Indonesia KBLI 2025 Live in OSS & AHU: Certification Impact

Indonesia Applies KBLI 2025 Across OSS and AHU: What Equipment Certification Applicants Must Do

Indonesia has switched its business licensing infrastructure to a new industrial classification standard, and the change reaches further than corporate registration alone. From 15 June 2026, the Online Single Submission (OSS) system and the AHU Online system operated by the Directorate General of General Legal Administration (Ditjen AHU) both run on the 2025 Indonesian Standard Industrial Classification (KBLI 2025), replacing KBLI 2020. Because every equipment type approval application in Indonesia is filed through a locally registered legal entity, this is not a purely corporate matter it is an upstream prerequisite for market access.

For manufacturers relying on an Indonesian importer or local representative to hold their SDPPI/Komdigi certifications, the practical message is simple: the entity's OSS account must carry valid KBLI 2025 codes, or downstream licensing activity can stall.

What Changed and When

The classification itself was issued months earlier. Statistics Indonesia (Badan Pusat Statistik, BPS) enacted BPS Regulation No. 7 of 2025 on 18 December 2025, introducing KBLI 2025 and revoking the previous KBLI 2020 (BPS Regulation No. 2 of 2020). What happened in June 2026 was the operational switch inside the two government systems that businesses actually use.

To guide the transition, BKPM (the Ministry of Investment and Downstreaming), the Ministry of Law, and BPS jointly issued a Joint Circular Letter (Surat Edaran Bersama, SEB) signed on 25 March 2026. The circular is a guidance instrument it sets out how codes are adjusted, confirms that existing licences stay valid, and provides a conversion table mapping KBLI 2020 codes to KBLI 2025. It is not a new type approval rule.

The go-live sequence ran as follows: BKPM took the OSS system offline for maintenance on 13–14 June 2026, and OSS returned to service on 15 June 2026 running on the KBLI 2025 database. From that date, both OSS and AHU Online stopped accepting the old codes for new filings.

What Indonesia KBLI 2025 Means for Manufacturers

The reclassification changes the reference framework that sits beneath every business licence and every equipment authorisation lodged through a local entity. Three consequences matter most for manufacturers and their Indonesian representatives.

New filings must use KBLI 2025. Any application submitted from 15 June 2026 establishing a new legal entity, or amending an existing entity's articles of association, purposes, objectives, or business activities must use KBLI 2025 codes and descriptions. This applies to limited liability companies (PT), single person companies, cooperatives, and unincorporated forms such as civil partnerships, firma partnerships, and limited partnerships (CV). Filing with a retired KBLI 2020 code risks the submission being rejected or held.

Most conversions are automatic, but not all. Where a KBLI 2020 code maps one to one to a KBLI 2025 code, the OSS and AHU systems convert it automatically using the official conversion table, and no company deed amendment is required. A deed (akta) or articles of association amendment is only triggered where there is a substantive change to the company's purposes or scope of activities, where the entity separately files such a change from 15 June onward, or where a later licensing step requires the Business Identification Number (NIB) and the articles of association to be consistent. Codes that were split into several narrower classifications, or merged, require a business decision about which classification matches the entity's actual activities.

Risk levels can shift. KBLI 2025 introduces more granular five digit codes for activities that KBLI 2020 did not capture well including artificial intelligence, digital content creation, crypto-asset trading, carbon unit transactions, and green economy sectors. Because the OSS Risk Based Approach (OSS RBA) assigns licensing obligations by risk level, a reclassified activity can move an entity's risk tier (for example, from Medium Low to High), changing the permits and conditions attached to it. Importers whose activity codes touch electronics and telecommunications trade should confirm that their mapped codes still reflect their real operations and expected risk level.

Certification Impact Summary

KBLI 2025 does not alter Indonesia's technical type approval requirements. What it changes is the business entity foundation those applications depend on.

Area	Position before 15 June 2026	Position from 15 June 2026	Action for certification applicants
Classification standard	KBLI 2020 in OSS and AHU	KBLI 2025 in OSS and AHU	Confirm the OSS/NIB record reflects KBLI 2025 codes
New entity registration	KBLI 2020 codes accepted	KBLI 2020 codes not accepted	New local reps/importers must incorporate under KBLI 2025
Existing licences	Valid	Remain valid within their validity period	No new licence needed; verify code alignment
Code conversion	n/a	Automatic for 1:1 mappings	Check split/merged codes manually against the conversion table
Company deed (akta/AOA)	Based on KBLI 2020	Amendment only if substance changes or NIB/AOA consistency required	Amend only where triggered; do not assume automatic requirement
Type-approval prerequisite	Valid NIB with correct codes	Valid NIB with KBLI 2025 codes	Align OSS account before lodging certification submissions
Business risk level	Set under KBLI 2020	May shift under KBLI 2025 (OSS RBA)	Re check risk tier for electronics/telecom trade activities

Timeline and Required Actions

Date	Milestone	Required action
18 December 2025	BPS Regulation No. 7 of 2025 enacted; KBLI 2025 issued, KBLI 2020 revoked	Note the new standard; obtain the KBLI 2020→2025 conversion reference
25 March 2026	Joint Circular Letter (SEB) signed by BKPM, Ministry of Law, BPS	Review adjustment mechanism and conversion table
13–14 June 2026	OSS system maintenance shutdown	Plan around the outage; avoid scheduling filings in this window
15 June 2026	KBLI 2025 goes live in OSS and AHU Online	Use KBLI 2025 codes for all new filings and amendments
No later than 18 June 2026	System integration deadline under the SEB	Confirm the entity's OSS/AHU record has converted correctly
No later than 19 June 2026	BPS six-month full-adoption deadline	Complete outstanding KBLI 2025 alignment for all active entities
Ongoing	Certification and licensing filings	Verify OSS account and NIB carry valid, activity-matched KBLI 2025 codes before each submission

Recommended checklist for manufacturers and local representatives:

1. Log into the OSS account for each Indonesian entity and confirm the NIB now shows KBLI 2025 codes.

2. Compare each registered code against the official conversion table; flag any split or merged codes for manual decision.

3. Confirm the mapped codes still match the entity's actual activities, including electronics and telecommunications trade or import where relevant.

4. Check whether any reclassification has shifted the entity's OSS RBA risk level and, with it, its licensing conditions.

5. Amend the articles of association only where a substantive change or a NIB/AOA consistency requirement is actually triggered.

6. Use the free online KBLI 2025 dictionary (Kamus KBLI) to identify the correct five-digit codes for new or refined activities.

7. Verify OSS alignment before lodging any type approval or licensing application that runs through the entity.