Compliance & Licensing
Licensing, permits and regulatory compliance for children's education businesses in Indonesia. What each permit covers, which agency issues it, and what inspectors actually check.
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Writing a Pollution Closure Policy for a Daycare or Tutoring Centre in Indonesia
No Indonesian rule closes a childcare or tutoring centre at any air quality reading. The ISPU regulation sets the categories and puts the response duty on government, so your threshold, your fee treatment and your parent notice are yours to write, and they have to exist before the haze does.
What Your Centre Must Delete When a Child Leaves, and When
Delete a child's record once the purpose you collected it for has ended, once a parent withdraws consent, or whenever a parent asks, then tell them it is done. UU 27/2022 sets no number of years. It makes you declare your own retention period at the moment you ask for consent.
Does Your Daycare or Activity Centre Need a Halal Certificate by October 2026?
A daycare or activity centre that includes food in what parents pay for is inside PP 42/2024 Pasal 2 ayat (1), and Pasal 160 ayat (2) runs the micro and small business window to 17 October 2026, so the obligation bites on 18 October. For most centres the route is free, self declared, and capped at ten days of accompaniment.
KBLI 2025: The Business Code Your Daycare or Course Centre Now Sits Under
Peraturan BPS No. 7 Tahun 2025 revoked KBLI 2020, so the codes 85133 and 85134 that a playgroup and a daycare centre used no longer exist. They are now 88906 and 88907, outside education. OSS and AHU applied KBLI 2025 on 15 June 2026 and converted most codes automatically, but a code that splits must be chosen by hand.
TPPK Is Gone: What Replaced It, and Whether It Covers Your PAUD
No. Permendikdasmen 6/2026, promulgated on 9 January 2026, revoked Permendikbudristek 46/2023 and ended the term of every TPPK at Pasal 43. It replaces them with duties carried by the head of school and a Pokja at regency or city level. Its definition of Sekolah covers formal PAUD only.
PAUD Accreditation: Who Must Apply, and What BAN-PDM Checks
Accreditation is compulsory. Under Permendikbudristek 38/2023, a new PAUD unit must apply within two years of receiving its izin pendirian, and a unit already past that mark with no status must apply too. BAN-PDM grants terakreditasi A, B or C for five years, or tidak terakreditasi.
BOP PAUD 2026: Who Qualifies, and What the Money Cannot Buy
Only if your centre clears five conditions in Pasal 5 of Permendikdasmen Nomor 8 Tahun 2026: an NPSN in Dapodik, Dapodik updated by 31 August of the preceding year, a recorded education licence, a bank account in the centre's name, and not being a satuan PAUD kerja sama.
How to Keep Your Daycare Audit-Ready for Dinas Pendidikan Visits
Dinas Pendidikan inspectors typically ask for enrollment records, daily attendance for the current academic year, child-to-staff ratio documentation, curriculum alignment with the current national PAUD standards, and operational permits. A daycare stays audit-ready by keeping these records complete, current, and exportable at all times, which digital systems handle automatically.
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