What our Indonesia company report includes
Our Indonesia reports are researched directly from sources including the Ministry of Law (Kementerian Hukum) AHU company registry, the OSS business licensing system, the Directorate General of Taxes registry and on-the-ground enquiry through our established Indonesian network; fees may apply for certain records. The information returned from any one source reflects what the company has filed and what is publicly accessible when the search is run. We translate and present everything in clear English.
In October 2024, Indonesia's Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham) was split into three ministries; company legalization and the AHU (general legal administration) registry now sits under the Ministry of Law (Kementerian Hukum).
Identity & registration
- ✓ NIB (Nomor Induk Berusaha, business identification number)
- ✓ NPWP (taxpayer identification number)
- ✓ Registered company name and legal form (PT, CV, Firma)
- ✓ Date of incorporation and notarial deed reference
- ✓ Registered office and operating address
- ✓ Licensing status under OSS (Online Single Submission) (case-specific)
People & ownership
- ✓ Direksi (board of directors) and Komisaris (commissioners)
- ✓ Shareholders and authorised capital
- ✓ Issued and paid-up capital
- ✓ Beneficial ownership where disclosed
- ✓ Parent and group structure
Financial & trading
- ✓ Turnover and profitability (where available)
- ✓ Business activities and KBLI classification
- ✓ Import/export licence (API-U, API-P) status (case-specific)
- ✓ Employee count and operating premises
- ✓ Risk indicator and calculated credit limit
Risk & public records
- ✓ Court judgements (SIPP) and PKPU / bankruptcy filings
- ✓ Tax compliance status (case-specific)
- ✓ Administrative penalties and licence suspensions (case-specific)
- ✓ Trade references and payment behaviour where available (case-specific)
Note on Indonesia data: Indonesian company filings are spread across multiple agencies: Kemenkumham for incorporation, OSS for licensing, DJP for tax, BKPM for foreign investment. Financial statements are filed by listed companies and large entities only. For SMEs and family-owned PTs, our agents research the available records to establish trading status, and may ask the company for supplementary information, which it may or may not choose to provide.
Why verify a Indonesian company?
Indonesia is the largest economy in ASEAN and one of the fastest-growing sourcing markets in the world. As buyers reduce single-country dependence on China, Indonesian textiles, footwear, palm oil, coffee, rubber, automotive components and electronics assembly have all moved up the priority list. The country's licensing regime has been substantially modernised through the OSS system, and identifiers like the NIB now make it possible to confirm whether a company is actually registered. What public records do not tell you, however, is whether that company actually trades, and that is the most common point of failure for new buyers in Indonesia.
Three patterns recur. The first is paper-only entities: a PT exists in Kemenkumham records, holds the right licences on OSS, and presents a credible website, but has no warehouse, no staff and no genuine production capability. Prepayments to these entities are the single most common Indonesian fraud directed at first-time overseas buyers. The second is name confusion: in a country with millions of small businesses, the name on a quotation may match several registered companies, and the trading party may not be the one with the assets. The third is structure: a contracting entity may be a marketing arm with deliberately limited capital, while production sits in a related entity that the buyer never deals with directly.
Beyond fraud, ordinary commercial risk is also significant. Family ownership is the norm for Indonesian SMEs, succession is rarely formalised, and access to bank credit has historically been uneven. The PKPU regime (Indonesia's debt suspension and restructuring procedure) is heavily used and is a useful early indicator of distress, but most counterparty issues emerge earlier through trade behaviour rather than formal filings. Our agents can research Indonesia's available commercial sources to pick those signals up before they become problems.
For any meaningful commitment in Indonesia such as sole-supplier arrangements, prepayments, distribution agreements, joint ventures, or equity participation, an investigated report is the standard tool used by every experienced foreign buyer and investor in the market. The cost is modest relative to the typical exposure; the alternative is doing the verification yourself in Bahasa Indonesia.