Foreign-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.

Key points

• Signed on Wednesday 9 September 2026 in Jakarta by Manpower Minister Yassierli, Investment and Downstreaming Minister/BKPM head Rosan P. Roeslani, and Immigration and Corrections Minister Agus Andrianto, as joint decrees (SKB) integrating foreign-worker (TKA) services across the three ministries.
• Systems joined: OSS (Investment Ministry/BKPM) becomes the single entry point, connected to SIAPkerja (Manpower Ministry — RPTKA, the foreign-worker utilisation plan) and All Indonesia (Immigration — the VITAS limited-stay visa, ITAS limited-stay permit and ITAP permanent-stay permit).
• Target: around five days. Investment Minister Rosan put the process at "roughly four to five days," consistent with PP 28/2025 on risk-based business licensing, and Immigration Minister Agus Andrianto committed to five days for the immigration steps. Officials are quoted as saying permits will be issued automatically if the deadline is exceeded; how that works in practice will only be clear once the system is live.
• Go-live: the integrated service is due to start at the end of September 2026. Until then, the existing separate processes apply.
• What does not change, as announced: which positions foreign workers may fill (the Manpower Minister referred to a "positive list" of roles for which no Indonesian expert is available), the obligation to transfer knowledge to Indonesian staff, and the DKP-TKA compensation fund — no change to the DKP-TKA rate was mentioned.
• Framing: the government presents the change as investment facilitation, for foreign workers who accompany investment. The announcements do not spell out whether every employer's applications will route through the new flow, so confirm your own case once it is live.

Sources

• Kementerian Ketenagakerjaan — Perkuat Tata Kelola Investasi, Pemerintah Integrasikan Perizinan TKA (primary source; SKB signed 9 September 2026)
• ANTARA News — Pemerintah memangkas proses perizinan TKA lewat integrasi OSS (17:26 WIB, 9 September; Rosan Roeslani, PP 28, late-September start)
• Tempo — Pemerintah Terbitkan Regulasi Kemudahan Perizinan TKA (16:14 WIB, 9 September; RPTKA, VITAS, ITAS, ITAP)
• detikFinance — Pemerintah Permudah Izin Tenaga Kerja Asing, 5 Hari Langsung Terbit (15:43 WIB, 9 September; automatic issuance, end-of-September go-live)
• CNN Indonesia — Pemerintah Percepat Urus Izin Pekerja Asing, Target 5 Hari Kelar (17:39 WIB, 10 September; Agus Andrianto, Yassierli on the positive list)