Overview

In an effort to promote greater ease of doing business within Indonesia, particularly in terms of foreign trade activities, the Minister of Trade (“Minister”) recently issued Regulation No. 16 of 2025 on Import Policy and Provisions (“Regulation 16/2025”), which is set to enter into force on 30 August 2025.[1] This new framework will simultaneously repeal and replace the previously applicable import-policy framework of Regulation of the Minister No. 36 of 2023, which has been amended multiple times, most recently through the issuance of Regulation of the Minister No. 8 of 2024 (collectively referred to as “Regulation 36/2023”).[2]