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KBLI 90111

Literary Creation

Aktivitas Penciptaan Karya Sastra

🎭 Section R — Arts, Entertainment & Recreation

In Bali: a PT PMA cannot register this code

National procedure — does not apply to a PT PMA in Bali

In Bali this activity is blocked for a PT PMA under the 13 May 2026 moratorium. The national procedure below applies only to non-PMA operators.

✅Open· 100% nat'l · blocked in BaliAggregated🏝️🚫Closed in Bali (2026 moratorium)· needs review· low conf.❓Not classifiable — divergence documented

Writing Is Open Nationally—But Not to PMA Registration in Bali

This activity spans literary and technical writing nationwide, yet Bali’s PMA moratorium closes the registration route for a Bali address.

By the numbers
National PMA status
TERBUKA
Foreign-ownership ceiling
100%
Open business scales
Mikro, Kecil, Menengah, Besar
Bali status
Closed (Bali moratorium)
The activity is nationally open, but a Bali-address PMA registration is blocked by the moratorium.
What Changed

Renumbered/adjusted from KBLI 2020. From Indonesia's rich literary tradition (sastra — Pramoedya, Chairil Anwar) to digital copywriting.

What You Need

This code covers literary-creation activity (authors, writers, literary content creators). The licensing row shown here earlier was tied to a crosswalk citation our review found to be a code-number collision: an automated matcher's fuzzy text comparison confused this code's digit string with two other, similar-looking classification codes that do not actually cover literary creation, and this code has no independent basis in the pinned regulatory corpus at all, so the licensing row has been removed from this page; the correct licensing for this activity is not yet reliably defined in our verified sources. Before registering or investing, confirm the current requirements with the Bali Zero team. **Risk tier under review.** The licensing rows this code's risk tier was read from have since been set aside as unverifiable for KBLI 2025, so we cannot currently re-derive it. 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.

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  • 90113If you also work as an independent journalist
2020 → 2025
Previous codes (KBLI 2020): 90011, 90021

Regulatory Divergence

The licensing previously shown for 90111 was removed because its source could not be verified as applying to this activity. Here is what the sources actually say — with citations.

Correction note — verbatim, with source locators

KBLI 2025 code 90111 'Aktivitas Penciptaan Karya Sastra' (literary-creation activity) carries canonical status_mapping='MATCH_CON_AGGREGAZIONE', kbli_2020_source=None, pp28_sources=['90011', '90021'] (verified live against canonical this session — this citation ALREADY lists the two codes the gate independently verified as the page's true content, see below; the DEFECT is that 90111 itself has no independent existence in PP28, not that the wrong codes are named). The Lot 7 conductor gate's D0 pull agent found 10 PP28 hits for '90111' — ALL of them, on image-verification, FALSE POSITIVES produced by the ISO-9001 boilerplate matcher trap (generic 'Sistem Manajemen Mutu (ISO 9001)' text matched by a fuzzy string comparator, not a genuine code match; methodology + false-positive purge documented in evid-lot7/90111/pp28/MANUAL_HUNT_90021_NOTE.json, agent-image-verified). The TRUE finding, image-verified (lampiran 394946 printed p.498, label I.P.8): 2020 codes 90011 (row 10) AND 90021 (row 12) — both Rendah risk / NIB-only / Bupati-Walikota authority — are the codes ACTUALLY present on that page. 90111 ITSELF IS NOT PRESENT anywhere in PP28's lampiran corpus. The near-identical digit strings 90011/90021/90111 are the collision vector — the same class of defect as the program's founding 68112/68111 collision. This cure does NOT correct pp28_sources (it already happens to name the right two 2020 codes, even though citing them for 90111 specifically is the very collision this cure adjudicates) per rule #9 — no replacement value is authored. per_skala detached; the licensing regime for literary-creation activity is not retrievable/verifiable from the pinned sources as hunted. Lot 7 conductor gate (SIGNED, SECOND SIGNING, post adversarial pass), run wf_f557bfcc-249, 2026-07-19.

The detached licensing rows (source unverified for this activity)1 row

These rows were previously shown on this page and have been detached — the correction note above documents, with source locators, why their source could not be kept for the activity this page describes. They are preserved here as the audit trail of the divergence.

Mikro, Kecil, Menengah, BesarLow RiskNIBAuthority: Bupati/Walikota
BPS Peraturan 7/2025 (KBLI 2025 classification)PP 28/2025 (risk-based licensing annexes)OSS RBA ruang-lingkup — no KBLI-2025 scope retrievable via the OSS API (404)

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
Detached — source could not be verifiedDeclared gap—

The previously-served rows were removed because their source could not be verified as applying to this activity. See Regulatory Divergence above for the documented correction note.

Foreign ownership (PMA)
Perpres 10/2021, 49/2021Audit pendingKBLI 2020

The investment-list annexes predate KBLI 2025; the per-code crosswalk audit of this layer is in progress. The value shown is the annex text, disclosed with its vintage.

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 literary creation business in Indonesia?
Nationally yes — but NOT in Bali. KBLI 90111 (Aktivitas Penciptaan Karya Sastra) is TERBUKA (100% foreign ownership) at the national level, but in Bali it is blocked for a PT PMA under the 13 May 2026 moratorium. [derivation under review] Nationally TERBUKA but the Besar scale is 'Rendah' -> blocked by the Bali PMA moratorium (Gov. letter B.27.000/642, 13 May 2026: all Rendah/Menengah Rendah blocked for a Bali address). [NB-3 28 June 2026] — NOTE: the licensing rows this verdict's risk tier was read from have since been set aside as unverifiable for KBLI 2025, so the verdict cannot currently be re-derived; verdict pending re-derivation from the true risk tier (GARUDA-FILIERA). Outside Bali it is open to a PT PMA with no local 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 90111?
We cannot yet show a verified licensing basis for KBLI 90111: the licensing previously associated with this code was removed because its source could not be verified as applying to this activity. See the Regulatory Divergence section on this page for the documented sources, and verify the current OSS treatment before relying on any licensing assumption.
What is KBLI 90111?
KBLI 90111 is the Indonesian business classification code for "Aktivitas Penciptaan Karya Sastra" (Literary Creation). It falls under Section R 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.
How did KBLI 90111 change from KBLI 2020 to 2025?
KBLI 90111 was mapped from previous codes 90011, 90021 (KBLI 2020). Multiple 2020 codes were merged into this single 2025 code. The June 2026 KBLI 2025 transition window has closed. If an NIB still relies on legacy KBLI 2020 mappings, treat the migration as overdue and verify/remediate the OSS record before new license applications, amendments, LKPM, import approvals, or investor/worker sponsorship.

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