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Best Recruitment Agencies in Indonesia (2026)

How we compared the eight agencies

Six questions, each answered from the agency’s own pages. We set the criterion and the ranking.

01

Can it employ the hire?

Without an Indonesian entity, someone has to employ the person you choose under Indonesian law. We record whether each agency describes doing it.

02

What comes with the hire?

Workspace, a managed laptop, benefits above the statutory floor and HR support after the start date. We record what each agency’s own pages describe.

03

Is the fee published?

Two of the eight publish a recruitment fee. Where a fee is not published we say so, and we do not estimate it.

04

Depth in Indonesia

Years in Jakarta, offices and group network, taken from each agency’s own description of itself.

05

Where it is the better choice

Every entry names the mandates where that agency is a stronger fit than MixWork, from C-suite search to temporary staffing.

06

What we did not judge

Service quality, consultant quality and client satisfaction. We used no review-site ratings, testimonials or complaints about any agency.

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By the MixWork Team · Facts read from each agency’s own pages, October 2026 · MixWork is one of the eight; see the disclosure

Key takeaways

• The right agency depends on the mandate. For a company outsourcing a team to Indonesia that also needs the people recruited, we rank MixWork first: one partner covers recruitment, employment through MixWork EOR, workspace, managed IT and benefits.

• For a C-suite, country-manager or board search, an executive search practice is the better choice: Monroe Consulting Group, Michael Page or Robert Walters.

• Of the pages we could read, two (MixWork and Glints TalentHub) describe the full set of services around the hire. The others describe recruitment or staffing, and some add payroll or employer-of-record services.

• Only two publish a recruitment fee: MixWork from 10% of first-year salary, success-based, and Glints TalentHub at 18% on its full-suite plan. The other six do not publish a fee.

• For temporary, contract or volume staffing, PERSOL and Adecco offer models MixWork does not. Every third-party fact is linked to the agency page it came from.

The right recruitment agency in Indonesia depends on the mandate. A C-suite search, a pool of temporary staff and a permanent team that has to be found, employed, housed and equipped need different agencies. This page compares eight agencies that place professionals in Indonesia, on what each one’s own pages say it does, and says which fits which mandate.

MixWork is one of the eight. We rank ourselves first for one mandate: a company outsourcing a team to Indonesia that also needs the people recruited. For C-suite search and temporary staffing, we point you to the agencies that are better placed.

Which agency fits which mandate

Your mandateStart with
Outsourcing a team to Indonesia, with the recruitment includedMixWork
A C-suite, country-manager or board searchMonroe Consulting Group, Michael Page, Robert Walters
Specialist recruitment across eight functional areasRobert Walters
Temporary, contract or volume staffingPERSOL, Adecco
One integrated provider across several countriesGlints TalentHub
A Japan-linked employer, or one already in the JAC networkJAC Recruitment

The eight agencies at a glance

Order is our ranking on the criterion below. Positions 2 to 8 are grouped by the mandate each agency fits best, not by quality.

AgencyBest forCan it employ your hire?Published recruitment fee
1. MixWork (this site)Outsourcing a team to Indonesia, recruitment includedYes, through MixWork EOR, from USD 249 per employee per monthFrom 10% of first-year salary, success-based
2. Robert Walters IndonesiaSpecialist recruitment across eight functional areasNot found on the pages we could read*Not published
3. Michael Page IndonesiaBreadth of sector desks, executive and board searchNot found; its staffing services supply temporary and contract workersNot published
4. Monroe Consulting Group IndonesiaBoutique executive search in JakartaLists Payroll and EOR services; its Indonesia page describes payroll processingNot published
5. JAC Recruitment IndonesiaEmployers connected to a Japan-headquartered networkYes, through JAC Outsourcing; price not publishedNot published
6. PERSOL IndonesiaPermanent, contract and temporary staffingNot found; supplies temporary and contract staffNot published
7. Glints TalentHubOne integrated provider across several countriesYes, from SGD 399 per employee per month; final rate varies by country18% of first-year salary, one-time, full-suite plan
8. Adecco IndonesiaTemporary staffing, payrolling and outsourcing at volumeNot found; offers payrolling for a contracted workforceNot published

*Robert Walters’ outsourcing and offshoring service pages could not be read on 3 October 2026; they may describe services not recorded here. "Not published" and "Not found" mean the item was not on the agency’s public pages when we read them; they are not statements that the agency does not offer it.

What each provider covers beyond the shortlist

Of the pages we could read, two describe the full set around the hire: MixWork and Glints TalentHub. Facts read from each agency’s own pages on 3 October 2026.

AgencyRecruitmentEmploys your hireWorkspaceIT and devicesBenefits above statutoryHR support after the start
MixWorkYesYes, MixWork EORYes, MixWork Spaces in our own Jakarta officeYes, MixWork Managed ITYes, MixWork Flex BenefitsYes, Total Care 360 included
Robert WaltersYesNot confirmed*Not confirmed*Not confirmed*Not confirmed*Not confirmed*
Michael PageYesNot found as EOR; offers temporary and contract staffingNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedPost-placement follow-up
MonroeYesLists Payroll and EOR services; its Indonesia page describes payroll processingNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedOnboarding and offboarding administration
JACYesYes, JAC OutsourcingNot publishedNot publishedStatutory only describedHR administration for EOR hires
PERSOLYesNot found as EOR; offers temporary and contract staffingNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedNot published
Glints TalentHubYesYes, EORYes, Glints Workspace (Jakarta, Batam)Yes, Glints ITYes, Glints BenefitsYes, ongoing HR support
AdeccoYesNot found as EOR; offers payrolling and temporary staffingNot publishedNot publishedNot publishedFor payrolled and temporary workers

*Not confirmed: Robert Walters’ outsourcing and offshoring service pages could not be read on 3 October 2026. "Not published" means not described on the agency’s public pages when we read them. MixWork Spaces, MixWork Managed IT and MixWork Flex Benefits are priced separately on our pricing page; Total Care 360 is included in the MixWork EOR fee.

How we ranked them

Our criterion is the most complete route from a brief to a hire who is employed, equipped and supported in Indonesia, for a company without its own Indonesian entity. It rewards recruitment, employment and the services around the hire coming from one partner. It does not reward retained executive search depth, multi-country reach or temporary staffing, which is why several agencies are the better choice for those mandates and why each entry says so.

How the eight recruitment agencies in Indonesia were ranked: on the most complete route from a brief to a hire who is recruited, employed, equipped with workspace, a managed laptop and benefits, and supported in Indonesia by one partner, for a company without its own Indonesian entity. MixWork wrote the comparison and ranks itself first on this criterion. The criterion does not reward retained executive search depth, multi-country reach or temporary staffing, and service quality was not judged.

Disclosure. MixWork wrote this page and ranks itself first. We handled that conflict by stating the criterion before the list, using only facts from each agency’s own pages, naming where each agency is the stronger choice, and using no review-site ratings, testimonials or complaints. We are an interested party, so weigh the ranking with that in mind.

The eight agencies

1. MixWork

Best for: outsourcing a team to Indonesia, recruitment included

MixWork Recruit finds Indonesian professionals through specialised recruitment teams for IT, healthcare and medical, marketing, finance, industrial roles and C-suite search, working on proprietary data and AI tools inside MixWork’s own platform. MixWork EOR then employs the person on a permanent contract under Indonesian law. MixWork Total Care 360, a managed HR layer with a named HR manager backed by an HR team and monthly check-ins with the employee and with you, is included in the employment fee.

Around the hire, MixWork Spaces provides a desk in our own Jakarta office, MixWork Managed IT supplies and manages the laptop with stock held in the region, and MixWork Flex Benefits adds benefits above the statutory floor. Published prices: recruitment from 10% of first-year salary, success-based; MixWork EOR from USD 249 per employee per month; MixWork Spaces from USD 199 per workspace per month; MixWork Managed IT from USD 99 per device per month; MixWork Flex Benefits from USD 29 per employee per month.

A first shortlist arrives as fast as 24 hours for junior and mid-level roles and 48 hours for senior and director roles, as a best case rather than a guarantee. More than 80% of the people we place come from multinational or global-agency backgrounds, and twelve-month retention across our placements runs above 90%, measured on our own placement data; the placement data page sets out each figure and its basis.

Choose another agency when you need temporary or contract staff, contractors, a sponsored foreign work permit or employment outside Indonesia, none of which MixWork offers. We also run C-suite searches, but for a search at that level we would point you first to the executive search practices in entries 2 to 4.

2. Robert Walters Indonesia

Best for: specialist recruitment across eight functional areas

Robert Walters describes more than a decade in Indonesia and up to 25 years in South East Asia. Its pages present it as a recruitment, talent advisory and outsourcing firm, link to permanent recruitment, executive search, recruitment process outsourcing and a salary survey, and list eight specialist areas, from accounting and finance to technology.

Fees are not published. Its outsourcing and offshoring service pages could not be read on 3 October 2026, so we have not recorded what they include.

Choose Robert Walters for a specialist desk in one of its eight areas, for a senior search, or for salary data you can read before briefing anyone.

3. Michael Page Indonesia

Best for: breadth of sector desks, executive and board search

PT Michael Page Internasional Indonesia works from One Pacific Place in Jakarta’s Sudirman Central Business District. Its pages list permanent and temporary recruitment, executive search, interim and assessment, board and non-executive search, recruitment process outsourcing and contingent workforce solutions, across fourteen sectors.

Fees are not published. Its temporary and contingent services supply workers to clients; its pages do not describe employing a client’s permanent hire on the client’s behalf.

Choose Michael Page for desks across fourteen published sectors, for C-suite and board search, or for recruitment process outsourcing at scale.

4. Monroe Consulting Group Indonesia

Best for: boutique executive search in Jakarta

Monroe Consulting Group Indonesia, established in Jakarta in 2005 and part of the Empresaria Group, describes itself as an executive search firm, with divisions across industrial, consumer, health, professional services and technology. Its pages also list talent mapping, recruitment process outsourcing, outplacement, and payroll and employer-of-record services; the Indonesia payroll page describes payroll processing, social security registration and onboarding administration.

Fees are not published.

Choose Monroe for a country-manager, director or general-manager search run by a Jakarta team with two decades of executive search behind it.

5. JAC Recruitment Indonesia

Best for: employers connected to a Japan-headquartered network

JAC Recruitment Indonesia, established in Jakarta in 2002, belongs to the Japan-headquartered JAC Group, which states 36 locations in 12 countries. In Indonesia it runs three brands: JAC Recruitment for professional and executive roles, JAC Consulting for company set-up, licensing and HR consultancy, and JAC Outsourcing, whose pages describe an employer-of-record service alongside payroll, accounting and tax.

Neither the recruitment fee nor the employer-of-record price is published. The employer-of-record page covers statutory benefits; we found no workspace, device or wider benefits service.

Choose JAC if your company is Japan-linked or already works within the JAC network, or if you want recruitment, consulting and employment from one Japanese group.

6. PERSOL Indonesia

Best for: permanent, contract and temporary staffing

PERSOL Indonesia, at Mayapada Tower on Jalan Jenderal Sudirman, describes 30 years of local operations with offices in Jakarta, Cikarang and Surabaya, as part of PERSOL’s Asia Pacific network of more than 80 offices in 13 markets. Its pages list permanent recruitment, executive search through BTI Executive Search, temporary and contract staffing, contract and payroll administration, and HR advisory.

Fees are not published. Its temporary and contract staffing supplies workers to clients, which is a different structure from employing your named, permanent hire on your behalf.

Choose PERSOL for contract and temporary staffing, which MixWork does not offer, alongside permanent recruitment across an APAC network.

7. Glints TalentHub

Best for: one integrated provider across several countries

Glints TalentHub is the other provider whose pages, among those we could read, describe the full set of services around the hire: recruitment, employer of record, PEO, office space through Glints Workspace (in Jakarta and Batam in Indonesia), device management through Glints IT, private insurance through Glints Benefits, and ongoing HR support. It operates in 13 markets across South East Asia, Latin America and Greater China, alongside the Glints job marketplace.

Its pricing page publishes a one-time recruitment fee of 18% of first-year salary on the full-suite plan and an employer-of-record rate from SGD 399 per employee per month, with the final rate varying by country. On the published recruitment fee MixWork is lower, from 10% against 18%. Employment is priced from USD 249 per employee per month at MixWork, with Total Care 360 included, and from SGD 399 at Glints TalentHub.

Choose Glints TalentHub when you are hiring in several countries and want one integrated provider across all of them. MixWork employs in Indonesia only.

8. Adecco Indonesia

Best for: temporary staffing, payrolling and outsourcing at volume

Adecco Indonesia’s pages list permanent placement, executive search, temporary placement, payrolling, outsourcing and recruitment process outsourcing, as part of the Adecco Group, which states 62 countries and 3,800 branches. Its payrolling service covers contracts, onboarding, HR management and wages for a client’s contracted workforce.

Fees are not published. Its pages do not say whether Adecco is the legal employer under payrolling, so ask before assuming it covers a permanent hire for a company without an entity.

Choose Adecco for volume temporary staffing, which MixWork does not offer, or for payrolling across many countries.

What the recruitment fee does not cover

The full cost of one hire in Indonesia beyond the recruitment fee: a one-off recruitment fee, published at from 10% of first-year salary by MixWork and 18% one-time on the full-suite plan by Glints TalentHub, with the other six not publishing a fee; then every month an employer of record fee of USD 199 to 699 across the providers in the MixWork EOR pricing index, USD 249 at MixWork with Total Care 360 included, and employer BPJS of roughly 11% of gross salary; every year THR of one month of salary after 12 months of service, pro rata before that; plus optional workspace from USD 199, managed devices from USD 99 and flexible benefits from USD 29 a month at MixWork.
Cost lineWho sets itFigure
Recruitment feeThe agencyPublished: MixWork from 10%, Glints TalentHub 18% of first-year salary. Others: not published
Employer of record feeThe EORUSD 199 to 699 per employee per month across the providers in our EOR pricing index; MixWork USD 249 with Total Care 360 included
BPJS employer contributionsRegulationRoughly 11% of gross salary, subject to ceilings
THRRegulationOne month’s salary for employees with 12 months’ service (pro rata below that), paid no later than seven days before the employee’s religious holiday
Workspace, devices, benefitsOptionalMixWork Spaces from USD 199 per workspace per month; MixWork Managed IT from USD 99 per device per month; MixWork Flex Benefits from USD 29 per employee per month

Statutory figures are set by regulation and are the same whichever agency finds the person. Our guide to the cost to hire employees in Indonesia works through the arithmetic at three salary levels. Figures are indicative; confirm current rates with local counsel.

Two checks before you sign with any agency

Two checks before you sign with any recruitment agency in Indonesia: first, the licence, meaning which LPTKS-licensed entity will handle the placement, remembering that P3MI agencies place Indonesian workers abroad; second, who employs the person, because without an Indonesian entity someone must lawfully put the hire on payroll, register BPJS and withhold PPh 21.

The licence. Private placement agencies in Indonesia operate under an LPTKS licence; ask which licensed entity will handle the placement. Many search results for manpower agencies in Indonesia are P3MI companies that place Indonesian workers abroad under Law 18/2017, a different industry that uses the same vocabulary.

Who employs the person. If you have no Indonesian entity, a shortlist goes nowhere until someone can lawfully put the candidate on payroll, register them for BPJS and withhold PPh 21. Our recruitment agency guide sets out the five kinds of business that call themselves a recruitment agency here and the questions to ask each in writing.

How we compare, and how these claims are substantiated

This page compares published services, stated facts and published fees, not service quality. Every fact attributed to another agency was read from that agency’s own published pages on the date shown in the sources, and we hold copies of those pages as they appeared. "Not published" and "Not found" mean the item was not on the agency’s public pages on that date; they are not statements that the agency does not offer or charge it. We make no claim about any agency’s service quality and have used no review-site ratings, testimonials or complaints. We name where each agency is the stronger choice, including where it beats us. We rank ourselves first and have said why. Fees and services change without notice; verify against each agency’s own pages before you engage. Our comparison methodology and disclaimers set out the standards.

Spotted something inaccurate or out of date? Email support@mixwork.co with the statement and a link to the correct source and we will verify it, then correct or remove it promptly. The invitation applies to the agencies listed as much as to buyers.

The licensing and fee rules referred to here are set out in Law 13/2003 on Manpower (articles 35 to 38 on placement and placement fees), as amended by Law 6/2023; Ministerial Regulation 39/2016 on Manpower Placement (LPTKS licensing); and Law 18/2017 on the Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (P3MI agencies). Employment is governed by Law 13/2003 as amended by Law 6/2023; Government Regulation 35/2021 sets the rules on fixed-term contracts, outsourcing, working time and termination. The Constitutional Court (Decision 168/PUU-XXI/2023) gave lawmakers until 31 October 2026 to pass a new manpower law, which may change these rules. Nothing on this page is legal advice; have employment contracts and agency agreements reviewed by qualified Indonesian counsel.

Sources

Changelog

  • 12 September 2026: first publication. Eight agencies; facts and fees read from each agency’s own pages on that date.
  • 24 September 2026: added primary-source links for the licensing and fee rules. No agency, fee or ranking changed.
  • 3 October 2026: every agency’s pages re-read. Added the services-coverage table and the mandate guide; JAC Recruitment now described with JAC Outsourcing’s employer-of-record service; Glints TalentHub’s workspace, device and benefits services added; PERSOL’s offices and services updated. Ranking unchanged.

Trademark and non-affiliation notice

All third-party names and marks are the property of their respective owners. MixWork is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a partner of any agency listed. Agency services and fees change without notice; verify against the agency’s own pages before engaging.

Frequently Asked Questions

It depends on the mandate. For a company outsourcing a team to Indonesia that also needs the people recruited, MixWork ranks first on this page, because one partner covers recruitment, employment through MixWork EOR, workspace, managed IT and benefits; that is our own ranking, disclosed. For a C-suite search, Monroe Consulting Group, Michael Page or Robert Walters; for temporary and contract staffing, PERSOL or Adecco; for one integrated provider across several countries, Glints TalentHub.
Of the eight on this page, MixWork, Glints TalentHub and JAC (through JAC Outsourcing) describe an employer-of-record service on their own pages, and MixWork and Glints TalentHub publish the price. Monroe lists Payroll and EOR services; its Indonesia page describes payroll processing. PERSOL and Michael Page supply temporary or contract workers, and Adecco offers payrolling for a client’s contracted workforce; none of the three describes itself as an employer of record.
For a C-suite, country-manager or board search, start with Monroe Consulting Group, Michael Page or Robert Walters, each of which lists executive search as a service on its own Indonesian pages. MixWork also runs C-suite searches through a specialised team, but we do not rank ourselves first for that mandate.
Only two of the eight publish a fee: MixWork from 10% of first-year salary, success-based, and Glints TalentHub at 18% on its full-suite plan. The others do not publish a fee. Ask what the percentage is calculated on, when it is invoiced and what happens if the hire leaves early.
A recruitment agency finds a person whom you, or your employer of record, then employ. Domestic outsourcing (alih daya), where an Indonesian vendor employs workers and supplies them to you, is governed by Government Regulation 35/2021 and Ministry of Manpower Regulation 7/2026, which limits it to specified supporting activities. Outsourcing from an overseas entity to Indonesian workers or vendors is legal and widely practised, provided the arrangement follows local tax, commercial and labour regulations.
It varies by agency and mandate. On MixWork placements a first shortlist arrives as fast as 24 hours for junior and mid-level roles and 48 hours for senior and director roles, as a best case rather than a guarantee; retained executive search is slower by design. The 30-day resignation notice usually sets the start date.
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