Permenpar 6/2025 in English: how a villa business is checked and sanctioned

The 2025 regulation that replaced the 2021 tourism standards: the certificate a villa must hold, who inspects it, and what follows a failed check.

Permenpar 6/2025, the articles a villa owner meets

A villa let to tourists is a tourism business, and since October 2025 the rules on how such a business is checked and punished are in one ministerial regulation. It replaced the two 2021 regulations that most English-language guides still cite.

The standard, and the certificate that proves it

The regulation covers business standards, supervision of risk-based licensing in tourism, and administrative sanctions (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 2). Every tourism business must meet the business standard for their activity (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 3(2)), and proves it with a standard certificate due within 1 year of the business license being verified (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 5(2)) — except certain medium-low-risk activities, as the laws and regulations provide (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 5(3)). For a villa the standard is in Lampiran I. The villa standard. The homestay standard.

Who checks, and what they check

Supervision runs through the supervision subsystem of the OSS system (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 10(1)) and is routine and incidental (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 10(2)). Who does it depends on who owns the business: the Ministry of Tourism, for foreign-investment (PMA) tourism businesses outside special zones (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 7(2)(a)); the provincial tourism office, for domestic medium-high-risk businesses (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 7(4)); the regency or city tourism office, for domestic (PMDN) medium-low-risk tourism businesses (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 7(5)).

Inspectors may examine, request information, copy documents, enter the premises, photograph, record, take samples, inspect land, buildings and equipment, and stop certain violations (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 8(2)). They check the basic requirements — the spatial-use conformity (KKPR), environmental approval, and the building approval (PBG) with its certificate of function (SLF) (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 10(6)) — and the license itself: the NIB, the standard certificate and/or the permit (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 10(7)). A business must submit a report for routine supervision (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 10(3)).

The inspection has limits on both sides. Inspectors must have passed education or training for tourism-sector supervisors, shown by a certificate (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 8(4)), and supervision is limited to administrative and technical aspects of tourism, and must not obstruct the business's operations (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 9(1)-(2)). A visit that ranges beyond the license and the standard, or that shuts the business down without a sanction decision, is outside what this regulation authorizes — our reading. Sanctions, once imposed, are recorded in the OSS system (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 12(7)), so a buyer can ask the seller for the OSS history as well as the license.

That list is the buyer’s checklist too. A villa sold as “income-producing” is only as legal as its KKPR, its PBG and SLF, and its NIB under the right code — the same four things an inspector asks for. PBG and SLF. The accommodation codes.

Sanctions, step by step

Sanctions are imposed by the minister, governor, or regent or mayor, according to their authority, through OSS (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 12(2)) for not meeting the business standard, not reporting, not starting operations on schedule, operating on a license not yet effective, endangering health, safety or the environment, causing death or property loss, or breaching the basic-requirement and licensing rules (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 12(1)). They are a warning, temporary suspension of the business, and/or revocation of the license (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 12(3)), normally in stages:

Working days. The stages can be skipped where the violation directly endangers the safety and security of tourists, businesses or the public (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 12(6)).

Appeal

An appeal goes in writing, with reasons and evidence, within 7 working days of receiving the sanction decision (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 17(3)-(4)); the sanction is confirmed, reduced, increased or annulled, notified within 14 working days (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 19(2)-(3)).

Licences issued before it

Licences issued through risk-based OSS, verified and valid before the regulation can still be used (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 20); a business whose risk level changed must adjust within 1 year of promulgation (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 21). The regulation was signed on 10 October 2025 (Permenpar 6/2025, signature block) and took effect on the date it was promulgated (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 23); it replaced Permenparekraf 4/2021 on tourism business standards and Permenparekraf 8/2021 on administrative sanctions (Permenpar 6/2025 art. 22).

This is commentary on the official text, not legal advice. The supervision procedure (Lampiran II) and the forms (Lampiran III) are not reproduced here.

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