Research Agency Service Fees and Contract-Based Tariffs: PP 13/2026

Indonesia has issued a new schedule of non-tax state revenue for its national research agency. Signed on 27 March 2026, the instrument is Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 13 Tahun 2026 tentang Jenis dan Tarif atas Jenis Penerimaan Negara Bukan Pajak ("Government Regulation No. 13 of 2026 on the Types and Tariffs of Non-Tax State Revenue"), applying at Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional, the National Research and Innovation Agency. It replaces five separate government regulations inherited from the institutions that were folded into the agency, and it prices a portion of the agency's services by contract rather than by published tariff.

The Issue

The agency was assembled in 2021 from five previously independent bodies: the Ministry of Research and Technology, the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, the National Nuclear Energy Agency, the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space, and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences. Each of those bodies had carried its own revenue regulation, and after the merger the agency operated on interim Ministry of Finance rules issued in 2021 and amended in 2022, which the preamble describes as carried over from the integrated entities. Law No. 9 of 2018 on non-tax state revenue requires that revenue types and their tariffs be established by government regulation, and the preamble cites both the organisational change and the introduction of new revenue types as the reason for setting the schedule afresh.

Key Provisions

Pasal 1(1) lists eight sources of revenue at the agency: research, development, assessment, application, nuclear and space services; functional training in science, technology, research and innovation; use of facilities and infrastructure consistent with the agency's duties; education services at the nuclear technology polytechnic it operates; educational tourism services; use of the agency's research vessels; intellectual property royalties; and specialist research, nuclear, space and industrial-facilitation services delivered to a service user's specification.

The regulation then divides those eight categories across two pricing tracks. Pasal 1(2) fixes rates for the first five categories in an Annex that forms an inseparable part of the regulation. Pasal 1(3) provides that the last three categories — research vessels, intellectual property royalties, and specification-built services — are carried out on the basis of a cooperation contract. Pasal 1(4) extends contract pricing further, to assessment, surveillance and sampling work within the first category and to uses of facilities in the third category that the Annex does not list. Pasal 1(5) then states the rate for all contract-based items: the nominal value recorded in the cooperation contract itself.

Pasal 6 requires that all non-tax revenue arising at the agency be deposited into the state treasury. Pasal 7 preserves the implementing rules made under the five superseded regulations, which remain valid so far as they do not conflict with the new instrument. Pasal 8 then revokes those five regulations outright: the 2014 regulation for the research ministry, the 2018 regulation for the technology assessment agency, the 2019 regulations for the nuclear and the aeronautics agencies, and the 2021 regulation for the science institute. Pasal 9 provides that the regulation takes effect 30 days after promulgation, which followed on the day of signing.

Implications

Users of the agency's services now encounter two different pricing regimes depending on what they are buying. Listed services carry a published rate that can be checked against the Annex before an application is filed. Vessel time, licensed intellectual property, and bespoke testing or facilitation work are priced through negotiation, with the contract figure operating as the legal tariff under Pasal 1(5). The same contract mechanism reaches into the fixed-rate categories wherever a service falls outside the Annex, so the boundary between the two tracks is drawn by the Annex rather than by category alone.

The revocation in Pasal 8 also closes a transitional chapter that had run since the 2021 merger, consolidating five legacy schedules into one. Because Pasal 7 keeps the older implementing rules in force until they are replaced, operating units continue to apply existing procedures for collection and documentation. This structure, in which a government regulation sets the revenue types while ministerial or agency instruments carry the operating detail, mirrors the pattern seen in the revenue schedule set for the Ministry of Law and in the licensing-fee arrangements that accompany risk-based business licensing in the energy sector.

Regulatory Context

Non-tax state revenue has become a recurring subject of government regulation in 2026, alongside adjustments to tax instruments such as the transitional rules for final income tax. For the research agency, the schedule covers activity that ranges from nuclear services and satellite work to polytechnic tuition and educational tourism, reflecting the breadth of the institutions the agency absorbed. The Annex remains the operative document for anyone calculating a specific fee.

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