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Jakarta, 20 October: the student demonstration at Tugu Tani ended in an orderly way at about 18:50 WIB with no incidents reported; organisers announce a larger national action for 28 October
Student groups have announced demonstrations in central Jakarta for Tuesday 20 October 2026, two years after Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka took office. BEM UI, the University of Indonesia's student executive board, says it will join other universities and civil-society coalitions. The gathering points reported are Tugu Tani on Jalan Raya Kebon Sirih and Tugu Proklamasi in Menteng, with further action reported around the Istana. The Japanese Embassy in Indonesia issued a demonstration notice on 19 October for the same day, naming the areas around the DPR, Monas and Bundaran HI. Jakarta's traffic police unit (TMC Polda Metro Jaya) advises avoiding the Monas area, Jalan Sudirman–Thamrin and the MPR/DPR building unless necessary, and says traffic will be diverted depending on conditions. No crowd estimate has been published and the reports we read give no start time. Update, 21 October: the Tugu Tani action began at 15:00 WIB on 20 October and the crowd dispersed in an orderly way at about 18:30 to 18:50 WIB after hanging a banner with five demands on the monument; the reports we read mention flares being burned and no injuries, clashes or arrests. BEM UI says a larger follow-up action is planned for Wednesday 28 October, Youth Pledge Day, with the gathering point not yet announced.
Read morePMK 55/2026 tightens who can be a licensed tax consultant — and who can act as your taxpayer representative
Promulgated and effective 24 August 2026, PMK 55/2026 on Tax Consultants and Other Parties Acting as Taxpayer Representatives replaces PMK 111/2014 (as amended by PMK 175/2022). It sets 14 requirements for obtaining a tax consultant license — including Indonesian citizenship, a bachelor's degree, passing the tax consultant professional examination and competency test, and a five-year cooling-off period for former Ministry of Finance staff — and retires the SIKOP licensing portal in favour of a transitional system. It is the licensing counterpart to PMK 44/2026, which governs who may hold your power of attorney for tax matters. Update, 20 October: registration for the first competency tests under the regulation has opened (see key points). Update, 28 October: tax-consultant licensing moved to the Satu-ProfKeu platform on 27 October (see key points).
Read moreGovernment announces Q4 2026 stimulus package (provisional Rp31 trillion): income-tax relief for workers under Rp10 million to be extended to all sectors from January 2027 and the PTKP to rise — amounts and regulations still to come
On 4 October 2026 the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs (spokesperson Haryo Limanseto) announced a set of programmes agreed at a meeting chaired by President Prabowo with Coordinating Minister Airlangga Hartarto and the Finance Minister. The provisional allocation is about Rp31 trillion, still being reviewed by the Finance Ministry. For employers the relevant item is income tax: the PPh Article 21 reduction for workers earning under Rp10 million a month is to be extended to all sectors, covering 7.5 million workers, and an adjustment to the non-taxable income threshold (PTKP) is being discussed with the Finance Ministry. The release gives no regulation number, start date or period for either, and we have found no regulation implementing them as of 20 October. The rest of the package covers rice aid for October–December 2026, a three-month wage subsidy of Rp300,000 a month for 13.3 million workers, housing VAT incentives extended to 2027, contribution discounts for non-wage workers, and internship and vocational programmes. Update, 26 October: at the 21 October cabinet session the Coordinating Minister presented four Q4 measures (rice aid, the wage subsidy, a one-person-one-account programme and a Christmas and New Year transport incentive), and the government-borne VAT on domestic economy flights, part of that transport incentive, is now in force as PMK 77/2026 (see our separate entry). We have still found no regulation for the PPh 21 or PTKP items. Update, 28 October: the nine measures for 2027 that the Coordinating Minister presented at the cabinet session target a January 2027 start; the PMK for the expanded PPh 21 relief is planned to be signed before 1 January 2027, and the PTKP rise has the President's approval in principle but no amount.
Read moreJakarta, 28 October (Youth Pledge Day): students are held at police barricades on Jalan Sudirman in front of the UOB building short of Bundaran HI, with pushing and shoving at about 15:55 WIB — several students reportedly fainted, and no arrests are reported
The national action called by BEM UI and the Komite Sadar alliance on Wednesday 28 October 2026, Youth Pledge Day, is under way in central Jakarta. It is centred on Bundaran HI, with Polda Metro Jaya also naming the DPR/MPR building, Monas and Tugu Tani. Crowds began gathering from about 14:00–14:30 WIB, and students from the University of Indonesia, Politeknik Negeri Jakarta, Universitas Pancasila and other groups were stopped by police barricades on Jalan Jenderal Sudirman in front of the UOB building, short of Bundaran HI. At about 15:55 WIB the situation heated up with pushing and shoving between students and police, and one outlet reports a video that appears to show an officer hitting a student's head, which is alleged and not confirmed. Several students reportedly fainted in the crush at about 14:00 WIB and were treated by medics from among the demonstrators; the reports we read, up to 16:32 WIB, mention no arrests, and none says tear gas was fired, although a NU Online reporter described police carrying two launchers as tear-gas launchers. This entry describes the position as of about 16:40 WIB on 28 October; the action was still going on, and it will be updated.
Read moreKalimantan forest-fire smoke was seen over Jakarta, Banten and West Java in Himawari-9 imagery on 16 October — BMKG says it stayed in the atmosphere and is now moving away, and that Jakarta's worse air is mainly local emissions
On 16 October 2026 a post on X went viral saying that, according to Himawari 9 satellite data, smoke from the Kalimantan forest fires was heading for West Java and Jakarta. The substance is confirmed by BMKG, Indonesia's meteorology agency, with an important limit. BMKG says its Himawari-9 imagery on Friday 16 October identified smoke from the fires over parts of Banten, DKI Jakarta and West Java, and that the smoke has so far been detected in the atmosphere, not at ground level. BMKG's satellite-analysis team lead said it has reached Jakarta by area but not yet vertically to the surface, and that it could reach the surface, thinly, if the wind weakens. BMKG's Secretary General said BMKG still has to establish whether concentrations are actually rising at the surface or the smoke is only passing through the upper atmosphere. The evening before, BMKG's Bandung station had said the wind direction meant the smoke would not cross West Java. On Friday afternoon Jakarta's governor said the city's air has worsened over recent days, did not attribute that to the fires, and ordered hospitals and health centres to prepare. Update, 20 October: BMKG said on 19 October that its latest monitoring shows the smoke moving away from western Java, including Jabodetabek, and on 20 October its Director of Applied Climate Services said Jakarta's recent worsening air quality comes mainly from vehicle emissions, industry and waste burning, not the haze, with PM2.5 rising since June 2026. Smoke at ground level was never confirmed. Air-quality readings reported by the press differ by source and time (see the timeline).
Read moreHow a labour inspection now runs: Permenaker 11/2026 (in force 3 July) and its amendment Permenaker 15/2026 (in force 12 October) set written orders with 30- and 14-working-day deadlines and a 14-working-day payment deadline for wage shortfalls
Manpower Minister Regulation (Permenaker) 11/2026 on labour inspection procedures, signed on 29 June and promulgated and in force on 3 July 2026 (State Bulletin 2026 No. 438), replaced Permenaker 33/2016 and its 2020 amendment. Permenaker 15/2026, signed on 8 October and promulgated and in force on 12 October 2026 (State Bulletin 2026 No. 681), amends it. Together they set how labour inspectors work: guidance first, then inspections that end in written orders (Nota Pemeriksaan I and II) which the employer must carry out and report on, and, for shortfalls in overtime pay, minimum wage or work-accident benefits, a calculation and determination of the amount owed, which the employer must pay within 14 working days. Some breaches — a workplace accident causing death or permanent disability, child labour contrary to the rules or in its worst forms, and offences with a criminal element — can go straight to criminal enforcement. We did not publish either regulation when it was issued, so this entry is dated as a late discovery.
Read moreFuel and power supply problems are surfacing across Indonesia's regions: the Ombudsman found fuel stock-outs in six provinces and queues in 17 on 17–18 October, while rolling blackouts hit parts of Kalimantan and Batam
Since early October fuel and electricity supply problems have appeared in several Indonesian regions at once, though the reports give different causes in different places and the Ombudsman says the characteristics differ by region. Bali was the centre of the fuel problem: Pertalite stopped arriving on 9–10 October, stations ran out from 11 October, queues in Denpasar passed two kilometres with waits of four to six hours on 14 October, and civil servants worked from home on 15–17 October. Queues and stock-outs were also reported in East Java and, in the Ombudsman's provisional check on 17–18 October, stations ran out of stock in six provinces and queues formed in 17. Separately, Batam had a wide blackout on 12 October, and rolling blackouts occurred in parts of Kalimantan: West Kalimantan, where a 54-day overhaul of the Ketapang coal-fired plant is cutting night-time supply, and Balikpapan on 19–20 October. The Energy Minister says national fuel stock is 16–18 days and calls the fuel problem one of distribution; subsidised fuel prices and the 3 kg LPG price are being held to the end of the year. We have not seen a nationwide shortage reported, and several of the figures are provisional.
Read morePMK 77/2026: the government bears 100% of the VAT on domestic economy-class flights bought from 20 October 2026 for travel from 22 December 2026 to 10 January 2027
Finance Minister Regulation PMK 77/2026, signed on 12 October 2026 and promulgated on 20 October 2026, when it took effect, makes VAT on scheduled domestic economy-class air transport a government-borne item (PPN DTP) for budget year 2027. The government bears 100% of the VAT on the base fare and the fuel surcharge for tickets bought from 20 October 2026 to 10 January 2027 for flights from 22 December 2026 to 10 January 2027. The airline issues the tax invoice or equivalent document, reports the borne VAT in its monthly VAT return and files a transaction list electronically with DJP by 31 March 2027. Because the rule took effect on 20 October, before we published it, this entry is dated as a late discovery. The Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs described the Christmas and New Year transport incentive, which includes government-borne VAT on domestic air travel, at the 21 October cabinet session.
Read more2027 minimum wage: the Manpower Ministry's line has shifted — on 6 October a director general said the current regulation still applies, on 21 October the minister said the formula will refer to the new Labor Protection Law
The question we reported on 21 September — whether the 2027 minimum wage would follow the Labor Protection Bill — now has had two different answers from the Manpower Ministry. On 6 October, after DPR passed the law, Indah Anggoro Putri, the Manpower Ministry's Director General for Industrial Relations and Social Security, said that next year the minimum wage still uses the current government regulation ("Tahun depan kan masih pakai PP yang sekarang") and that the new wage rules are expected to be used first for the 2028 minimum wage, because the law takes effect one year after it is enacted and promulgated. Under the rules in force today, the adjustment is inflation plus economic growth multiplied by an index of 0.50–0.90 (PP 49/2025), provincial minimum wages must be announced by 21 November and district/city minimum wages by 25 November, and all take effect on 1 January. On 21 October, Manpower Minister Yassierli said at the Presidential Palace that the 2027 formula 'refers to the new law', that discussion starts in the national tripartite forum (LKS Tripnas) and then goes to the National Wage Council, that the decent-living-needs (KHL) calculation the law requires will be worked out, and that governors set the rate with their regional wage councils; the reports do not say how this fits with PP 49/2025 or with the law taking effect one year after it is enacted. The formula question is therefore open again for 2027, and the timing question is open too, because last year the formula regulation itself only arrived on 17 December and moved the 2026 deadline to 24 December. The unions' 7.5–9.5% proposal is still a proposal, and we have found no official 2027 rate.
Read moreRupiah passes Rp18,000 per US dollar on 16 October; on 21 October Bank Indonesia holds the BI-Rate at 5.75%, raises the deposit facility rate to 5.00% and widens its hedging incentives
On the morning of Friday 16 October 2026 the rupiah weakened past Rp18,000 per US dollar, from a close of Rp17,938 the day before. Bank Indonesia said the same day that it will stay in the market through offshore NDF trades, domestic spot and DNDF trades and secondary-market purchases of government bonds (SBN), and that outflows from domestic portfolio assets are expected to continue. One outlet reports that on Monday 19 October the rupiah closed at Rp18,046 and Bank Indonesia's JISDOR reference rate was Rp18,050. Press reports tie the pressure to a stronger US dollar and risk-off sentiment and, in two of the reports we read, to MSCI opening a consultation on reclassifying Indonesia's stock market from Emerging Market to Standalone Market. Update, 21 October: after its 20–21 October meeting the Board of Governors held the BI-Rate at 5.75% and the lending facility rate at 6.50%, raised the deposit facility rate to 5.00% from 4.75%, cut banks' rupiah reserve requirements in two steps from 1 November, and raised the premium reduction in its DNDF hedging incentive. This is a macro item: no tax or reporting obligation changes, and it is not a view on the rupiah or on the board's decisions.
Read moreFrom 25 October, e-commerce platforms must cut fees for verified micro and small sellers of domestic products by at least 50% — registration is through the SAPA UMKM app
On 16 October 2026 the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (Kementerian UMKM) announced that, from 25 October, platforms for electronic trading (PMSE), meaning e-commerce platforms, must cut at least 50% off the admin fee, the commission fee or the basic store application fee they charge verified micro and small sellers of domestic products. The measure implements Ministerial Regulation (Permen UMKM) 3/2026 on protecting and strengthening the competitiveness of micro and small businesses in electronic trading, with the application and verification procedure in Ministerial Decision (Kepmen UMKM) 398/2026. Micro businesses are those with capital up to Rp1 billion or annual sales up to Rp2 billion; small businesses have capital above Rp1 billion up to Rp5 billion or annual sales above Rp2 billion up to Rp15 billion (PP 7/2021), with capital excluding land and buildings. Sellers register through the SAPA UMKM app, the platform verifies the data within 10 calendar days, and the reduction is given within five days after the two-stage verification. We have not read the regulation or the decision themselves, and the reports name no platform.
Read moreIndonesia's new Labor Protection Law passed on 6 October 2026, 25 days ahead of the Constitutional Court deadline — its number, effective date and implementing rules are still to come
On Tuesday 6 October 2026 the DPR plenary session approved the Labor Protection Law (UU Pelindungan Ketenagakerjaan) — 23 chapters and 313 articles, with every faction in agreement — answering the Constitutional Court's order to separate the labor provisions from the 2023 Job Creation Law, 25 days before its 31 October 2026 deadline. As reported, it keeps fixed-term contracts (PKWT) to an initial two years with up to two one-year extensions, limits outsourcing to five support services, requires State-owned enterprises to outsource through subsidiaries, bans employers from withholding diplomas, and creates a severance reserve fund alongside Job Loss Insurance (JKP). As of 8 October the law has no number and no published official text. A Manpower Ministry director general said on 6 October that it takes effect one year after it is enacted and promulgated; the President has up to 30 days to sign it, and it becomes law automatically if it is not signed in that time, with implementing regulations to follow. Union leaders called passage historic; employers had warned beforehand about the bill's 33 criminal provisions, and the Apindo chair said on 7 October that Apindo had not yet received the official text.
Read moreDJP's KEP-239/PJ/2026 opens a tax-sanction relief window: seven categories, most with a 30 June 2027 cut-off, and requests due by 1 October 2028
Director General of Taxes Decision KEP-239/PJ/2026, signed on 8 October 2026 and in force the same day, puts into operation the sanction relief created by Article 27A of PMK 118/2024 as inserted by PMK 71/2026 (see our separate article). It says taxpayers "are granted" reduction or removal of administrative sanctions in seven categories: late filing of income-tax returns that show tax underpaid (annual returns up to tax year 2025, monthly returns up to September 2026), voluntary corrections, late payment, sanctions in assessment and collection letters issued from an audit, those issued before 8 October 2026, collection letters issued during the window, and sanctions on assets from the 2021 voluntary disclosure programme. Most categories qualify if the return is filed, or the tax and related amounts are paid, by 30 June 2027 (31 December 2027 for the voluntary-disclosure category); requests must reach DJP by 1 October 2028; and relief applies only to sanctions that are still unpaid, never to the tax itself. Media report the relief for late filing as 100% removal for returns filed from 8 October to 31 December 2026, 50% from 1 January to 31 March 2027 and 25% from 1 April to 30 June 2027; the Decision's annex, which sets the rate for each category, is not in the text we could read. DJP's Director General said on 14 October that the sanctions that could qualify total about Rp14.8 trillion and that the programme could bring in about Rp40.2 trillion of principal tax — an estimate, not a target. Update, 20 October: DDTCNews reports that requests can be filed through Coretax (see key points).
Read moreJapan's government: the Japan–Indonesia Specified Skilled Worker memorandum was renewed for six months from 25 June 2026 — Indonesian applicants need not file proof of Indonesian-side procedures
This item comes from the Japanese government, not from an Indonesian regulation. Japan's Immigration Services Agency says that on 23 June 2026 the Japanese Embassy in Indonesia and Indonesia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs exchanged notes extending the Memorandum of Cooperation on Specified Skilled Workers (SSW) for six months from 25 June 2026. The previous extension was much longer: the memorandum was signed in Jakarta on 25 June 2019 and extended for two years from 25 June 2024 by an exchange of notes on 21 June 2024. The page does not state the new end date; six months from 25 June 2026 would fall around late December 2026, which is our inference. For Indonesian nationals, the agency also says residence applications need not include documents proving that the Indonesian-side procedures were completed, and that using an Indonesian placement company (P3MI) is optional. We have not seen any Indonesian announcement of the renewal.
Read morePMK 68/2026 sets a 0% import duty on six plastic raw-material tariff lines for six months from 9 October
Finance Minister Regulation PMK 68/2026, signed on 28 September 2026 and promulgated on 2 October, inserts a new Article 4B into PMK 26/PMK.010/2022, the regulation that sets the goods classification and import duty rates. It gives a 0% import duty to plastic raw materials under six tariff lines — 3901.10.12, 3901.10.19, 3901.10.99, 3902.10.30, 3902.10.90 and 3902.30.30 — for six months from the date the regulation takes effect. It takes effect seven days after promulgation, which the Finance Ministry's legal database gives as 9 October 2026, so the 0% rate would run to about 9 April 2027 by our reckoning. Because the effective date had passed when we found it, this entry is dated as a late discovery.
Read moreJapan–Indonesia EPA duty rules were reset: PMK 60/2026 applies from 1 August, and PMK 69/2026 revised the 0% raw-material lists on 2 October
Indonesia reset the import duties it applies to Japanese-origin goods after the Protocol amending the Japan–Indonesia Economic Partnership Agreement (IJEPA) came into force on 1 August 2026, ratified in Indonesia by Presidential Regulation 32/2026. PMK 60/2026, signed and promulgated on 31 July and in force from 1 August, replaced PMK 50/PMK.010/2022. It sets preferential rates for each tariff line in an annex, stepped by year from 2026 to 2031; a tariff-rate quota of 8,500 tonnes a year with an in-quota rate of Rp450 per kilogram; a 0% "User Specific Duty Free Scheme" (USDFS) for listed Japanese raw materials; and a 5.25% rate on certain steel scrap, capped at 65% of the previous year's scrap volume. PMK 69/2026, signed on 28 September and in force from 2 October, replaced the two raw-material annexes (B and C), reported as 258 and 13 tariff lines. We missed both when they were issued and are adding them now, as a late discovery. This is Indonesian customs law implementing a treaty with Japan; the Japanese side of the Protocol is not covered here.
Read morePMK 71/2026, in force since 2 October, reworks tax objections and sanction reductions — and opens a two-year window to ask DJP to reduce or remove administrative sanctions
Finance Minister Regulation PMK 71/2026, set on 29 September 2026 and in force since its promulgation on 2 October 2026, amends PMK 118/2024 on corrections, objections, and the reduction, removal and cancellation of tax decisions. Three changes matter most to a taxpayer. First, a new Article 27A lets the Director General of Taxes, "in order to boost the national economy", reduce or remove administrative sanctions in assessment letters (SKP) and tax collection letters (STP), and reduce land-and-building-tax (PBB) administrative fines, on applications filed within two years of the regulation taking effect — provided the Article 23 conditions are met, including that the underlying tax has been paid in full. Second, when such an application is assessed, payments on the letter are applied to the unpaid principal tax first and only any excess counts against sanctions. Third, DJP's objection review expressly lists exchanging tax information with partner-country authorities among its steps, and a taxpayer who does not attend the objection hearing has 10 working days from the date the summons notice was sent to submit comments on DJP's review findings. The rule is already in force, so this entry is dated as a late discovery. Update, 15 October: DJP has since issued Decision KEP-239/PJ/2026 (8 October), which sets the categories, cut-off dates and conditions of the Article 27A relief and makes 1 October 2028 the last day to apply — see our separate article.
Read moreRaised again: Anak Krakatau returns to Level III (Siaga) on 9 October, with a 5 km exclusion zone, after 14 eruptions in four days
Our other articles on this crisis track airport closures and reopenings, the missing-journalists search, and earlier health/ashfall guidance — this entry is a standing, dedicated log of the volcano's own activity. The alert has now gone back up. After eight discrete eruptions on 6–9 September and no further eruption through 20 September, Badan Geologi lowered Anak Krakatau from Level III (Siaga) to Level II (Waspada) on 21 September at 18:30 WIB, with the exclusion radius cut from 3 km to 2 km. Activity then rose again from early October: Badan Geologi counted 14 eruptions from 6 to 9 October, and at 21:00 WIB on Friday 9 October it raised the volcano back to Level III (Siaga). The exclusion zone is now 5 km around the crater, plus 1 km around the new island-like mounds to its northwest and southeast. The Anak Krakatau monitoring post counted 26 eruptions in a 24-hour window, reported on 10 October, though visual observation was limited because some cameras were down and no ash column was observed; BMKG's satellite analysis showed ash dispersal up to about 6,000 ft (1.8 km) toward the west over part of the western Sunda Strait. Disaster expert Daryono of IABI said the raise is a step towards vigilance, not a reason to panic. We found no airport closure, NOTAM, or ferry disruption reported for 9–12 October. We will keep updating this log independently of the other articles, since the volcano itself is what determines whether the underlying hazard has actually passed.
Read moreSPP-TDLN, the VAT collection system for foreign digital purchases under PMK 49/2026, went live on 25 September 2026 — the day after we reported it had not started
Signed 14 July 2026 and effective 20 July 2026, PMK 49/2026 provides the rules for SPP-TDLN — a system where banks and payment providers collect VAT at the point of payment on intangible digital goods and services bought from abroad, such as foreign SaaS subscriptions and digital tools. Update: the system is now running. DJP announced on 24 September (announcement PENG-6/PJ.09/2026) that it would implement SPP-TDLN "effective 25 September 2026" — one day after this article reported, citing DJP's public-relations director on 23 September, that it had not started and had no new date. Director General Bimo Wijayanto confirmed the go-live at a Finance Ministry media gathering in Bogor, reported on 2 October. Six payment issuers were designated as VAT collectors at the start — BRI, Mandiri, BNI, BTN, BSI and LinkAja — and others were still in sandbox testing. DJP stresses that SPP-TDLN is not a new tax and does not change the VAT rate. We missed the 24 September announcement and are correcting the record now.
Read moreFinance Minister says tax refunds that are due "will be paid" and, on 9 October, that refund management will be loosened — while PMK 28/2026 keeps preliminary-refund rules tight and DJP faces Rp750 trillion still to collect
Tax refunds (restitusi) have become one of the most visible pressure points on businesses in Indonesia this year, and the new Finance Minister addressed them in his first budget press conference on Friday 18 September. Suahasil Nazara said refunds that are a business's right "will certainly be given," and that he has instructed Director General of Taxes Bimo Wijayanto to manage refunds — including communicating how they are being managed. That is reassurance, not a change of policy: three days earlier Bimo had described refund processing as "selective, more measured, more planned" and directed at sectors that are genuinely compliant, with several companies' claims under audit. DJP's own figures, released the same day, show refunds paid from January to August down 37% on a year earlier, at Rp191.82 trillion. The rules underneath have tightened too. PMK 28/2026, in force since 1 May, cut the ceiling for fast-track (preliminary) VAT refunds from Rp5 billion to Rp1 billion per period and added a Rp4.2 billion deliveries cap, voided every existing "compliant taxpayer" designation, and made re-qualifying harder. The same briefing put the budget deficit at Rp240.1 trillion (0.93% of GDP) at the end of August; the latest full-year outlook, published in July, is 2.85% of GDP — above the 2.68% budgeted and close to the 3% legal ceiling. Update, 9 October: at the next monthly briefing Suahasil said refund management "will soon be loosened"; DJP's figures show Rp198.71 trillion refunded from January to September, down 38.08% on a year earlier, and Director General Bimo said about Rp750 trillion of this year's tax target is still to be collected, to be pursued through supervision, audits and enforcement by December.
Read moreThe 2027 state budget passed on 29 September: spending Rp4,106.26 trillion, a 2.4%-of-GDP deficit, a Rp2,593 trillion tax target and a Rp17,500-per-dollar rupiah assumption
The DPR plenary session passed the 2027 state budget (APBN 2027) on 29 September 2026, on the figures the Budget Committee (Banggar) and the government had settled on 24 September: state revenue Rp3,435.10 trillion, spending Rp4,106.26 trillion, and a deficit of Rp671.16 trillion — 2.4% of GDP, down from the 2.85% outlook for 2026. Tax revenue is budgeted at about Rp2,593 trillion, up 12.2% on the 2026 outlook of Rp2,310.8 trillion, with customs and excise at Rp318.6 trillion and non-tax revenue (PNBP) at Rp522.48 trillion. The macro assumptions include growth of 6%, inflation of 2.5% and a rupiah rate of Rp17,500 per US dollar. This is macro, not compliance: no tax rate or filing rule changes with the budget law. What it does show is the collection effort DJP is being asked to deliver, which is what turns into audits, information requests and refund scrutiny at company level. The law has no number yet in the sources we checked.
Read morePerpres 27/2026 on ride-hailing and delivery platforms was released on 8 October: a platform-fee cap of 8%, written partnership agreements, and implementing rules due by 31 December
On 8 October 2026 the government released Presidential Regulation 27/2026 on the protection of the digital-platform transport ecosystem, covering transport of people, goods and food through apps. At a press conference at the DPR, the Minister of MSMEs, Maman Abdurrahman, said it is to be bound by partnership agreements between platforms and drivers; the Minister of Transport, Dudy Purwagandhi, said platform fees for motorcycle-taxi drivers are capped at 8%; and the Deputy Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs, Nezar Patria, will set service fees for goods and food delivery. A task force chaired by the Minister of MSMEs will coordinate the partnership agreements, and ministries must issue implementing rules by 31 December (the report does not give the year). Media report that drivers keep their status as partners rather than employees. We have not seen the regulation's text: the sources we could read do not give the dates it was signed or promulgated, and its title is reported in two forms, so treat the details as reported.
Read moreIndonesia's 2027 holidays are set: 18 national holidays and 8 collective-leave days, including a 10-day stretch around Nyepi and Idulfitri in March
A Joint Decree of three ministers, signed on 15 September 2026, sets Indonesia's national holidays and collective-leave days for 2027: 18 national holidays and 8 collective-leave (cuti bersama) days. It is numbered 1205, 3 and 2 of 2026. Seven of the 18 holidays fall on a Saturday or Sunday, and all 8 collective-leave days fall on weekdays. The State Secretariat notes that collective leave is applied to civil servants under the relevant regulations, while private employers decide for themselves how to apply it. The longest stretch is in March: Nyepi on Monday 8 March, Idulfitri on 10 and 11 March, and collective leave on 9, 12 and 15 March together give 10 consecutive days off, 6–15 March, for anyone who takes every collective-leave day.
Read moreLabor's threatened 100,000-worker escalation never came: the Labor Protection Law passed on 6 October with a peaceful rally outside the DPR building
The KBPBI labor coalition's rallies over the Labor Protection Bill all ended without violence: about 50,000 workers in central Jakarta on 24 September (organisers' figure, dispersed after about 40 minutes), then around 20,000 at the DPR building on 29 September. The 100,000-worker action the coalition threatened for early October if there was no progress by 30 September never materialised. On Monday 5 October Commission IX and the government agreed to take the bill to a plenary vote, and on Tuesday 6 October about 6,000 workers (police estimate) rallied outside the DPR building while the plenary session passed the law, with 11,261 personnel deployed. DPR leadership and the new National Police Chief came out to meet the crowd, and the Police Chief thanked the workers for an orderly action. Police have notified rallies at the DPR on three days, 6–8 October, from 10:00 WIB: for 7 October, PPPK and part-time PPPK government contract workers (Aliansi Merah Putih) were scheduled, and the group for 8 October has not been identified. We found no Japanese Embassy advisory we could confirm for the 24 September, 29 September or 6 October actions.
Read moreDJP's PER-12/PJ/2026, in force since 1 October, changes how tax returns are corrected in Coretax — a correction now counts what you have already paid and been refunded
Director General of Taxes Regulation PER-12/PJ/2026, set on 28 September 2026 and in force since 1 October 2026, amends PER-11/PJ/2025 on the reporting of income tax, VAT, luxury-goods tax and stamp duty in Coretax. The main change concerns corrections. DJP says that under the old method, correcting an overpaid return to a smaller overpayment could produce an apparent underpayment ("kurang bayar semu") with penalty exposure; a correction is now computed against the tax already paid and any refund already issued. Tax media describe this as ending the "delta" method, in which a correction showed only the difference from the original return, and returning to a "replace" method in which the corrected return stands in for the original. The regulation also sets how overpaid PPh Article 21/26 and VAT balances carried forward are adjusted after a correction or assessment, lets a withholder appoint officials or employees to sign withholding slips, and spells out what a correction does to pending refund requests and to instalment or deferral approvals. The rule came into force on 1 October, so this entry is dated as a late discovery.
Read moreCorrection, again: marketplace withholding of PPh Article 22 was not delayed to November — DJP moved it earlier instead, to 1 October 2026
This article has now been corrected twice. We first reported that Tokopedia, Shopee, Lazada and Blibli would start withholding PPh Article 22 from domestic merchants on 1 August 2026; that start was postponed, and as of 18 September DJP was still telling reporters collection would begin 1 November 2026 (see the correction below). DJP has since moved earlier again: it designated the four marketplaces as collectors by Director General decree on 24 September 2026, and announced on 1 October 2026 that withholding starts on 1 October — not 1 November — citing the platforms' systems and administrative readiness. In practice Shopee, Tokopedia, Blibli and Lazada apply it to transactions from 2 October 2026 (Shopee: from 00:00 WIB). DJP's own framing is that the government had allowed an adjustment period running to 31 October 2026, and simply decided not to use all of it, rather than announcing a second postponement. The substance remains unchanged throughout: 0.5% of gross turnover, withheld by the platform, with individual merchants under Rp500 million in annual turnover exempt if they submit a turnover statement.
Read moreJapan's government, not Indonesia's: Japan will require a pre-entry TB chest X-ray for Indonesian nationals moving there long-term, from 2 November 2026
A change of direction from our usual coverage: this is a Japanese government requirement, not an Indonesian one, but it matters for any entity that sends Indonesian staff, trainees or dependents to Japan for more than three months. On 25 September 2026, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Immigration Services Agency announced that Japan Pre-Entry Tuberculosis Screening (JPETS) — already running for the Philippines, Nepal and Vietnam — will start operating for Indonesia. Screening reception begins 2 November 2026, and submitting a "TB Clearance Certificate" becomes mandatory for Certificate of Eligibility (CoE) and direct visa applications from 4 January 2027. The certificate requires a medical exam, including a chest X-ray, at a Japan-designated screening institution in Indonesia, and is valid for 180 days (90 days in some cases) from the X-ray date. Without it, a CoE application is, in principle, denied rather than accepted and left pending. We are adding this as a standing watch item: Japanese-government measures that touch Indonesian nationals or Indonesia-based operations, flagged here as such, not folded into our usual Indonesian-regulation categories.
Read moreIndonesia's Tax Court is moving under the Supreme Court by 31 December 2026 — the implementing Presidential Regulation is a draft out for consultation, and dispute procedures do not change yet
Indonesia's Tax Court — where taxpayers appeal DJP assessments and refund decisions — is being moved from the Ministry of Finance to the Supreme Court. Constitutional Court Decision 26/PUU-XXI/2023 (pronounced 25 May 2023) rewrote Article 5(2) of the Tax Court Law (Law 14/2002) to read that the organisational, administrative and financial supervision of the Tax Court is carried out by the Supreme Court, implemented in phases no later than 31 December 2026. On 23 September the Ministry of Finance held a public consultation on the draft Presidential Regulation that will implement the transfer; officials target enactment in October. The message to taxpayers from the consultation is continuity: the Tax Court Law keeps governing how disputes are handled until it is revised, existing cases continue, and the transition follows "soft landing" and "hold harmless" principles so that services to the parties are not disrupted. Tax Court judges are to take Supreme Court judge status, while secretariat staff keep their finance-ministry employment while assigned to the Supreme Court for a period.
Read moreSurakman is buried in Pandeglang; Basarnas says the search for the other seven continues as a routine operation, not a reopened joint search
A speedboat carrying five journalists and three crew members lost contact near Anak Krakatau on Monday 7 September while covering the eruption. The joint search-and-rescue operation was officially halted on 17 September after ten days, with none of the eight found. On 23 September, DNA testing identified the body found on Enggano Island (Bengkulu) on 12 September as crew member Surakman (60); his remains reached Soekarno-Hatta Airport on the morning of 24 September, where Pandeglang Regent Raden Dewi Setiani received them, and his family buried him the same day. The identification prompted the Indonesian Press Photographers Association (PFI) to formally ask Basarnas and the joint TNI/Polri SAR team to reopen the search, arguing the discovery counts as the new evidence the agency said would justify it. Basarnas has not formally reopened the joint search: Banten SAR head Al Amrad said on 23 September that the seven days plus a three-day extension produced no sign of the remaining victims and that finding Surakman does not automatically restart a large-scale operation, while on 24 September Basarnas head Marsekal Madya Mohammad Syafii said searching "continues" because the operation "has been shifted to a routine operation" — routine monitoring across several regions, including Bengkulu and Enggano Island, without a concentrated focus. The Pandeglang district government says it is in contact with the authorities and respects their decisions, while hoping Surakman's location may help map ocean currents for a possible future discovery of the other seven. Warning broadcasts to vessels in the Sunda Strait continue. This is separate from our articles on airport closures and the volcano's own eruption activity — it is a search-and-rescue story that happens to be connected to the same eruption.
Read moreBank Indonesia holds the BI-Rate at 5.75% — the first decision announced by Governor Destry Damayanti, taken to steady the rupiah
At its Board of Governors meeting on 22–23 September, Bank Indonesia left the BI-Rate at 5.75%, with the deposit facility at 4.75% and the lending facility at 6.50%. It is the third consecutive hold since the rate reached 5.75% on 18 June, at the end of 100 basis points of increases in May and June, and it is the first decision announced by Destry Damayanti since she took office as governor on 2 September. She framed it as consistent with a strategy of rupiah stability "amid strong external pressures": the rupiah has weakened for several sessions, trading around Rp17,850 per US dollar on Wednesday morning, after the US Federal Reserve raised its own policy rate by 25 basis points on 16 September. August inflation was 3.19% year on year, inside Bank Indonesia's 2.5%±1% target. Nothing in this decision changes a filing obligation — what it touches is your rupiah revaluation at month-end and the benchmark your borrowing prices off.
Read moreGlobal minimum tax: every Indonesian entity of an in-scope multinational group must register as a GloBE taxpayer by 30 September 2026 — and no one can do it for them
If your group's consolidated revenue reaches EUR 750 million, Indonesia's global minimum tax rules now come with an administrative deadline that is a week away. Under PER-6/PJ/2026 — the Director General of Taxes' implementing regulation for PMK 136/2024, in force since 4 May 2026 — each constituent entity in Indonesia must apply through Coretax to have GloBE taxpayer status added to its own tax record, no later than nine months after the end of the first GloBE year. For groups whose first GloBE year was calendar 2025, that means 30 September 2026. DJP officials made the point again on 22 September that this cannot be delegated: every constituent entity registers itself, there is no lead entity, and the later GloBE return cannot be filed by one entity on behalf of the others. If a company does not apply, DJP can assign the status ex officio after an administrative review. DJP has said thousands of entities are expected to fall in scope.
Read moreForeign-worker permits move to a single OSS window with a five-day target, due to go live at the end of September
Three ministries — Manpower, Investment and Downstreaming/BKPM, and Immigration and Corrections — signed joint decrees (SKB) on 9 September 2026 to bring the permits an employer needs for a foreign worker into a single entry point on the OSS (Online Single Submission) system. Today the chain runs across three separate systems: RPTKA approval in the Manpower Ministry's SIAPkerja, then the VITAS visa and the ITAS or ITAP stay permit in Immigration's All Indonesia application. Under the SKB these are connected so an application starts once, on OSS. The government's stated target is around five days end to end, and officials are quoted as saying permits will be issued automatically if the deadline is exceeded. The integrated service is due to go live at the end of September 2026. We missed the signing in our sweeps that week; we are publishing it ahead of the go-live date, which is the date that matters for anyone with a foreign hire or a stay-permit renewal in the pipeline.
Read moreExport-proceeds retention eases for some mining exporters from 1 September — but only if a shareholder is American, Chinese, Hong Kong, Australian or Canadian
Indonesia requires exporters of natural resources to park their export proceeds (DHE SDA) onshore: outside oil and gas, that means 100% of proceeds held for 12 months in a state-owned foreign-exchange bank — a significant working-capital lock-up. From 1 September 2026, Article 18A of PP 21/2026 (the second amendment to PP 36/2023) relaxes this for a narrow group: mining exporters may instead retain a minimum of 30% for a minimum of three months, and may use private and foreign banks rather than only state banks. The catch is the eligibility test. A company qualifies only if it is a PT in mining **and** has at least one shareholder from the United States, China, Hong Kong, Australia or Canada holding at least 10%. Japan is not on that list — so a Japanese-owned mining exporter stays on the 100%/12-month rule regardless of how large its stake is. The government identified 64 qualifying exporters out of 537 reviewed.
Read moreIndonesia replaces its Finance Minister again: Suahasil Nazara takes over from Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa after 371 days
President Prabowo Subianto replaced Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa with Suahasil Nazara on Monday 14 September 2026, in what local media count as the sixth reshuffle of the Merah Putih cabinet. Suahasil — Deputy Finance Minister since October 2019 and a former head of the Fiscal Policy Agency (BKF) — was sworn in at the State Palace at around 15:30 WIB for the remainder of the 2024–2029 term, making him the third person to hold the finance portfolio under Prabowo after Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Purbaya. No official reason was given for the change, and Purbaya had been at a DPD working session on the 2027 draft state budget that same morning. Markets took it badly at first: the IHSG fell as much as 2.5% intraday before closing almost flat on the day, then dropped a further 1.13% on Tuesday, while the rupiah weakened on both days to around Rp17,694 per US dollar.
Read moreUpdate: labor's 10 September action across 30 regions went peacefully — the separate Cirebon march's outcome remains unconfirmed
Two unrelated actions landed on the same day, Thursday 10 September. The labor action — organised under the broader KBPBI coalition, which includes KSPSI, following KSPSI's own "apel siaga" instruction the week before — took place simultaneously in around 30 regions nationwide to press DPR and the government over the still-being-drafted Labor Protection Bill (see our separate article tracking the bill itself). It went peacefully: Jakarta's component gathered at City Hall and the DKI Jakarta DPRD building on Kebon Sirih, 25 worker representatives were received by the DPRD Speaker, and no violence or road closures were reported. Separately, a grassroots group called Aliansi Masyarakat Cirebon Melawan had a march planned for the same day specifically at the national DPR building in Jakarta, under the banner "Cirebon Menggugat," over unrelated demands (cutting lawmakers' pay and allowances, raising income for ride-hailing drivers, contract teachers and laborers). Despite an extensive search, we could not find a published report on how that march actually went — its outcome remains unconfirmed. No Japanese Embassy advisory was issued for the date.
Read moreUpdate: Soekarno-Hatta and four other airports reopen overnight — Garuda resumes Jakarta flights in phases from 8 September
Mount Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait, on Level III (Siaga) alert since 2 July 2026 with no escalation since, was in continuous lava-fountain eruption from 23:07 WIB on Friday 4 September 2026 — the strongest activity of the year, with satellite-detected ash at roughly 15 km — punctuated by further discrete eruptions at 03:53 and 07:10 WIB on Sunday 6 September, before the continuous phase itself paused at 00:04 WIB on 6 September; Badan Geologi says monitored ash dispersal is continuing regardless. BMKG data as of 04:00 WIB on 6 September showed the low-level ash cluster over parts of DKI Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Banten and West Java (as far as Bandung the previous evening), with ashfall confirmed on the Serang coast and in Bandar Lampung; Banten's governor and the disaster agencies in Banten and Lampung have asked residents in ashfall areas to wear masks outdoors. Soekarno-Hatta (CGK) has been closed under a series of revised NOTAMs (A3341/26 → A3344/26 → A3346/26 → A3348/26 and further overnight revisions) since 01:30 WIB on 6 September, extended repeatedly — briefly to eight airports on Sunday evening, back to six by Monday morning — as further paper tests kept returning positive; a fresh discrete eruption at 20:23 WIB Sunday night (58 mm amplitude) added to the picture, and the six core airports (Soekarno-Hatta, Halim Perdanakusuma, Radin Inten II, Budiarto, Pondok Cabe and Husein Sastranegara) remained closed into Monday morning, targeted to reopen at 08:59 WIB on 7 September. Conditions are being reassessed every few hours, and the Transport Minister has said reopening timing genuinely depends on BMKG's evolving analysis, not just a clean paper test — treat every reopening estimate here as provisional. Cumulative flight-impact counts have kept climbing: Soekarno-Hatta alone reported 923 flight movements and 119,215 passengers affected by 20:54 WIB Sunday, and Garuda Indonesia has cancelled all its Jakarta/Bandung/Lampung flights into Monday around noon. Volcanologists have stated the rebuilt cone is too small to trigger a tsunami. As of Monday afternoon, one of the eight airports (Atung Bungsu, Pagar Alam) has reopened after a negative paper test, while the remaining seven were extended to 18:00 WIB; InJourney Airports separately reports 2,300 flights and 268,539 passengers affected across its four managed airports since 5 September. By mid-afternoon, Soekarno-Hatta had tested negative for ash four times running, with three more airports also reporting clean results, yet the Transport Minister was still not rushing to reopen, citing a wind-direction reversal — a same-day, seemingly contradictory statement from Soekarno-Hatta's own spokesperson said testing was still positive. By evening, every remaining closed airport (Soekarno-Hatta, Halim, Radin Inten II, Husein Sastranegara, Budiarto, Pondok Cabe and Taufik Kiemas, plus a newly-closed small airport, Salakanagara at Tanjung Lesung) was extended once more, to 23:59 WIB, with the Coordinating Minister citing VAAC data on ash still sitting over Lampung/Banten/Jabodetabek rather than the paper test result. Overnight into Tuesday 8 September, the main closure story resolved: Soekarno-Hatta, Halim Perdanakusuma and Husein Sastranegara reactivated at 00:01 WIB, with Budiarto and Pondok Cabe following at 02:25 WIB, and Garuda Indonesia resuming Jakarta flights in phases from the same moment, each cleared by a fresh safety and airworthiness check. Of the nine airports closed at some point since the weekend, six are now open; Radin Inten II, Taufik Kiemas and Salakanagara remain shut with no confirmed reopening time. Cumulative impact over the multi-day closure stood at roughly 1,558–2,300 flights depending on which airport count is used. This entry is organised as a timeline; further updates will only follow if the remaining airports' status changes materially.
Read moreAnak Krakatau ash reaches inside Jakarta city — West Jakarta, Mega Kuningan and MRT stations dusted; BPBD DKI tells residents to wear medical masks outdoors
Beyond the airport closures already under way (see our separate article on Anak Krakatau's eruption and Soekarno-Hatta), ash from the volcano has been reported settling inside Jakarta city itself on the morning and early afternoon of Sunday 6 September 2026 — not just in the outer ring of Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi. Residents in West Jakarta and the Mega Kuningan business district reported dust on vehicles and surfaces, and social media photos showed TransJakarta bus shelters and MRT stations looking dustier than usual. BPBD DKI Jakarta says exposure inside the city is "thin" and can change with wind, but is asking residents to wear medical (not cloth) masks outdoors, seal up buildings, and reduce outdoor time for vulnerable groups. Jakarta's air quality index also read in the "unhealthy for sensitive groups" range that morning, though the monitored data does not attribute this specifically to volcanic ash rather than ordinary urban pollution.
Read moreWith Jakarta-area airports closed, here's how to still get in and out of Indonesia — Bali, Surabaya, Medan and Yogyakarta remain unaffected with direct Singapore/Kuala Lumpur flights
With Soekarno-Hatta and the other seven Jakarta-area/Sunda Strait airports closed on and off since 6 September (see our main article on the eruption and airport closures), the practical question for anyone needing to enter or leave Indonesia right now is which gateways still work. The ash cloud from Anak Krakatau covers Jakarta, Banten, West Java, Lampung and parts of South Sumatra and Bengkulu — it does not reach Bali, East Java, North Sumatra or Yogyakarta. Ngurah Rai (Denpasar/Bali), Juanda (Surabaya), Kualanamu (Medan) and Yogyakarta International Airport (YIA) have all been confirmed operating normally, with only knock-on schedule adjustments on their own Jakarta-bound flights — and all four carry standing scheduled international routes to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, not just emergency diversions. Separately, the government has activated five airports (Kertajati, Ahmad Yani/Semarang, Juanda, YIA and Adi Soemarmo/Solo) as 24-hour diversion hubs for flights that would otherwise have gone to the closed Jakarta-area airports, with free bus and Whoosh high-speed rail connections from the Jakarta area to Kertajati.
Read moreHealth Ministry activates emergency centres over Anak Krakatau ash — 3.3 million elderly "at risk," first two hospitalisations confirmed in Serang
Beyond the airport closures and the ashfall reaching Jakarta itself (see our other articles), the health response to Anak Krakatau's ash has escalated on 7 September 2026. Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has told residents of affected areas to stay indoors unless necessary and to always wear a mask and eye protection outdoors, and the Ministry has activated its Health Emergency Operating Centre (HEOC) from the national level down to district/city health offices in Banten, DKI Jakarta and West Java, instructing puskesmas and hospitals to run 24 hours in case of a patient surge. The Ministry's Director for Vulnerable-Group Health Services says roughly 3.3 million elderly people across the five affected provinces (Lampung, Banten, DKI Jakarta and parts of West Java) face elevated health risk, citing the sharp silica content of volcanic ash as more dangerous to lungs, eyes and skin than ordinary dust. Banten's provincial health office has confirmed the first two hospitalisations — Serang residents referred for acute respiratory infection (ISPA) — while stressing that ISPA case volumes at community health centres remain stable overall. Jakarta's own air quality index climbed through the day, from 101 at 06:00 WIB to a projected peak of 156 in the evening.
Read moreDestry Damayanti sworn in as Bank Indonesia Governor — new leadership takes office for the 2026–2031 term
On 10 August 2026, President Prabowo Subianto formally submitted Destry Damayanti's nomination as the sole candidate for permanent Governor of Bank Indonesia to the House of Representatives (DPR), alongside candidates for Senior Deputy Governor and Deputy Governor. Update: on 27 August 2026, DPR's Commission XI approved by consensus Destry Damayanti as Governor, Aida S. Budiman as Senior Deputy Governor, and Solikin M. Juhro as Deputy Governor, all for the 2026–2031 term. The DPR plenary session ratified the appointments on 1 September 2026, and on 2 September 2026 all three were sworn in before the Chief Justice at the Supreme Court under Presidential Decree No. 92/P/2026 — Destry Damayanti is now formally Governor of Bank Indonesia.
Read moreUpdate: the 27 August rally near DPR turned violent overnight — one bystander killed, tear gas fired, tollgates closed — as part of a genuine wave of unrest across Indonesia in August 2026
August 2026 has been an active month for demonstrations across Indonesia, with real violence outside Jakarta even though no single Jakarta "mega demo" matched the more alarming rumors circulating online. On 11 August, protesters in Ilaga, Puncak (Papua Tengah) burned seven government buildings in a dispute over village-fund disbursement. In Jakarta, a student-led march on 18 August drew a deployment of 9,242 police personnel, and a Central Java coalition (AMPB) has maintained a continuous sit-in outside the DPR building since 21 August. On 26 August, the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta issued a formal advisory warning that thousands were expected at a demonstration on 27 August near Monas and the DPR. Update: that demonstration did escalate overnight into 28 August — protesters breached part of the DPR's perimeter fence, police fired tear gas, several tollgate entrances were temporarily closed, and a 59-year-old bystander (a mirror vendor uninvolved in the protest) was killed and a student injured in a separate mob attack nearby in Pejompongan, Central Jakarta. A distinct, larger labor rally (50,000 workers, tied to the standalone Labor Law bill) remains postponed to early September 2026.
Read morePP 30/2026 raises Indonesia's trademark registration and renewal fees 55%
Promulgated 2 July 2026 and effective 1 August 2026, PP 30/2026 resets the non-tax state revenue (PNBP) fee schedule at Indonesia's Ministry of Law, replacing PP 45/2024. For general (non-UMK) applicants, trademark registration rises from Rp 1.8 million to Rp 2.8 million per class — DJKI's first adjustment to this fee since 2016 — while patent fees and UMK/small-business trademark rates are unchanged.
Read moreBank Indonesia Governor Perry Warjiyo resigns; Destry Damayanti takes over as acting governor
Perry Warjiyo resigned as Governor of Bank Indonesia for personal reasons. The State Secretary announced the resignation on the morning of 27 July 2026; Senior Deputy Governor Destry Damayanti becomes acting governor.
Read moreSE-9/PJ/2026 sets the procedure for DJP requests for bank and financial data
Issued 16 July 2026 to implement PMK 108/2025, SE-9/PJ/2026 is DJP's internal guideline for requesting account information, balances and transaction details from banks and other financial institutions for tax purposes. DJP has publicly clarified it applies to all taxpayers, not only high-net-worth individuals.
Read moreSE-8/PJ/2026 sets new timeframes for taxpayer compliance reviews
Issued 15 July 2026, this Director General circular consolidates taxpayer compliance supervision into a single risk-based framework aligned with Coretax, replacing four earlier circulars and setting explicit working-day limits for each type of review.
Read moreDJP moves all tax administration into Coretax from July 2026
The Directorate General of Taxes announced that Coretax becomes the core system for the entire tax administration process — supervision, enforcement, collection, and objections and appeals are moving into the single system in stages.
Read morePMK 44/2026 resets the rules on who may act as your tax representative
Promulgated and effective 6 July 2026, PMK 44/2026 replaces PMK 229/PMK.03/2014 and rewrites the requirements for acting as a tax representative (kuasa) in Indonesia — including how competency must be evidenced and a cooling-off period for former Ministry of Finance staff.
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