Indonesia Advisory

Previously we are talking about Bureaucracy!, we are at second issues of the paperworks needs for living and working in Indonesia. Let us continue...

DPKK Fee (Skills and Development Fund)

When a company wants to employ expatriate, they must pay USD 100 / month per expatriate, this is administered by Ministry of Labor / Manpower and have to be paid in advance for one year of total USD 1200.
DPKK Fee must be paid as part of requirements before Work Permit approval.

For Non Directors position, foreigners' expertise must be proven (in theory) that the expertise will improve Indonesian manpower development. This must be proven that the skills can not be filled by Indonesian (to avoid unemployment of Indonesian national)

PAY ATTENTION!
Deportations of foreigners is NOT UNcommon! The most reasons of deportation can be due to simple reason of abusing the work permit, eg. if the work permit says Production Director.. BUT your business card stating Managing Director, this can be REASON of deportation for abusing work permit

TA01 Recommendation
After RPTKA been approved (as in .....Part 1), the next step is applying for TA01 Recommendation to Manpower Ministry in order to get temporary residence visa and the original of this document to be used for getting what so called VITAS (in bahasa Visa Tinggal Terbatas).

The RPTKA and TA01 Recommendation is for applying the work visa, so the family members will be under the foreigners' sponsorship who is working or having the working visa. So, Any family members who intended to work, has to apply separate working visa.

Visit the Foreign Affairs Ministry for further detail on Visa requirements in Indonesia at http://www.deplu.go.id/ or check directly to the Ministry Office:

Departemen Luar Negeri Republik Indonesia
Direktorat Informasi dan Media
Jalan Pejambon No. 6
Jakarta Pusat 10110
Indonesia
Phone : (62-21) 3813453
Fax No : (62-21) 3857316
Email : infomed@deplu.go.id

Coming up next, Legal Document to Live and Work in Indonesia PART 3