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Tax and LKPM non-compliance recovery is the process of correcting overdue Indonesian tax filings and investment activity reports before penalties escalate into business suspension, and in most cases it costs far less than the silence that got you here. If your PT PMA has gone months or years without filing SPT, LKPM, or both, the fastest way back to good stan...

Permendag No. 19 of 2026 is Indonesia’s new rulebook for trade conducted through electronic systems, and it changes what a marketplace can let you sell without proof of a valid business license. It took effect on 8 June 2026, replacing Permendag No. 31 of 2023, and it now sits alongside a separate overhaul of trademark rules under Permenkum No. 5 of 2026. For...

An OSS rejection happens when the Online Single Submission system flags a mismatch, a missing document, or a zoning conflict in a PT PMA or NIB application and stops the process before a Business Identification Number can be issued. It is not always a dead end. Some rejections are a two-minute data correction. Others mean redoing the notarial deed. The differ...

Trademark squatting is the practice of registering someone else’s brand name, logo, or slogan with Indonesia’s Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DJKI) before the real owner does, usually with no intention of ever using it commercially. Under Indonesia’s first-to-file system, the person who files first generally wins the legal right to the mark, no...

A DJP tax audit (pemeriksaan pajak) is a formal review by Indonesia’s Directorate General of Taxes to test whether a taxpayer’s reported and paid tax matches what the law actually requires, carried out under Minister of Finance Regulation No. 15 of 2025 on tax audit procedure. For a PT PMA, the fear is rarely about having done something wrong on purpose. It’s...