Prohibited businesses in Indonesia

Some types of businesses and services are not eligible to use SHOPLINE Payments. To determine your eligibility, please review the list of prohibited business types for Malaysia.

* SHOPLINE doesn’t guarantee the list is most correct, complete, and up-to-date, as legislation may change from time to time.

Prohibited for all transaction types

• Infringement of Intellectual Property 
  • Intellectual property or proprietary rights infringement: Sales, distribution, or access to counterfeit music, movies, software, or other licensed materials without the appropriate authorization from the rights holder; any product or service that directly infringes or facilitates infringement upon the trademark, patent, copyright, trade secrets, or proprietary or privacy rights of any third party
  • Counterfeit or unauthorized goods: Unauthorized sale or resale of brand name or designer products or services; sale of goods or services that are illegally imported or exported
• Import of prohibited and restricted Goods to Indonesia* 
  • Printing Materials: Books, magazines, newspaper and similar materials, leafter, brochures that are printed in the Indonesian language, dialects in Indonesia or Chinese; offset printout goods made of paper for cigarette packaging or drugs packaging in the Indonesian language or foreign        
  • Certain chemicals: Derivatives products that contains Halogen substitute and its salt, pesticide, polimer etilena/stirena/vinyl chloride  
  • Used Clothes: Excluding personal hand carry clothes 
• Export of prohibited and restricted Goods from Indonesia
  • Agriculture, Forestry, fishery and maritime, industrial and mining products: Natural rubber technical specification (TSNR) or Indonesian Standard Rubber (SRI) that does not satisfy the Indonesian National Standard (SNI); Natural rubber in other form other than Smoked Sheet and TSNR (SIR); certain timber and rattan products; certain fish (Scleropages Formosus and Scleropages Jardinii, Botia Macracantha, Cheilinus Undulatus Ruppell, Anguilla spp, penaeus monodon, penaeus merguiensis, penaeus japonicus, Macrobrachium rosenbergii); ferrous and residual scrap; iron or steel remelted ingots; tin ore, tin slag, tailing, precious stone excluding diamonds and semi precious stone, precious stone or semi synthetic precious stone 
  • Endangered species listed on CITES: Mammals (primates, whales, dolphins, porpoises, elephants, rhinoceros, tigers, honey bear, skunk, porcupine, Orangutan Blood, Sumatra goat), aves (Eagle, cockatoo, parrot, cassowary, Cendrawasih, etc), reptile (turtle, snake, crocodiles, monitor lizards; crocodile’s bile, genitals, teeth and blood), insects (certain butterfly), fish (Red Arwana, Coelacanth, Belida, Sentani Shark, Sentani Stingray, cave wader, etc), bivalvia (coconut crab, cassis cornuta, giant kima) orchidaceae, nephentaceae and palmae (certain orchids and palm trees), dipterocarpaceae (Tengkawang plants and seeds), rafflesiaceae  
  • Cultural heritage: Artifacts, cultural heritage building/structure that are older than 50 years or that represent a certain era that are at least 50 years old and has a special meaning for history, science, education, religion and/or culture which has high cultural values for strengthening national identity
  • Printing Materials: Books, magazines, news paper and similar materials, leafter, brochures that are printed in the Indonesian language, dialects in Indonesia or Chinese; offset printout goods made of paper for cigarette packaging or drugs packaging in the Indonesian language or foreign        
• Goods and services that violates Legislation 
  • Gambling: Lotteries; bidding fee auctions; sports forecasting or odds making; sweepstakes; games of chance (roulette, craps, slot machine and alike); casino games (keno, pai gow poker, slots, black jack (21), poker and alike)
  • Adult content and services: Pornography and other obscene materials (including literature, imagery and other media); sexually oriented toys or products; sites offering any sexually-related services such as prostitution, escorts, pay-per view, adult live chat features, mail-order brides, explicit dating sites 
  • Firearms and explosives materials: The sale, distribution, import, export of firearms, its ammunitions and explosives materials  
  • Psychotropic and recreational drugs: Unlawful sales, distribution, production, import and export of Category 1 drugs (Papaver Somniferum L, raw opium, cooked opium, cocca plants, cocca leaves, raw cocaine, cocaine, cannabis sativa, methamphetamine, and alike); Category 2 drugs (alphacetylmethadol, betamethadol, dextromoramide, hydromorphone, trimeperidine, and alike); Category 3 drugs  (Acetyldihydrocodeine, ethylmorphine, propiram, and alike); drugs precursors 
  • Virtual currency: Virtual currency that can be monetized, resold, or converted to physical or digital products and services or otherwise exit the virtual world (e.g., Bitcoin); sale of stored value or credits maintained, accepted and issued by anyone other than the seller, unless in accordance with any applicable law or regulation or rule of authorized regulatory body

Restricted businesses (License required or is subject to local acquirer/payment channel requirements)

• Alcoholic Beverages
  • License(s) from the relevant authority is required. (For example: Surat Izin Usaha Perdagangan - Minuman Beralkohol / Alcoholic-Beverage Trading License)
  • Class A (beer, shandy, ale, stout and alike), Class B (wine, champagne, sake, soju and alike) and Class C (brandy, vodka, liqueur, whiskies, tequila, cognac, arrack and alike)