Which KBLI Code Should Your Centre Register Under?

Your code describes the money, not the business

Current as of September 2026. Every regulation and classification entry below was checked against its issuing register on that date.

You are in OSS, the field wants a KBLI code, and none of the several dozen education entries says kids activity centre. The code is not a name for your business. It is the state's description of the activity that earns your money, and PP 28/2025 Pasal 210 says so almost literally: your main business activity is the one recorded in your akta and the one that is your source of income.

That definition does most of the choosing for you. If class fees pay the rent, the class is the main activity whatever else happens in the building, and if a play floor pays the rent while one class a week runs as a draw, the play floor is the main activity and the class is a supporting one.

The second thing worth knowing before you open the dropdown is how the list is read. Under Pasal 127 the identification of a business activity refers to the scope written into the KBLI entry itself, not to the entry's title. Two codes can carry nearly identical titles and quite different scope paragraphs underneath them.

So read the paragraph rather than the heading. It takes about ten minutes and it is the only part of this that is entirely under your control.

Which code fits what you actually run?

Four shapes cover most kids activity businesses, and they sit further apart in the classification than they feel from inside one. The differences below are not cosmetic, because each one carries its own risk level and its own sector permit.

A tutoring centre is 85595, private tutoring and counselling education. Its scope paragraph is unusually wide and worth reading in full, because it names playgroup facilitators, preschool facilitators and preschool tutors among the activities it covers. A school-readiness programme that never enrols a child as a pupil is tutoring rather than early childhood education, which is not where most owners expect to find it.

A subject course splits by subject, not by format. Computer and coding courses are 85592 and language courses are 85593, and running both in the same room does not merge them into one code. That is the most common reason a centre ends up carrying two.

Daycare and playgroup are no longer in the education division at all in KBLI 2025. A playgroup is 88906 and a child care centre is 88907, both under the social services group, while a private kindergarten stays in education as 85102. What separates them is the age band and the promise: 88907 runs from birth to six with the emphasis under four, 88906 covers two to six with the emphasis on three and four, and 85102 covers four to six.

A swim school, a gym, a martial arts hall or a children's yoga studio is 85510, sport and recreation training. Its scope paragraph names swimming, gymnastics, martial arts and yoga coaching directly, and it carries the limit that settles the code: this training does not produce a qualification at any level from preschool to tertiary. If what you run leads to a school level, you are somewhere else.

One more is easy to miss. If you never teach, and instead put families in touch with tutors for a fee or a commission, that is 85610, course and tutor brokering. A centre that teaches and also runs a referral service is doing two things rather than one.

Why does the risk level decide more than the code name?

Every code carries a risk level, and the risk level is what produces your paperwork. PP 28/2025 Pasal 128 sets four of them: low, medium-low, medium-high and high.

At low risk the NIB is the licence. Pasal 130 makes it both your identity as an operator and the legality of running the activity, so there is nothing further to obtain before you open the doors.

At medium-low risk you hold the NIB and a Sertifikat Standar, and what matters is what that second document actually is. Under Pasal 131 it is your own statement that you will meet the business standard, issued on the strength of the statement rather than an inspection.

That is the part owners misread as a formality. The same article says the standard has to be met while you are operating and is examined during Pengawasan, so a declaration made in an afternoon becomes a checklist somebody works through in your building later. Read the standard you are declaring against before you tick it, because it is the clearest written version of your obligations you will be handed.

At medium-high risk the order reverses. Pasal 132 has the Sertifikat Standar issued only after the authority verifies that you meet the standard, which turns an online form into a scheduled visit on a date you do not control.

Two codes that read almost identically can fall on either side of that line. Check the level attached to a code before you commit to it, not after the NIB has been issued.

How do you check what similar centres registered under?

The risk level is public before you choose. Pasal 216 requires the OSS information service to publish the KBLI arranged by risk level, so what a code will cost you in paperwork is knowable in advance rather than after the fact.

Then ask two or three centres that run what you run. A NIB is not a confidential document and most owners will read the code off it, particularly if they are not your immediate neighbours. What you are collecting is a shortlist to check, because their code is evidence about their business and not about yours.

Older centres will quote you a code that no longer exists, because the classification was reissued and the education entries moved. The reference pages on the OSS site carry the conversion from KBLI 2020 to KBLI 2025, so a code such as 85495 resolves to its current replacement, 85595, and a registration made years ago can be followed through to the entry it now sits in.

That leaves the part nobody can do for you. Open the current entry, read its scope paragraph, and ask whether it describes your week. Where two entries both fit, the tie-break is the definition in Pasal 210, which means being honest about which activity actually pays.

What happens if the code does not match what you run?

Rarely anything dramatic, and usually something stuck. A sector permit is issued against the NIB, so a mismatch tends to surface at the moment you apply for something and the office in front of you reads a code that does not describe the place they are standing in.

The formal position sits in Pasal 355. An operator that breaches the basic requirements, the business licence or a supporting permit is liable to administrative sanctions, running from a warning through temporary suspension of the activity and an administrative fine to revocation, and they are imposed on the level of compliance found during Pengawasan. Severity follows what an inspection finds rather than attaching to the paperwork error by itself.

Changing the main code afterwards is awkward for a specific reason rather than a bureaucratic one. Because the main activity is the one stated in the akta, moving it generally means going back to a notary to amend the stated purpose of the company before OSS will follow.

The cheap version of that decision is available at registration and is the one most owners skip. Pasal 210 allows supporting activities to be recorded alongside the main one, so a centre that genuinely runs classes and a play floor can register both, with the one that earns the money as the main activity. Settling that on day one costs nothing and settling it in year three costs a notary.

None of this decides whether your own arrangement is in order. That is a question for a lawyer or a licensing consultant who can see the whole picture, and it is cheaper asked before registration than after.

The part that belongs to your local office

The permit to operate as an education unit is separate from the NIB and is issued locally. That is why the honest answer to several questions in this post is a phone number rather than a paragraph.

What that looks like in practice is a published list that differs by office. The one-stop service in Kota Bogor sets out nine documents for the operating permit for a nonformal education unit, with the NIB from OSS as the first item, a stated three working days and no charge. Another kabupaten or kota publishes its own list, and the differences are large enough to change the order you do things in.

Three questions are worth putting to your Dinas Pendidikan or one-stop office before you register anything. Which KBLI code do they expect to see on the NIB for this permit, does the building approval need to be in place before the application or alongside it, and does the wording in the akta have to repeat the code or is the NIB enough?

Write down who answered and when. You will be asked to repeat it, usually by someone at a different desk.

Records are not compliance

Happy Kamper holds the enrollment and attendance records an inspection asks to see, and exports them. It does not produce a filing in an official government format, which is the distinction worth stating plainly whenever a system sits this close to an obligation.

Clean records are useful evidence for whoever handles your compliance. They are not the compliance, and no export from any system changes which code your activity falls under.

Once you are open, the operational half of this is ordinary and does not vary with the code. Scheduling and enrollment and attendance are the records asked for most often, and a centre registered as a bimbel keeps the same ones as a centre registered for child care.

If you already hold a NIB from before the classification changed, your question is the conversion rather than the choice. That is a different piece of work and it is covered separately in what the classification change did to existing codes.

This post is general information about business classification and licensing, not advice on your own registration. A professional should be consulted on your own circumstances.