REGULATION OF STATISTIC INDONESIA NO. 7 OF 2025 INDONESIAN STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION

Regulation Of Statistic Indonesia No. 7 Of 2025: Indonesian Standard Industrial Classification

Jardin Legal 01 Apr 2026 ,

Background

In December 2025, the Government issued a new Indonesian Standard Industrial Classification under Regulation of Statistics Indonesia Number 7 of 2025 (KBLI 2025), which supersedes the previous classification under Regulation Number 2 of 2020 (KBLI 2020).

KBLI 2025 updates and refines the existing classification framework and aligns it with the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) Revision 5 issued by the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD). It also requires businesses to adjust their existing KBLI codes in accordance with the updated classification.

Key Highlights and Major Updates in the New Regulation

KBLI 2025 introduces new classifications covering emerging business activities that were not previously captured under KBLI 2020, including digital intermediation services, factoryless goods production, carbon capture and storage, artificial intelligence, and cryptocurrency-related activities. These additions broaden the scope of recognized business activities and provide greater clarity for evolving sectors.

In parallel, KBLI 2025 adopts a more detailed and refined classification structure, increasing the number of categories from 21 under KBLI 2020 to 22 under KBLI 2025. While updates are introduced across most sectors, certain categories namely Category A (Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing), Category B (Mining and Quarrying), and Category F (Construction) remain largely unchanged.

The updated category in KBLI 2025 categories is set out below.

Category in KBLI 2025
Changes
A - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries
These changes aim to clarify activities and strengthen sustainability aspects.
  • Non-timber forest product collection, previously commodity-based, is now consolidated into a broader category.
  • Breeding of wild animals and plants is separated to reflect differing business characteristics and activity objects.
  • In fisheries, capture classifications are simplified by water media (marine or inland) rather than species, improving consistency and usability.
  • KBLI 2025 also introduces carbon absorption and storage activities in forest management and aquatic plant cultivation in line with global environmental priorities.
B - Mining and Quarrying
These changes reflect strengthened downstream (value-added) policies and strategic resource management.
  • Coal beneficiation now has a distinct classification code, clarifying the mining value chain.
  • Classifications for precious and non-ferrous metal ore mining have been restructured.
  • The scope of industrial and chemical mineral mining has been expanded.
  • A new specific code for rare earth metal mining underscores its growing importance for technology industries, renewable energy, and electric vehicles.
C - Industry
These changes in industrial classification reflect a major shift in production models.
  • Factoryless Goods Producers (FGP) companies that control design and ownership while outsourcing manufacturing are now classified as industrial entities based on their products rather than as traders.
  • Additionally, new commodities are explicitly included, such as liquid biofuels, solar panels and inverters, energy storage systems, medical devices (e.g., ventilators), and unmanned and spacerelated technologies, highlighting the growth of advanced, technology-driven industries.
D - Electricity, Gas, Steam/Hot Water, and Air Conditioning Supply
These changes reflect the growing development of carbon market mechanisms in Indonesia.
  • Electricity generation is now classified by renewable and nonrenewable sources, with consideration of emissions.
  • Classifications for hydrogen production and distribution have been refined.
  • New codes cover broker and agent activities in the electricity and gas sectors.
  • The sale of carbon units is now included in specific group classifications
E - Water Supply, Wastewater Management, Waste Management, and Remediation Activities
These changes simplify the structure and strengthen environmental management aspects.
  • Wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal have been restructured for clearer process delineation.
  • KBLI 2025 also introduces new codes for carbon dioxide capture and storage, radioactive waste treatment, waste-to-energy processing, and plastic material recovery.
F - Construction
These category clarifies the distinction between conventional and prefabricated construction.
  • Several civil construction scopes are restructured and consolidated for greater simplicity and operational efficiency.
  • Interior and exterior decoration are integrated into the construction finishing category.
  • A notable addition is a specific code for construction intermediation services, reflecting the growing role of professional intermediaries in construction projects.
G - Wholesale and Retail Trade
These changes in the trade sector emphasize simplification and alignment with digital business practices.
  • KBLI 2025 now distinguishes only between wholesale and retail trade.
  • Vehicle repair activities have been reclassified under other service categories.
  • Trade via digital platforms is categorized as retail trade intermediation rather than general web portal activities.
  • The removal of distinctions based on postal or internet-based sales reflects a more neutral approach to sales channels.
H - Transportation and Storage
These changes reflect as shift toward a more functional, service-oriented and future ready classification framework in the transport sector.
  • Land transport is classified by service type and distance, rather than vehicle type.
  • Space transport is distinguished from conventional air transport.
  • KBLI 2025 introduces specific codes for transport intermediation, recognizing the growing role of agents, freight forwarders, and platforms.
  • This includes intermediation services for freight, passenger transport, as well as postal and courier services.
I - Accommodation and Food and Beverage Service Activities
These changes reflect a shift toward a more detailed, activity based and digitally adaptive classification of the accommodation and food service sector.
  • Accommodation is now more specifically classified, including recognition of intermediation services such as Online Travel Agents (OTA).
  • Food and beverage services are classified based on the building/place of activity rather than business type, better reflecting actual conditions.
  • KBLI 2025 also introduces a new scope for food and beverage intermediation services.
J - Publishing, Broadcasting, and Content Production and Distribution Activities
These changes reflect a major shift in the content and creative media ecosystem.
  • KBLI 2025 focuses Category J on content and media creation, packaging, and distribution across both conventional and digital formats.
  • Previously undefined activities such as podcast production, game publishing, audio and video streaming, and on-demand distribution are now explicitly included.
  • Broadcasting is now classified based on technology rather than ownership, aligning with digitalization trends.
The inclusion of social media and news agency activities further reinforces KBLI 2025’s relevance in capturing the modern content industry landscape.
K - Telecommunicati ons, Computer Programming, Consultancy, Computing Infrastructure, and Other Information Service Activities
This category emphasizes digital technology infrastructure and services.
  • KBLI 2025 consolidates cable, wireless, and satellite telecommunications into a single group, highlighting their role as core infrastructure providers.
  • Value-added services (internet, data, IPTV) are now directly integrated into telecommunications rather than treated as supporting activities.
  • Web portals and digital platforms are excluded, as intermediation is classified by the sector served.
  • New codes for telecommunications resale and intermediation clarify the distinction between infrastructure providers and retail telecom businesses
L - Financial and Insurance Activities
These changes reflect a shift from entity-based to activity-based classification.
  • Financing companies are now divided into more specific activities, such as financial leasing and factoring.
  • Proprietary trading of financial instruments is separated into its own category, no longer grouped with other financial services.
  • In line with green and digital economy trends, KBLI 2025 introduces new codes for carbon unit trading and brokerage, as well as crypto asset-related activities.
M - Real Estate Activities
These changes reflect the growing importance of logistics and warehousing in the modern economy.
  • Residential and non-residential real estate activities are clearly separated, distinguishing between development and leasing.
  • A new scope covers the management of special economic zones and industrial estates, previously not explicitly classified.
  • New codes are introduced for warehouse leasing and self-storage facilities.
N - Professional, Scientific, and Technical Activities
These changes reflect a move toward a more structured, function based and specialized classification within professional, scientific and technical activities.
  • Various design activities are consolidated into a single specialized subcategory while preserving their distinct scopes.
  • Public relations is separated from management consultancy, reflecting its increasingly strategic role.
  • In research, humanities is grouped into a distinct category.
  • Technical testing and analysis are restructured by function, including certification, inspection, verification, and testing.
O - Administrative and Business Support Activities
This category is simplified and expanded to align with modern business practices.
  • The removal of the phrase “without option rights” streamlines terminology without altering substance.
  • KBLI 2025 introduces new groups for rental and leasing intermediation, as well as intermediation for other business support services.
  • In the labor sector, job placement is restructured to clearly distinguish between domestic, household, and seafarer placements.
P - Public Administration and Defence, and Compulsory Social Security
These changes are relatively limited and mainly focus on strengthening functions.
  • KBLI 2025 introduces a specific group for government administrative services in the environmental sector, reflecting the growing role of government in environmental management.
  • Minor refinements to titles and descriptions also improve consistency and clarity.
Q - Education
This category is restructured to improve clarity across education levels and service types.
  • Preschool and primary education are now separated into distinct groups.
  • Secondary education is expanded to include post-secondary nontertiary education.
  • KBLI 2025 also introduces new subcategories for driving schools, job training (government, private, and corporate), and professional certification activities.
R - Human Health and Social Work Activities
These changes reflect a more inclusive and functional approach.
  • KBLI 2025 updates terminology and narratives to be more humancentered and aligned with current social policy developments.
  • New codes are introduced for health service intermediation and residential care intermediation.
  • The scope of activities such as elderly housing management, orphanages, and religious fundraising is clarified to avoid classification overlap.
S - Arts, Sports, and Recreation
These changes restructure the scope to clearly distinguish between artistic creation, performing arts, and supporting activities.
  • Activities related to libraries, museums, cultural heritage, and natural conservation are separated into more specific groups.
  • Tourism attraction activities are consolidated from previously dispersed classifications.
  • Sports professions are clarified by separating independent athletes from professional referees and judges.
T - Other Service Activities
These changes help distinguish service activities from goods trading.
  • KBLI 2025 reclassifies motor vehicle repair and maintenance from the trade sector to other service categories, reflecting their serviceoriented nature.
  • Classifications for the repair of computer and communication equipment, as well as various personal services, are also restructured for greater consistency and clarity.
U - Activities of Households as Employers and Undifferentiated Goods and Services Producing Activities of Households for Own Use
These category does not change the scope of activities but improves clarity and sensitivity in terminology.
  • Changes in this category are mainly terminological but conceptually significant.
  • The term “domestic personnel” is replaced with “domestic workers” to better align with evolving labor norms and policies.
V - Activities of International Organizations and Other Extraterritorial Organizations
These category does not change the scope, only recodes its classification.
  • The structure and scope for international and extraterritorial organizations remain consistent with international standards, and are therefore maintained as in KBLI 2020.

Impact on the Business Entities

The enactment of KBLI 2025 introduces a formal obligation for business entities to align their existing business classifications with the updated framework within 6 (six) months from its effective date. This requirement reflects the Government’s intention to ensure consistency, accuracy, and alignment of business activities with the revised classification system, which now incorporates more detailed and internationally harmonized categories.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the implementation of such alignment is expected to be relatively streamlined. Based on a Joint Circular Letter issued by the Minister of Investment and Downstream Industry/Head of BKPM, the Minister of Law, and the Head of Statistics Indonesia (BPS) concerning the implementation of KBLI 2025, adjustments that only involve changes in numerical codes (without any substantive change to the scope of business activities) will be carried out automatically through the OSS system. Accordingly, in such cases, business entities are not required to amend their business licenses or articles of association, thereby minimizing administrative burden and ensuring a smooth transition to the new classification regime.

Conclusion

The introduction of KBLI 2025 brings important updates to Indonesia’s business classification framework, including the introduction of new classifications as well as refinements to existing categories, which may affect how business activities are recorded and licensed. Business entities should therefore assess whether their current KBLI codes remain aligned with the updated framework and consider whether any required adjustments may have regulatory or corporate implications. In this regard, based on a Joint Circular Letter issued by the Minister of Investment and Downstream Industry/Head of BKPM, the Minister of Law, and the Head of Statistics Indonesia (BPS), where the adjustment only involves changes in numerical codes, such alignment may be implemented automatically through the OSS system without requiring amendments to business licenses or articles of association.

Business entities are advised to closely monitor further regulatory developments and ensure timely compliance with the updated KBLI framework, including any required follow-up actions.

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