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Bali Zero
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Chat with Bali Zero on WhatsAppAfter eight articles of walls, here is some relief: in the wellness and medical-aesthetics space, Bali still has a door that's genuinely open to foreign capital. But — because this is Bali, and nothing is allowed to be simple — the open door and the closed wall sit right next to each other, separated by what looks like a hair's breadth and is in fact a chasm. The clinic is open. The beauty salon is blocked. Knowing which side of the line your business lands on is the entire game.
KBLI 86105 — Aktivitas Klinik Swasta (private clinic) covers the provision of primary and/or advanced health services — outpatient and/or inpatient care — run by private providers. It is the code for a medically-supervised operation: a clinic with doctors, a wellness-and-recovery centre with clinical oversight, a medical-aesthetics practice operating under a physician.
National: open. Bali: REGISTRABLE. Its risk class at large scale runs medium-high to high — which is exactly what you'd expect from an activity involving medical care and patient safety — and that higher risk class is precisely what lifts it clear of the May 2026 moratorium. It's also a stable, unchanged code (a direct match from KBLI 2020), so older references to 86105 are still accurate. The licensing is heavier — health-sector permits, facility standards, medical-personnel requirements — but those are the requirements that make it registrable. The friction is the feature.
This is the optimistic mirror-image of the moratorium's logic. Everywhere else in this series, "higher risk" sounds like a burden. In health, the higher risk class is the thing that keeps the door open to a foreign-owned PMA.
Now the wall, and it's a surprising one. KBLI 96220 — Aktivitas Perawatan Kecantikan dan Perawatan Kecantikan Lainnya (beauty care and other beauty treatments) covers beauty treatments not performed by a specialist physician — the work of a cosmetologist: facials, beauty-focused treatments, the classic aesthetics-salon offering. It's a brand-new 2025 code (in 2020 this was lumped into broader personal-service codes; the 2025 system breaks beauty out on its own).
National: open. Bali: BLOCKED. The mechanism is the no-large-scale one: the OSS system offers no Usaha Besar registration row for 96220, so the activity is reserved for UMKM operators, and a PT PMA — large-scale by law — has no path to register it in Bali. A foreign-owned beauty salon, day spa, or aesthetics studio operating under 96220 cannot be registered here.
So the line that decides everything is clinical vs cosmetic. Treatments under genuine medical supervision (86105) sit on the open side. Beauty treatments by a cosmetologist (96220) sit on the closed side. To the customer walking in for a "glow-up facial," the two businesses look nearly identical. To the OSS system, they are opposite verdicts.
The strategic move for a foreign investor in this space is to build the business with a genuine clinical spine and register it under 86105, rather than as a pure beauty salon under the blocked 96220. That's not a labelling trick — substance-based inspection is now the norm, and a "clinic" with no medical supervision is a 96220 wearing a lab coat. It means actually structuring around medical oversight: the right personnel, the right permits, the right facility standards. Do that, and you have one of the few foreign-friendly doors left open in Bali. Skip it and register the bare beauty-care code, and the OSS system simply won't let your PMA through.
The wellness sector, in short, rewards the operator who builds the heavier, more clinical, more regulated version of the business — and quietly shuts out the lighter cosmetic one. Same customer, same glow, completely different legal fate.
Check 86105 and 96220 side by side on the Bali Zero KBLI Navigator at balizero.com — the two-branch national-vs-Bali view shows you the clinical-vs-cosmetic line that decides whether your wellness business is an open door or a hidden wall.