MTPI Flags Slow Licensing Services at BKPM - Rmol.id
The slow processing of licensing applications at the Deputy for Investment Service and Hilirisasi of the Ministry of Investment and Hilirisasi/Bad an Koordinasi Penanaman Modal (BKPM) has been highlighted by MTPI (Masyarakat Transparansi Perizinan Indonesia).
Although BKPM has prepared the OSS system designed to make licensing easier, more efficient and straightforward, in practice the processing of business licences can take tens of days, weeks to months, even though the evaluation of documents has been approved by the technical ministries.
“Different Deputies have different policies and different timelines for completing licences. If the Deputy for Investment Service slows the approval process for licensing that piles up in his office, this is an alarm bell that investment growth in Indonesia will not meet the targets expected by the Prabowo-Gibran administration,” said MTPI’s Deputy Coordinator, Firman Mulyadi, on Friday, 6 March 2026.
The Deputy Coordinator of MTPI, Firman Mulyadi, also made the remark on Friday, 6 March 2026.
Moreover, the current global geopolitical situation is highly prone to affecting Indonesia, even though there is an OSS system designed specifically to streamline the licensing process and its resolution.
In fact, licensing processes today can take tens of days, several weeks and can extend to months if documents are left unattended and not checked, even though the evaluation of documents has been carried out by the technical ministries and should be issued immediately.
The technical ministries that currently delegate authority include the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning / National Land Agency (ATR/BPN), and the Ministry of Forestry.
Firman urged the Minister of Investment and Hilirisasi to evaluate Andi Maulana, the Deputy for Investment Licensing Services, who is slow and bureaucratic in completing various licences from the various technical ministries that have delegated their authority to BKPM, because this is poor conduct and will tarnish the leadership of the Minister of Investment.
“If the service is slow and the Deputy is unable to work, they should be replaced immediately and/or authority returned to the technical ministries to issue licences again in accordance with the powers set out in the law, and there is no need to delegate authority to BKPM any further, because this merely lengthens time and the chain of bureaucracy, which should be handled more simply and straightforwardly by the concerned technical ministries according to the licensing,” said Firman Mulyadi, who is also practising as an advocate.