About us — and how to check that we are who we say
Before a first order you are asked to send a deposit to a factory you have never seen, in a country whose registers you have never read. Three questions follow from that, and only one of them is about charcoal. This page answers the first — whether there is a registered manufacturer behind this domain — in a form you can check yourself, in two public registries, without asking us for anything. The same four checks work on any Indonesian supplier you are considering, including the one you buy from now.
§1 · Who we are
PT Bakhoor Charcoal Indonesia manufactures coconut shell charcoal for bakhoor under client brands, from a factory in Magelang, Central Java, established in 2015. One product category, one way of selling it: bakhoor-grade charcoal, made to your specification, shipped under your label and nobody else’s, at the scale set out on the commercial page. That is the whole of what this page claims about us. What is in the factory, and who will answer your enquiry, are separate questions with separate answers — §5.
§2 · Our registration
A trading house and a factory can have identical websites. They cannot have the same business registration code.
Every Indonesian business holds an NIB, a thirteen-digit business identification number issued through the OSS system, and every NIB carries KBLI codes saying what that business is licensed to do. A charcoal manufacturer holds a manufacturing code. A charcoal trader holds a wholesale one. That distinction is public, it is the cleanest factory-or-broker test available to you, and it is indifferent to anything either of us writes on a website.
Ours: NIB 8120117132861, KBLI 20115.
In plain words, that KBLI covers the manufacture of basic organic chemicals from wood and plant material, which is where charcoal sits in the Indonesian classification. It is a production code and not a trading one. We paraphrase it rather than quote it, because the wording of the title belongs to the register rather than to us, and step three below is how you read it there.
§3 · Check it yourself
Four steps. None of them needs anything from us, none takes longer than the enquiry you were about to send, and all four work on any Indonesian supplier.
- Look the company up by name. The Ministry of Law’s company registry, AHU, lists Indonesian limited companies — a PT — by legal name. Confirm that what it returns matches the name on the quotation and on the invoice you are being asked to pay, word for word. A quotation from one entity and an invoice from another is where a transaction stops, not where it gets clarified.
- Confirm the NIB on OSS. The OSS system issued the number and is where it is looked up. Check that the NIB belongs to the company you have been dealing with, and that the codes listed against it include the one in §2.
- Read the KBLI, not just the NIB. An NIB says a business exists. The codes attached to it say what kind, and you can read that off the digits: a code beginning 10 to 33 sits in manufacturing, and one beginning 45 to 47 sits in wholesale and retail trade. Ours is in the manufacturing range, which you can see for yourself from the code in §2 rather than take from us. A charcoal trader typically holds a wholesale fuel code and a manufacturer holds a production code — general guidance rather than a test that never fails, because a business can hold several codes and some hold both. What you are looking for is a manufacturing code that covers what they claim to make.
- Pay only into an account in the company’s own name. When you send money, the receiving account must be in the name of the PT you looked up in step one. Not a personal account, not a third party in another country, not a name that differs from the invoice by a word. We publish no bank details on this site, ours or anyone else’s; account details reach you on the proforma invoice, and the name on them is the name you already checked. This step is our advice rather than a rule we can point you to — what this site claims, and what it does not, is in the disclaimer.
The fourth step is the one that prevents the most losses, and it costs us nothing to say. That is roughly the test for whether a supplier’s about page was written for you or for them.
§4 · Documents available on request
Available on request: a certificate of analysis carrying its report number, its test method and the laboratory that issued it; an MSDS; a recent export declaration, the PEB, with commercial values redacted; and a bill of lading specimen. Available means we send them when you ask. It does not mean they are published here, and we do not describe this product as certified — a document is named together with its issuer and its date, or it is not named at all.
The figures those documents carry are published in full, each with its basis and its method, on the specification page. The rules the whole site is built to, including that one, are on the verification policy.
§5 · Where to go next
Who you are dealing with is a different question from whether the company is registered, and it has a page of its own: Mohamed Noor, Director, who answers enquiries himself, signs off specifications and oversees production.
Whether there is a factory behind the registration is a third question, and the honest answer is that you should go and look — in person or on a video call. Where the factory is and what it produces carries a checklist of what to look at when you do, which works on any charcoal factory and not only on ours.
Reviewed by Mohamed Noor, Director —
§6 · What supports this page
Two of the rows below are the register’s and the rest are ours. The last two are the ones to read first if you are about to move money.
| Claim | What supports it | How we state it |
|---|---|---|
| The NIB and the KBLI in §2 are ours and are as stated. | Our own registration, issued through OSS, where both can be looked up against the company name. | Stated as fact, with both numbers published so that you can check them rather than take them from us. |
| Our KBLI is a manufacturing code covering charcoal, not a trading code. | The published classification, read against what the factory makes. | Stated, and worth confirming against the title the register publishes rather than against our paraphrase of it. That is step three. |
| The first digits of a KBLI place it in a division, so a manufacturing code and a trade code can be told apart on sight. | How the classification is structured: it follows the international standard, in which manufacturing and trade are separate divisions. | Stated as fact. It is what makes step three something you can run on any supplier rather than something you have to look up each time. |
| A charcoal trader typically holds a wholesale code rather than a manufacturing one. | What each kind of business is licensed to do, and therefore which code it needs to hold. | Stated as general guidance. A strong tell rather than a test that never fails — a business can hold several codes, and some hold both. |
| Payment should go only to an account in the company’s own name. | Our advice, from how this kind of loss actually happens rather than from a rule we can point you to. | Our advice. We are not your bank and not your lawyer, and it is the one line here we would keep if we had to delete the rest. |
| The documents in §4 are available on request. | Our own document pack. | Stated as fact. Available, never certified — that word needs an issuer and a date. |
What this page does not publish: bank details, ours or anyone else’s. Not an account number, not a bank name, not a branch. A website is not where those belong, and a supplier who puts them on one has told you something about how they handle the rest of your transaction.
§7 · What to do with this
Run §3 before you send anything, and run it on us as readily as on the supplier you buy from now — a page inviting you to check it is worth nothing if the invitation is where it ends. Both registries are free and neither asks us for permission. If what they say matches what we have said they say, the next useful thing is charcoal you can burn beside the charcoal you already have.
Request the 1 kg sample, and ask for the registration documents while it is in transit