How to check that a PT is registered

1. Ask for three documents at once: the deed of establishment, the ministerial decision approving the company as a legal entity, and the NIB. If they are genuine, all three carry the same name and address.
2. Match the name on the approval against the name used in the offer, legal form included. “PT Maju Jaya” and “Maju Jaya” are two different things in law.
3. Check the number and date of that decision in the AHU system. Changes of articles, officers and address are filed there too, so the founding deed alone need not describe the present.
4. Check the NIB in OSS. It belongs to one business and states which activities it may carry out, by the KBLI codes chosen.
5. Match the officers named in the latest deed against whoever signs the contract. What binds the company is its board as the deed has it, not whoever holds the stamp.

• The name is found and its status is legal entity: the company exists. That is where the check starts, not where it ends.
• The name is not found: it may not be incorporated, it may have been renamed, or it may be spelled differently. Nothing but documents separates those three.
• The name is found but the address, the officers or the activities differ from what was offered. This is the commonest outcome and the one most often skipped.
• There is a notice of dissolution or liquidation: the entity is still on record, but its powers reach no further than winding up.

• Registered does not mean solvent. Registration says nothing about a company’s finances.
• Registered does not mean licensed for what is being offered: the business licence and the sector permits stand on their own.
• Registered does not mean the person contacting you represents that company. A genuine company name can be used by somebody with no authority to use it.
• Registration data describes the state at the last filing, not today.

If the documents are missing or do not match, hold the payment and ask for certified copies first; a notary can verify the deed and the approval for you. If what is being offered is investment, lending, pawnbroking or insurance, the check stops here and continues in the register of illegal operations the authority publishes.

Every company profile here states its legal form and shows the official notices that concern it — bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation — where there are any. Search the name in the field at the top of this page; what we show is a record, not a substitute for the official document.

• Law 40/2007 on Limited Liability Companies, as amended by Law 6/2023 — article 7(4) on when legal personality is acquired, and article 29 on the company register
• Government Regulation 8/2021 on company capital and the registration of incorporation, changes and dissolution
• Government Regulation 5/2021 on risk-based business licensing, for the NIB and the licence itself

A summary of the rules in force, not legal advice. Rules and thresholds change — check with the relevant authority before you register.

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