NIB Registration in Indonesia for IT Service Companies: Your KBLI Code Changed in June 2026

An NIB costs nothing and can be issued the same day. What trips up IT service companies is not the procedure but the code underneath it. Since 15 June 2026 OSS has run on KBLI 2025, and 62019 — the code almost every Indonesian software vendor was registered under — is now 62199. This is NIB registration in Indonesia with the right number on it, checked on oss.go.id on 10 November 2026.

If your NIB was issued before June 2026, nothing has been cancelled. The system converted the code and the NIB stays valid.

The surprise comes later — when you add a line of business, register a new entity, or match your NIB to a tender requirement. The screen shows a KBLI 2025 number, people assume it is a typo, and they retype a code that no longer exists.

The IT classification codes that changed in June 2026

KBLI 2025 was issued as Statistics Indonesia Regulation No. 7 of 2025, promulgated on 18 December 2025 and replacing KBLI 2020. OSS and the ministry systems around it have applied it since 15 June 2026. The change is structural, not cosmetic: computer programming moved to a different top-level category, and nearly every five-digit code in the sector was renumbered.

One code did not map cleanly. 63122, the commercial web portal and digital platform code that marketplaces and SaaS products tended to use, was split into 33 separate KBLI 2025 codes. Do not guess at the replacement — open the conversion tool and read each candidate.

NIB registration in Indonesia, step by step

For a micro or small business registered to an individual, the whole thing can be done without an agent. This is the sequence OSS used as of 10 November 2026:

1. Create an account at oss.go.id or in the OSS Indonesia app using an active mobile number that has never been used in the system. The verification code arrives over WhatsApp.
2. Set a password of at least 8 characters containing an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a digit and a special character.
3. Fill the form exactly as printed on the Indonesian ID card. One character out of step with the civil registry is enough to fail validation.
4. Add the business profile: tax number, and the two BPJS social security numbers if you already hold them.
5. Enter your line of business as a five-digit KBLI code. Search by activity keyword, not by the code you memorised from an older document.
6. Enter land area and invested capital, then press Validasi risiko. The system decides your business scale and risk tier — you do not pick either.
7. Complete the application form, list your products and services, and tick the self-declaration on spatial-planning compliance.
8. The NIB is issued and can be printed immediately.

A company takes a different first step. A PT or CV has to be approved by the Ministry of Law first, and it is that approval number plus the corporate tax number that opens the OSS account. Notary and approval fees sit outside OSS. The NIB itself is still free.

One business entity holds exactly one NIB, and a single NIB may carry several KBLI codes.

You do not choose your risk tier

Plenty of licensing articles publish tables along the lines of "KBLI 62019 = low risk". Ignore them. OSS calculates the tier after you enter the code, the capital figure and the land area — which is why the button reads Validasi risiko, validate risk, not select risk. Two firms on the identical code can land in different tiers because their capital differs.

The legal basis is Government Regulation No. 28 of 2025, promulgated on 5 June 2025 to replace PP 5/2021; OSS dates its application to 5 October 2025. There are four tiers. Low risk needs only the NIB, the middle tiers add a Standard Certificate, and high risk requires a full licence. That gap decides how long you wait.

The NIB is issued, and you still cannot bid

An NIB gets you through the door; it is not a ticket. Selling to Indonesian government buyers also takes a supplier account on the SPSE platform with your qualification data filled in, and the electronic catalogue route works differently again.

Both of those have their own walkthroughs, on registering as a government supplier and listing on the LKPP e-catalogue. Our government IT procurement support almost always starts right here, by checking that the codes on the NIB actually match the packages the client intends to bid for.

Picking the wrong KBLI costs more than it looks

In our experience most IT providers around Sidoarjo and Surabaya genuinely need two or three codes, not ten. One Sidoarjo distributor registered eight "just in case", and one of them pulled in a certification obligation unrelated to anything they actually do.

Too few codes hurts differently. If a tender requires a KBLI missing from your NIB, you are eliminated at the administrative stage, and adding one is not an afternoon’s work. Read the scope notes on every code first. OSS itself says its conversion data is a reference, not a legal determination.

If the confusing part is not OSS but choosing codes that match the work you actually sell, start from the service list you offer today rather than the one you plan for next year. We are happy to talk it through on our IT consulting page.