For sectors closed or restricted to foreign ownership, a local PT company, formed through an Indonesian nominee shareholder arrangement, is the practical route to market. We structure this properly and legally, with the safeguards your business needs.
A Local PT is Indonesia's standard domestic company structure, open only to Indonesian citizens or Indonesian legal entities as shareholders. A PT PMA is the structure required the moment any foreign shareholding enters the picture, and it's classified that way by BKPM and the OSS licensing system regardless of how small the foreign stake is. A Local PT carries no PMA-style national minimum capital; a PT PMA currently requires IDR 2.5 billion in paid-up capital and a total investment plan of at least IDR 10 billion per business classification.
Source: Ministry of Investment / BKPM, Online Single Submission (OSS) system, BKPM Regulation No. 5 of 2025. Current as of 2026; capital thresholds are set by BKPM and can change.
A local PT company can't carry any foreign shareholding, which is why nominee structures come up so often in this conversation, and why they need to be documented properly rather than handled on a handshake. We build the legal protections into the arrangement from the start, not as an afterthought once the company is already operating.