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Every country has its own regulation and culture. As a foreigner who is willing to start setting up a company in a different country, a total understanding of the respective country’s law and culture is extremely needed. This is no exception for Indonesia. To legally set up a PT PMA, you should understand the process of foreign company registration in Indonesia.
A discussion with a reputable and trusted local consultant regarding the setting up of your PT PMA, the making of licenses, permits, and visas are absolutely recommended since the foreigner needs an assistant who is familiar with the local law and bureaucracy.
However, as a foreigner, you still need to understand how the entire process is to avoid fraud and mistakes during the registration process.
This article will give you illustrations of some common mistakes that many foreigners made during their company registration process in Indonesia.
No matter how good you are in business and how excellent your knowledge in law, you have to understand that every country has its own nature and culture when dealing with business and legal matters. You may read the Indonesian Company Law No. 40 the Year 2007 and try to meet every detail of it to establish your company in Indonesia, but still, you may get confused when you finally have to deal with the bureaucracy.
There are so many documents and permits that you have to prepare to register your company and making all of them yourself will be daunting tasks. Don’t risk having your application refused or delayed because of your lack of information and understanding of Indonesian Company Law.
Only for your information, you need to deal with the lowest government office (the district office to get your residence permit, personal domicile letter, and probably other documents signed by a district head) to the high-level government offices like BKPM and Ministry of Law and Human Right. Only a minor mistake due to your lack of understanding will result in your time and money being wasted for a returned or delayed registration document.
You have to make sure that the local consultant that you chose to register your PT PMA has the expertise in doing their job. Knowing whether or not an agent is professional and competent can be found by doing the following things.
When you want to establish a PT PMA in Indonesia, your field of industry and business activities must be clear. Company registration is actually a simple and easy process as long as every document needed for the registration process is processed legally and then given completely.
In Indonesia, there are certain fields of industries that are restricted for PT PMA. The list of the restricted industries and industries prohibited for foreign investment can be seen in the negative investment list.
To know further about the negative investment list, you need to consult with the local agency that will help you with the registration process.
One of the documents needed to register your PT PMA is the letter of domicile, which states the location where your PT PMA head office location is. This document is later used to create a Tax Card (NPWP) in the local taxation office.
If you are not certain about where do you actually want to run your business, you will encounter several problems in the future. First, you need to spend extra time and money because you have to change the location of your office. Second, you also need to close your NPWP of the previous office and declare a new one in the new place.
Therefore, it is really important to decide where your company head office will be in the very first place for changing the location of the company head office is both complicated and costly. Some cities in Indonesia, such as Jakarta, allow a PT PMA to have a virtual office. However, you have to consult with your consultancy agent.
The Indonesian government has really strict regulations regarding the minimum amount of capital a PT PMA must invest. This is done by the government to protect local businesses, with the hope that foreign investors cannot easily set up the PT PMA in Indonesia.
Based on the Indonesian Law, it is stated that a PT PMA must have at least Rp. 10 billion capital. Regardless of the currency rate, the government has set the amount in the dollar, which is not less than US$ 1 million.
You have to remember that when you want to set up a large enterprise in Indonesia, a minimum of US$ 1 million of capital must be met. Otherwise, a PT PMA cannot be established, because a PT PMA is considered a large enterprise.
You may start a lower-scale company (a medium-sized business) and upgrade it once you have higher capital, but upgrading your company and making changes on the company’s capital is a complicated and costly thing. So, we strongly recommend you to start your company with higher capital instead.
Once the entire foreign company registration process in Indonesia is done, a trusted agent will return all of the legal documents to you (the client).
A common trick done by the local agent is to keep all of those documents with the hope that you will use the same agent to deal with any issues that happen in the future, for example when you want to make changes to the capital or do some company restructuring.
You must realize that this is an illegal practice because as a client, you are not obliged to stick with one agent once a contract is met and fulfilled. After keeping your documents with them, the bad agent will eventually ask you to pay some amount of money in the future when you want to have your documents back.
Although it is not a common practice, unfair business happens everywhere in this world. Again, you learn how important it is to use the service of a reputable and trusted agent.
The laws in any country are so strict if it is about the tax, especially the tax paid by foreign companies that run their business in their territories. In Indonesia, you are obliged to pay taxes upon receiving the Tax Card (NPWP), regardless your company has already had activities or not.
Hire a professional accountant to deal with the reporting and make sure that you report and pay the tax regularly. Otherwise, it will call a suspicion from the tax office. Playing with the bureaucracy is something that you should avoid when making business in a foreign country.
Every country has its own law and system that every business person has to respect. Just because you think that something is not applied in your country, it does not mean that it is not important.
Every detail and information related to the registration process must be met, with no exception. Violating them may be considered an illegal act, and any illegal act will impact your business in the future.
Similar to the explanation above, every country has its distinctive business culture that makes running a business in a foreign country is a unique and special experience. You must learn Indonesian business culture if you want to run your business in Indonesia.
It will help you understand many things that may happen during your business activities in Indonesia. These include many national holidays, long and confusing bureaucracy, difficult and complex registration processes, countless document preparation, and many more.
This is not something that you can master in a night, but when you think that it is worth it to establish a PT PMA in Indonesia, you will think that understanding the local business and working culture is a great asset you need to master.
In the end, you will find it important, especially when you want to expand your business locally and hire more local people to work in your company in the future.
Throughout the years, Cekindo has assisted thousands of companies with foreign company registration in Indonesia. As part of the InCorp group in Singapore, Cekindo has a dedicated team of business incorporation specialists to ensure a hassle-free foreign company registration process in Indonesia.
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