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KBLI 72202

Humanities R&D

Penelitian dan Pengembangan Humaniora

🔬 Section M — Professional, Scientific & Technical

In Bali: open to a PT PMA

✅Open· 100% ForeignNew in 2025🏝️✅Registrable in Bali· needs review· low conf.⏳Crosswalk audit pending

Humanities Research in Indonesia, With a Clear Bali Boundary

This activity covers systematic humanities research and development, open to full foreign ownership nationally while requiring address-specific verification in Bali.

By the numbers
Foreign-ownership ceiling
100%
National source
Perpres 10/2021, 49/2021
Bali status
Registrable in Bali
Bali moratorium source
Gubernur letter B.27.000/642/PM/DPMPTSP
National openness is clear, while Bali requires an address-specific reading rather than a blanket assumption.
What Changed

KBLI 2020→2025 mapping: bps only.

What You Need

Nationally, this activity is fully open for foreign ownership. In Bali, it is not blocked by the moratorium but has a medium-high risk classification, so you will likely need to verify your business address and may encounter additional local licensing steps or inspections — the activity is registrable but requires careful compliance. **Risk tier under review.** No KBLI-2025 risk scope for this code could be retrieved from the OSS API when this dataset was built, so we cannot currently verify the tier this page's assessment was derived from. Where this page states a risk tier or a scale-based requirement, treat it as provisional pending re-derivation, and verify the current classification at oss.go.id before acting on it.

Who This Is For

Foreign researchers, cultural foundations, or academic institutions wanting an official legal entity to conduct humanities research in Bali's rich cultural environment.

Sources & Verification

Each data layer below traces to a government source with its KBLI vintage — or is declared as a gap. Nothing in these layers is silently filled in.

Activity definition
BPS Peraturan 7/2025 + PP 28/2025VerifiedKBLI 2025

Title and scope as defined by the KBLI-2025 classification.

locator: OSS_RBA_2025_id_version_fff4053d

Risk & licensing
No OSS-RBA rows retrievable — special / sectoral regimeDeclared gap—

No KBLI-2025 risk scope was retrievable from the OSS API for this code (ruang-lingkup 404), and no licensing rows are served on this page. Activities in this group are typically licensed under a special or sectoral regime — on the crosswalk watchlist: if OSS publishes a scope, the code is re-adjudicated.

Foreign ownership (PMA)
Perpres 10/2021, 49/2021Declared gap—

Our sources record no KBLI-2020 predecessor for this code, so we cannot trace how the investment-list verdict shown here was assigned to it. The value is served as-is, not as a verified determination — confirm it at oss.go.id before relying on it.

Bali status
Bali province blocks ALL Low + Medium-Low risk KBLI for PMA (island-wide, permanent) (effective 2026-05-13)Audit pending2026 overlay

Conservative posture derived from the risk tier · confidence LOW.

Dataset last updated 2026-07-26 · KBLI 2020 and KBLI 2025 reuse code numbers for different activities — cross-vintage rows are labeled, never merged silently.

Common Questions
Can foreigners operate a humanities r&d business in Indonesia?
Yes. KBLI 72202 (Penelitian dan Pengembangan Humaniora) is TERBUKA — open to 100% foreign ownership via PT PMA. No local Indonesian partner required. (Source: Perpres 10/2021 as amended by Perpres 49/2021 — the investment-list annexes predate KBLI 2025; per-code crosswalk audit in progress.)
What license is required for KBLI 72202?
KBLI 72202 sits outside the ordinary OSS-RBA risk-based licensing flow: no business-scale licensing rows for it are retrievable from OSS. Activities in this group are typically licensed under a special or sectoral regime (e.g. government affairs, financial services under OJK/BI, education or health authorities) — verify the applicable regulator case-by-case before relying on an NIB alone.
What is KBLI 72202?
KBLI 72202 is the Indonesian business classification code for "Penelitian dan Pengembangan Humaniora" (Humanities R&D). It falls under Section M of KBLI 2025, the Indonesian Standard Industrial Classification updated by BPS (Regulation 7/2025). The June 2026 KBLI 2025 transition window has closed; operators should verify the code's current OSS/NIB treatment before relying on it for licensing, reporting, or amendments.

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