commerce Licensing and Cross-Border Platform Rules
Permendag 19/2026 requires online sellers and platforms to align NIB, sector licences, product standards, marketplace onboarding, cross-border sales, local representation, fee transparency, and AI use under a new PMSE framework.
Nusantara Capital City (IKN), East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
IKN Recasts Land, Expatriate and Permit Incentives
OIKN Regulation 9/2026 replaces the 2024 IKN investment framework with revised land-allocation, long-term land-rights, expatriate-workforce, permit-fee and pioneer-investor facilities, backed by construction milestones and revocation controls.
Indonesia, including small-island tourism, property, marine, agricultural, and other projects in Bali and its surrounding islands.
Small-Island Projects Now Need a KKP Recommendation Through OSS
Permen KKP 13/2026 replaces the 2024 small-island regime with an OSS recommendation process for PT PMA projects, including site verification, spatial and environmental review, land-use limits, a seven-day PNBP payment window, annual reporting, and active enforcement.
Klungkung property taxpayers can obtain automatic cancellation of PBB-P2 principal and fines through tax year 2021 by clearing the required 2022–2026 liabilities no later than 30 September 2026.
Klungkung Moves Advertising Permits Onto a Digital Siting Map
Klungkung Regent Regulation 22/2026 requires constructed advertising to use types, sizes, and coordinates set by the Regent's digital map, and reinforces building-approval, application, and removal controls.
Indonesia, with the new used-electronics route limited to the Batam Free Trade and Free Port Zone (KPBPB Batam) and separate exemption powers for other KPBPB.
Batam Opens a Regulated Route for Used Industrial Electronics
Permendag 23/2026 allows specified used electronic goods to be imported for industrial needs in KPBPB Batam from 9 October 2026, subject to an API-P NIB, prior import approval, destination controls, and the amended tariff and technical requirements.
DJP Is Emailing New Companies With Unfiled 2025 Returns
DJP announcement PENG-52/PJ.09/2026 confirms direct email outreach to corporate taxpayers registered in 2025 whose 2025 annual corporate income-tax returns remain unfiled, requiring affected companies to verify the sender and complete filing through Coretax.
Permen LH/BPLH 11/2026 creates the operating route for domestic and international carbon trading from industrial solid waste, industrial and domestic wastewater, and domestic solid waste, with project validation, environmental-compliance screening, government approval, and SRUK recording.
BPS Corrects KBLI 2025 Descriptions for Tourism Areas and EV Batteries
BPS Regulation 6/2026 replaces the KBLI 2025 attachment and corrects or clarifies its descriptions, with principal changes to codes 27201, 27203, and 68122 that should now be used for OSS and business-licensing analysis.
Indonesia Restores Its Anti-Evergreening Patent Rule
Constitutional Court Decision 255/PUU-XXIII/2025 again excludes new uses of known products and new forms of known compounds without a meaningful efficacy improvement from patentable inventions in Indonesia.
Buleleng property taxpayers can obtain automatic cancellation of PBB-P2 principal and fines through tax year 2021 by clearing the required 2022–2026 liabilities no later than 30 September 2026.
Minister of Law Regulation 14/2026 makes publication of PT formations and articles-of-association amendments an electronic process integrated with SABH; the State Gazette number is generated only after the applicable PNBP is paid.
Indonesia, including every province and regency or city in Bali
Protected Rice-Field Conversion Needs an ATR Recommendation
Presidential Regulation 4/2026 blocks conversion of mapped protected rice fields that have not yet been integrated into sustainable-food-agricultural land in the spatial plan until the ATR Minister issues a land-use change recommendation.
The investigation concerns Yogyakarta and Gunungkidul, but the investor-ITAS rules and compliance lesson apply throughout Indonesia, including Bali.
Immigration Cross-Checks Investor ITAS Against Actual Activity
Immigration deported an investor-ITAS holder after finding that his actual work did not match the permit and that the sponsoring company's registered office was no longer operating.
Denpasar August Regional Taxes Are Due 14 September
Denpasar Bapenda requires August 2026 returns and payments for key PBJT categories and groundwater tax by 14 September 2026, with administrative sanctions starting on 15 September.
Selected Indonesian land offices, including Badung and Buleleng, Bali
Badung and Buleleng Join the 10-Day Electronic Land Transfer Pilot
ATR/BPN's PERINTIS pilot targets a 10-day electronic process for specified land and apartment-right transfers, with Badung and Buleleng included among the pilot land offices.
AHU Can Mark Companies Inactive After Five Years Without Updates
AHU Circular AHU-AH.01-36/2026 places corporations with no administrative update during the preceding five years on a provisional inactive list and makes the status permanent if the data is not updated within six months after notification.
Badung Creates Tax and Licensing Incentives for Investors
Badung Regulation 1/2026 creates an application route for foreign and domestic investors to seek regional tax relief, licensing facilitation, location support, and other investment incentives.
ATR/BPN Opens Paid Bulk Access to Land and Spatial Data
PMK 63/2026 introduces maximum tariffs for 60-day access to ATR/BPN thematic land and spatial datasets, with minimum orders of 1,000 parcels or 1,000 hectares.
Buleleng Changes BPHTB Valuation, Payment, and Penalty Rules
Buleleng Regulation 15/2026 changes the local BPHTB framework, including valuation fallbacks, tax-free thresholds, electronic payment rules, transfer timing, and a 1% monthly late-payment charge.
Inclusive Companies Can Qualify for Licensing and Workplace Incentives
PP 31/2026 creates an incentive route for private companies that employ persons with disabilities, provide qualifying concessions, or operate accessible tourism services.
BPHTB Verification Now Has 1- and 3-Day Service Limits
A joint ATR/BPN and Home Affairs circular sets nationwide BPHTB review timeframes, links land and local-tax data, and allows some registrations to proceed before final verification while temporarily freezing later land services.
Outsourcing Is Now Limited to Six Supporting-Work Categories
Permenaker 7/2026 limits outsourced labour to specified supporting work, requires contract registration within three working days, and gives existing arrangements until 30 April 2028 to align their work categories.
Bali Targets Nominee Landholding and Productive-Land Conversion
Bali Regulation 4/2026 prohibits conversion of productive land designated in spatial plans and targets anyone who facilitates nominee structures giving foreign nationals beneficial control of land.
Bali Coastal Projects Must Preserve Beach Access and Local Use
Bali Regulation 3/2026 protects customary, social, and local-economic use of beaches and coastal setbacks, with sanctions extending to permit cancellation, demolition, and restoration of spatial function.
DJP has designated the 2026 NTT earthquake as force majeure and waived specified late-filing, late-payment, and tax-invoice penalties when affected taxpayers complete the covered obligations by 30 September 2026.
Tourism Regulation 6/2025 introduces current business standards, supervision procedures, and administrative sanctions for risk-based tourism licensing.