GOVERNMENT MOVES TO LOOSEN EXPATRIATE PERMIT (Indonesia)

Author: Ichsan Montang (co-author)

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Publisher: Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Journal / Book: NO&T Asia Legal Review No.1 (June, 2018)

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Background
As part of President Joko Widodo’s administration’s efforts to attract foreign investors to Indonesia, the Government has taken an initiative to simplify the licensing requirement for Indonesian companies to employ expatriates. On 29 March 2018, the Government has issued the Presidential Regulation No.20 of 2008 on Utilization of Expatriates (PR 20/2018), which will come into force on 29 June 2018.

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