Overview

During the administration of President Joko Widodo, one of the government’s top priorities to date has been to increase the ease of doing business within Indonesia, which, it is hoped, will attract foreign investors. As a result, Indonesia’s ranking on the World Bank’s 2018 Ease of Doing Business Index showed a marked improvement from 91^st to 72^nd place out of the total 190 countries.[1] Moreover, in recent months, the government has also introduced the so-called Online Single Submission (“OSS”) system, which is currently in the process of transforming the face of Indonesia’s licensing bureaucracy.