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Peraturan Pemerintah 26/2025Regulation
Full titlePeraturan Pemerintah Nomor 26 Tahun 2025 tentang Perencanaan Perlindungan dan Pengelolaan Lingkungan Hidup
CitationPP 26/2025 (LN 2025 No. 96)
JurisdictionIndonesia
Enacted byPresident of Indonesia
Signed5 June 2025
Promulgated5 June 2025
Effective5 June 2025
ImplementsUU 32/2009, Pasal 10 ayat (3) huruf a, Pasal 11 and Pasal 12 ayat (4)

Peraturan Pemerintah 26/2025 (Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 26 Tahun 2025 tentang Perencanaan Perlindungan dan Pengelolaan Lingkungan Hidup) is an Indonesian government regulation on the planning of environmental protection and management. It was signed by President Prabowo Subianto and promulgated on 5 June 2025, taking effect on that day.[1] It was issued to implement Pasal 10 ayat (3) huruf a, Pasal 11 and Pasal 12 ayat (4) of Undang-Undang 32/2009 on environmental protection and management, as last amended by Undang-Undang 6/2023, and it belongs to the framework described at environmental approval in Indonesia.[2]

The regulation organises environmental planning in three stages: an environmental inventory, the designation of ecoregions, and the preparation of environmental protection and management plans (Rencana Perlindungan dan Pengelolaan Lingkungan Hidup, RPPLH) at national, provincial and district level.[3][4] Between the inventory and the plans it sets rules for determining the environmental carrying and assimilative capacity of an area.[5] Plans look ahead thirty years, must include climate adaptation and greenhouse gas mitigation, and feed into long-term and medium-term development plans through a strategic environmental assessment.[6][7][8] The national plan is attached to the regulation itself, and provinces and districts must adopt theirs by regional regulation within three years.[9][10][11] CRPG's regulatory tracker published a summary of the regulation in March 2026.[12]

Background

Undang-Undang 32/2009 makes planning the first of the six elements of environmental protection and management and divides it into inventory, ecoregion designation and the preparation of RPPLH. It requires the national RPPLH to be set by government regulation and provincial and district plans by regional regulation, and it requires carrying capacity to be set where no plan yet exists, with the procedure left to a government regulation.[13] Peraturan Pemerintah 26/2025 supplies those implementing rules. Its elucidation presents it as a way of integrating environmental planning into the country's development plans and of guiding the use of natural resources.[14]

Pasal 1 defines the RPPLH as a written plan setting out the environmental potential and problems of an area and the efforts to protect and manage it over a given period. It defines an ecoregion (ekoregion) as a geographic area sharing climate, soil, water, native flora and fauna and patterns of human interaction with nature, and environmental services (jasa lingkungan hidup) as the benefits of ecosystems and the environment to people, including resource provision, natural regulation, support of natural processes and the preservation of cultural values.[15]

Inventory and ecoregions

The environmental inventory is carried out at national, island or archipelago, and ecoregion level. The Minister conducts the national and island inventories through data collection and grouping, analysis, documentation and evaluation.[16] The spatial data to be collected include forest areas, land systems, peat ecosystem functions, river basins, land cover, energy and mineral potential, geological hazards, languages and the distribution of ethnic groups; the non-spatial data include population, vulnerability to climate change, local wisdom and natural resource and environmental accounts. Data are gathered through community involvement, field surveys and published government and other official data.[16:1] The results are evaluated by the Minister at least once every five years and serve as the basis for ecoregions, carrying capacity and the RPPLH. Governors and regents or mayors inventory the ecoregions within their territory once the Minister has designated them.[17]

The Minister designates land and marine ecoregions by ministerial decision, on the basis of the national and island inventories and after coordinating with the ministers responsible for spatial planning, marine affairs and fisheries, and energy and mineral resources. Designated ecoregions are reviewed when a natural or non-natural event changes the land surface, when national boundaries change, or when scientific developments warrant.[18]

Carrying capacity

The Minister determines carrying and assimilative capacity (daya dukung dan daya tampung lingkungan hidup) for the nation and for islands, governors for provinces and cross-district ecoregions, and regents and mayors for their districts. Capacity may be calculated by the environmental services performance method, by ecological footprint and biocapacity, or by another nationally or internationally recognised method, and the resulting document states whether the environment's status is exceeded (terlampaui) or not yet exceeded. Capacity is set by decision of the Minister, governor or regent or mayor, and is evaluated at least once a year.[5:1]

Environmental protection and management plans

The regulation provides for a national RPPLH prepared by the Minister, provincial plans prepared by governors in consultation with the Minister, and district plans prepared by regents and mayors in consultation with the governor. Each rests on the inventories and on the plan of the level above, and must take account of ecological character, population distribution, natural resource potential, local wisdom, community aspirations and climate change.[4:1][19]

A plan is prepared in four steps: identification of potential and problems, scenario development, formulation and adoption. Identification uses a driver-pressure-state-impact-response framework, and the resulting scenarios address environmental challenges up to thirty years ahead using strategic foresight or another method. Scenarios are developed through public consultation with academics and environmental organisations and through discussion with ministries, agencies and regional heads, and produce a vision and a formulation of the plan.[20][6:1]

The formulation must include plans for the use or reservation of natural resources, for the maintenance and protection of environmental quality and functions, for the control, monitoring and conservation of resources, and for adaptation to and mitigation of climate change; the last must cover at least resilience to climate and disaster risk and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.[7:1] The plan is expressed as policies, strategies and programmes. Its policies cover the protection of areas with life-support functions and high environmental service performance, the recovery of degraded areas, resource use within carrying capacity, the reservation of resource-rich areas, the added value of natural resources, decarbonisation towards net zero emission, and resilience to climate change and disaster risk reduction.[7:2]

The RPPLH is the basis for, and is incorporated into, long-term and medium-term development plans, through a strategic environmental assessment (kajian lingkungan hidup strategis). It also serves as the reference for plans based on environmental media or ecosystems and for sector-specific policies.[8:1] The national RPPLH is set by the regulation itself and appears in Lampiran III; its key performance indicators appear in Lampiran IV. Provincial and district plans are set by regional regulation, and regions sharing an ecoregion must integrate their plans through inter-regional cooperation, with consultation led by the Minister across provinces and by the governor across districts.[9:1][10:1][21] The RPPLH is the basis for natural resource use; where no plan exists, use must follow carrying capacity with regard to the sustainability of environmental processes and productivity and to community safety and welfare.[22]

Monitoring, participation and information

The Minister, governors and regents or mayors monitor implementation of the plans at least once a year against their key performance indicators and evaluate it at least once every five years, with the evaluation serving as the basis for revision.[21:1] Guidance to regional governments, communities, universities and environmental organisations is given at least once a year, and the public takes part by supplying data and information, giving opinions and submitting complaints.[23] Each level of government builds a planning information system covering the inventory, ecoregions, carrying capacity, the RPPLH and monitoring results, integrated into the wider environmental information system. Planning is funded from the state and regional budgets and other lawful, non-binding sources.[24]

Transition

Provincial and district plans already enacted by regional regulation remain in force until evaluated, and plans still in the adoption process continue under the new regulation. The evaluation must take place within two years of promulgation, and a plan found not to conform must be adjusted and re-enacted within three years of the evaluation result. Pasal 54 requires every province and district to adopt its RPPLH within three years of the regulation's enactment.[11:1]

The CRPG tracker's March 2026 summary attributed to the regulation a quarterly reporting duty and a public consultation provision at Pasal 29 ayat (2); the held text contains neither, and sets monitoring at least once a year.[12:1][20:1][21:2]

See also

Part of a series on Environmental approval in Indonesia
Extended producer responsibility in Indonesia · Merkuri · Permen ESDM 8/2026 · Permenkes 9/2026 · Permen LH 1/2010 · Permen LH 19/2008 · Permen LH 22/2025 · Permen LH 3/2009 · Permen LH 6/2026 · Permen LHK 14/2024 · Permen LHK 15/2019 · Permen LHK 26/2020 · Permen LHK 6/2021 · Permen PUPR 3/2023 · PP 22/2021 · PP 23/2024 · PP 26/2025 · PP 28/2025 · PP 46/2017 · PP 5/2021 · Perpres 3/2016 · Septic tank regulation in Indonesia · UU 32/2009 · UU 6/2023
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Categories Government regulations of Indonesia · Environmental law of Indonesia · Climate change policy of Indonesia
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References

  1. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 55 and closing formula (Ditetapkan di Jakarta pada tanggal 5 Juni 2025; Diundangkan di Jakarta pada tanggal 5 Juni 2025; Lembaran Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 2025 Nomor 96). regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎

  2. [P] PP 26/2025, preamble, Menimbang and Mengingat angka 1 and 2. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎

  3. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 2 and Pasal 3. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎

  4. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 26. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎ ↩︎

  5. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 19 to Pasal 25. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎ ↩︎

  6. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 30 and Pasal 31. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎ ↩︎

  7. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 32 ayat (1) to (5) and Pasal 33 ayat (1) to (3). regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  8. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 34 ayat (1) to (4). regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎ ↩︎

  9. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 35 to Pasal 37. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎ ↩︎

  10. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 38 and Pasal 39. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎ ↩︎

  11. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 53 and Pasal 54. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎ ↩︎

  12. [E] "Indonesia's Environmental Protection and Management Planning Framework: PP 26/2025", CRPG regulatory tracker, crpg.id, 18 March 2026. https://crpg.id/how-does-pp-26-2025-redefine-environmental-protection-planning-in-indonesia/ (free sign-in required on crpg.id) The post carries a notice that it was drafted with AI-assisted research tools; it is cited for the record of the development, not for its legal content. ↩︎ ↩︎

  13. [P] UU 32/2009 as amended, Pasal 4, Pasal 5, Pasal 9, Pasal 10 ayat (3) and Pasal 12. regulation_id UU_32_2009. ↩︎

  14. [P] PP 26/2025, Penjelasan, I. Umum. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎

  15. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 1 angka 3, 5 and 10. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎

  16. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 3, Pasal 4 and Pasal 5 ayat (1) to (4). regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎ ↩︎

  17. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 10, Pasal 11 and Pasal 12. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎

  18. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 13 to Pasal 18. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎

  19. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 27 and Pasal 28. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎

  20. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 29 (a single paragraph listing the four stages). regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎ ↩︎

  21. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 41 to Pasal 45. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  22. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 40. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎

  23. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 46 to Pasal 48. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎

  24. [P] PP 26/2025, Pasal 49 to Pasal 52. regulation_id PP_26_2025. ↩︎