Graphic Design / Visual Communication
Aktivitas Desain Grafis/komunikasi Visual
🔬 Section M — Professional, Scientific & Technical
Graphic Design / Visual Communication — providing manual or digital design services for brand identity, logos, packaging, infographics, UI/UX visual elements, environmental graphics (signage/billboards), and typography. It explicitly involves visual asset creation and excludes computer-based animation.
What You Need
This code is marked BPS_ONLY. It is a new specialized classification in KBLI 2025 and currently has no PP28/2025 licensing data mapped in the OSS system. Specific risk levels and requirements will be published when OSS fully integrates KBLI 2025.
Expected to be fully open (Terbuka) — 100% foreign ownership, as it separates pure design from restricted advertising activities.
BPS_ONLY. Newly separated for KBLI 2025. Previously lumped into broader specialized design codes, graphic and visual communication design now has its own dedicated classification.
Bali Intelligence
This code is a massive win for Bali's creative expat community. Thousands of freelance graphic designers, branding experts, and UI/UX artists operate out of cafes in Canggu and Ubud. Previously, it was legally dangerous to classify a pure design studio without falling into the heavily restricted Advertising (73100) code. KBLI 74192 provides a clean, 100% PMA-open avenue to set up a legal entity, bill international clients, and sponsor your own Investor KITAS. You don't need a physical studio; a virtual office is perfectly fine. Ensure your client contracts state 'design deliverables' rather than 'ad placements' to stay compliant.
KBLI 2025 Creative Industry: Design, Photography, Film, Gaming & Content
kita.balizero.comTKA Eligible Positions
Kepmenaker 228/2019 — Category 18: Konstruksi
Kepmen 228/2019 lists 181 TKA-eligible positions in this category. Selection optimized using ISCO classification methodology.
KEDUA Provision — Directors & Commissioners Exemption
- 62199 — Other Computer Programming (if your UI/UX design bleeds into actual app coding)
- 74209 — Photography (if you shoot your own assets for brand identities)
- 70209 — Management Consulting (to offer high-level brand strategy consulting)
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