Is your business line still open to foreign investment in Bali?

100% open to foreign investment. The usual PMA capital floor still applies.

Medium-high at PMA scale. The standard certificate is verified by regional government, not merely self-declared.

The whole 56100 code series sits on the list under review for closure to new foreign investment in Bali.

Not on any closed list. But see the Bali note below — Bali is where the problem is.

Low to medium-low, never higher.

Precisely because its risk tier is low, a pure café is blocked in Bali today: the licensing system refuses low and medium-low risk activities for PMA entities domiciled in Bali. The same venue registered as a restaurant currently still passes.

100% open. Non-star and melati accommodation is reserved for micro-small businesses and cooperatives — that is a different track.

Medium-low if the building floor area is up to 6,000 m²; medium-high above that, and above the threshold verification is done by the ministry or the governor.

There is no formal moratorium we can confirm is in force. What circulates widely as the 'Bali hotel moratorium' was a 2024 proposal the governor publicly rejected, signalling a control regulation instead. Whether that control regulation was ever enacted, we cannot confirm. The building must sit in a tourism zone, and in Bali this zoning is checked earlier in practice than the national sequence suggests.

Genuinely unsettled. Some advisers treat the villa code as reserved for micro-small businesses and closed to PMA; others show PMA routinely holding villa licences in practice, citing the system's adjustment to the new numbering as the source of the confusion. We will not represent this as clean to you. Case-specific confirmation is needed before you commit.

The risk tier is not the hard part. The building and zoning chain is what is heavy.

Two things running on different clocks. First, provincial rules prohibit using another person as nominal landholder, with administrative sanctions — and the same prohibition already exists nationally. Second, properties without an NIB and tourism permit face removal from online booking platforms, with permanent blocking from August 2026. Licensing compliance and platform compliance must be tracked separately.

Closed to foreign nationals. A pondok wisata is defined as a small, limited-bedroom home occupied by its own owner. Legacy PT PMAs still holding this code are treated as non-compliant.

Not relevant for PMA — eligibility is the barrier, not the risk tier.

Working around this via a nominee breaches national rules and Bali provincial rules at the same time.

Not specifically restricted. The real gates are the alcohol permits, not the ownership.

Sources contradict each other on both codes — some say medium-low, some medium-high. We will not commit to a processing time before the tier is confirmed directly in the licensing system at filing.

A beach club has no dedicated code; it is registered as a combination of several codes, and each code adds a licence chain that can hold up the opening. There is also a provincial regulation on alcohol distribution control that we confirmed exists, but whose current status we could not confirm.

Ownership is not restricted. The issue is the boundary with medical practice, not who owns it.

The code itself is settled. What is not settled is which authority governs it.

We found no Bali-specific restriction for this line.

A PT PMA may only operate a klinik utama (advanced/specialist), not a klinik pratama — the latter is reserved for smaller local operators. Some health sub-sectors also cap foreign ownership at a set percentage; the exact figure for klinik utama we could not pin down, so confirm before any ownership commitment.

Medium-high, for both pratama and utama scope.

There is a health special economic zone in Sanur with materially lighter rules: foreign medical professionals get renewable five-year practice permits, building approval is not required by local government, and there is a special access route for medications not yet approved domestically. These privileges attach to the zone — your company must actually be sited and licensed inside its boundary. Being 'in Bali' or doing 'medical tourism' is not enough.

Cited as open to PMA by a single practitioner source, not cross-checked. Treat as unconfirmed.

Medium-low — NIB plus a self-declared standard certificate.

Fitness centres appear on the Bali list under review for closure. Note that the list uses slightly different numbering from the operating code — make sure you do not file under the wrong one.

Open via a foreign-invested construction company or a foreign construction representative office. The ownership percentage cap per sub-field we could not confirm.

Medium to medium-high. The business certification requirement pushes it upward in practice, whatever the formal label.

We found no Bali-specific restriction for this line.

Generally 100% open. But see the Bali note — this code is the most closure-exposed of any in this list.

Low to medium-low at the NIB gate. That is misleading: the building, environmental and pre-sale chain is heavy regardless of the formal label.

The most exposed code in this entire list. On top of that there are three Bali-specific layers: restrictions on converting productive agricultural land to hotel, villa or restaurant use; a building height cap of about 15 metres — roughly four to five floors — under pressure for revision but not yet repealed; and a mandatory green building standard with document verification by certified experts.

Foreign ownership eligibility for the tourism activity we could not confirm. What is definitely different is the vessel: the cabotage principle restricts ownership and flagging of domestic sea-transport vessels to Indonesian entities. A PMA company can likely run the tourism business, but the vessel may need a separate ownership or charter-in structure.

The base risk tier is unconfirmed. Whatever it is, the vessel-safety layer makes it heavy.

We found no Bali-specific marine tourism regulation. For fixed-site diving and vessel mooring, coastal zoning is likely relevant and needs separate research. This is the thinnest-sourced line on this whole page, and we say so plainly.

Self-drive is generally open. With-driver is unconfirmed — land transport services are traditionally more restricted, so confirm first.

Two very different things. Self-drive: low, NIB is enough. With driver: medium-high, NIB plus a verified standard certificate.

Self-drive rental is on the Bali list under review for closure. With-driver is not on that list.

Foreign ownership eligibility we could not confirm on this pass.

Sources conflict between high and low. The presence of a ministry-verified licensing step indicates this is not a plain self-declaration — plan it as a heavy process until the tier is confirmed directly in the system.

We found no Bali-specific rule for this line.

Generally open — but the parent code is on the Bali closure-review list, and given how common this structure is in Bali tourism, that is a real regulatory risk.

Conflicting. The formal gate reads as low and self-declared, but the underlying business-standard assessment is substantive — facilities, human resources, production and management are all reviewed. Risk tier is not the same as difficulty.

The parent code is on the Bali closure-review list.

100% open for non-formal education, and this is confirmed.

This sector is expressly carved out of the risk-tier gate. The licensing system issues only the NIB; the real operating permit comes from local government, through a separate process.

We found no Bali-specific rule for this line.

Most likely fully closed to foreign investment — the closed-sector framework ties private security to national defence and security strategic interest. One source suggests PMA may be possible via a principle permit, but that reads as outdated boilerplate. We conclude closed, and state the conflict openly. The realistic route is a 100% local structure, or an adjacent consultancy code.

Not confirmed with a source, but the presence of a government approval gate means this is not a self-declare sector.

We found no Bali-specific rule for this line.

General wholesale is largely open, with the usual PMA capital floor. Alcohol trading has tighter practical norms — unconfirmed.

Baseline wholesale: low, the NIB alone is enough. It escalates fast once the goods are regulated — alcohol, pharmaceuticals, hazardous materials.

We found no Bali-specific rule for this line. But remember: low-risk activities for Bali-domiciled PMA are currently blocked in the system — and general trade is precisely low-risk.

Closed to new foreign investment in Bali. This is the only code from the proposal list whose closure was actually approved — the others remain under review.

Not relevant in Bali while the code is closed.

Closed. Not pending, not under review — closure was approved in early 2026.