KBLI 2025 Mandatory for New Company Registrations and Amendments from 15 June 2026

From 15 June 2026, every application to establish a company in Indonesia must use KBLI 2025 codes. The same applies to every amendment of an existing company's Articles of Association, purposes, objectives, or business activities. The Ministry of Law and the Ministry of Investment/BKPM announced the implementation date jointly, covering both AHU Online and the OSS system.

The announcement, issued by the Directorate General of Legal Administration (Ditjen AHU) together with BKPM, sets out two rules.

New Companies Must Be Classified Under KBLI 2025

The first rule covers establishments. Every application to establish a business entity filed from 15 June 2026 must use business activity codes and descriptions based on KBLI 2025. This applies to legal entities, meaning limited liability companies (PT), single-person companies (Perseroan Perorangan), and cooperatives. It applies equally to non-legal-entity forms: civil partnerships (Persekutuan Perdata), firma partnerships, and limited partnerships (CV).

In practice, this changes nothing about the establishment process itself. What changes is the classification step. The activity you register, and everything that follows from it, including the risk level, the licensing requirements, and the foreign ownership position, will be read against the KBLI 2025 structure.

Existing Companies Convert When They File a Change

The second rule covers amendments, and this is the one that reaches existing companies. Any application to amend the Articles of Association, or to change a company's purposes, objectives, or business activities, filed from 15 June 2026 must include an adjustment of the company's codes to KBLI 2025.

The practical consequence is broad. Corporate changes in Indonesia routinely touch the Articles: a change of business activity, a capital increase, a shareholder restructuring. From 15 June, any such filing carries a KBLI conversion with it. A company that has not reviewed its codes will discover the conversion requirement in the middle of a filing it needs completed, which is the worst time to discover it.

Most Existing Companies Are Converted Automatically

For companies whose business is not changing, the transition is designed to be hands-off. No adjustment is required where the update is only a code renumbering based on the official conversion table and the substance of the business stays the same.

The manual route applies where something actually changes. A company that expands, adds activities, or amends its purposes and objectives adjusts its codes through the normal notarial deed process.

The same applies where an old code was split into several narrower KBLI 2025 codes, because the system cannot decide on its own which one fits the business. As the Minister of Law put it when announcing the scheme: codes that simply change are handled automatically, while businesses that genuinely change follow the procedure so their legality stays secure.

The Regulations Behind the Date

BPS introduced KBLI 2025 through BPS Regulation No. 7 of 2025, promulgated on 18 December 2025, replacing KBLI 2020.

The licensing systems, however, continued to process filings on the old codes while the government prepared the transition, so the new classification existed on paper without being usable in practice.

The implementation rules followed in a Joint Circular (SEB) signed on 25 March 2026 by the Minister of Investment/BKPM, the Minister of Law, and the Head of BPS.

The circular confirmed that existing licenses remain valid, established the automatic conversion mechanism, and required BKPM and the Ministry of Law to complete the KBLI 2025 integration in OSS and AHU by 18 June 2026.

The 15 June go-live announced this week delivers on the mandate, three days inside it.

What Companies Should Do Now

Check How Your Codes Convert

Start by comparing your registered codes against the new KBLI 2025 codes. A code that maps one to one converts automatically and needs nothing from you. A code that was split into several narrower codes, or merged with others, needs a decision about which classification fits your actual activities, and that decision is yours to make, not the system's.

Time Your Filings Around 15 June

If you have a corporate change pending, build the conversion into it rather than treating the two as separate exercises. Any amendment filed from 15 June carries the KBLI adjustment with it in any case.

If you are planning a new entity, classify it under KBLI 2025 from the start.

Verify Your OSS Profile After the Switch

After 15 June, log into OSS and review your converted codes. In most cases, they will match your business as before. However, if a converted code no longer describes what your company actually does, you can correct it through an Articles amendment.

It is better to spot this early than during a license renewal, a bank process, or a tender, when the mismatch starts costing time.

If you are unsure about the process and need assistance, get in touch with our local Emerhub team. We map your current codes to the new system, advise where a renumbered or split code requires a decision, and handle the conversion as part of your establishment or amendment filing.

If your company has a corporate change planned, or you want your codes reviewed before the systems switch over, contact our team and we will take it from there.