Indonesia has more than 200 million people online and the marketplaces that reach them, Tokopedia, Shopee, Lazada, TikTok Shop, are where a large share of the country’s retail now happens. Since 8 June 2026 the rules for selling on them…
Since 1 July 2026, an Indonesian bank will sell you no more than USD 10,000 of foreign currency against rupiah in a month unless you can show what the money is for, and it will not send more than USD…
On 27 August 2026, in Paris, Ursula von der Leyen told the French employers’ federation that EUR 10 trillion of European household savings are “sitting idle” in bank accounts and that Europe now needs to put them to work for…
A PT PMA does not close by being ignored. This is the single most expensive misunderstanding in the post-incorporation life of a foreign-owned company in Indonesia, because the assumption behind it is reasonable and the consequence of it is not.…
Indonesia introduced the E33G in 2024 as the first permit written specifically for people who live here and work for someone abroad. It is widely assumed to be a tax-free arrangement, and that is the part worth looking at closely,…
A Sertifikat Standar is the document that turns a business classification into a business you are actually permitted to run. The NIB records which KBLI codes a company is registered against, and for a great many of those codes the…
A PT PMA can hold land in Indonesia, in the sense that matters, and the right it holds is called Hak Guna Bangunan. Most explanations stop at that sentence, which leaves out the part that actually decides whether a transaction…
On 1 August 2026 Thailand’s Department of Business Development began examining the financial trails behind Thai shareholders in companies that have foreign involvement. It is the most recent step in a campaign that has been building since late 2024, and…
Under KBLI 2020, one code covered most of what a property company in Bali might do. Owning a villa, renting it out, managing someone else’s, holding land for development, all of it sat under 68111. Under KBLI 2025 that single…
The recent Bali case brought two technical points into focus for foreign founders here: a PT PMA is only authorized to do what its KBLI covers, activated in OSS with the right Sertifikat Standar; and a KITAS only authorizes what the KITAS type says it does. What proper setup looks like for a community-driven activity.