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Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan 16/2019Regulation
Full titlePeraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor P.16/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/4/2019 tentang Perubahan Kedua atas Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup Nomor 5 Tahun 2014 tentang Baku Mutu Air Limbah
CitationPermen LHK 16/2019
JurisdictionIndonesia
Enacted byMinister of Environment and Forestry
Signed9 April 2019
Promulgated16 April 2019
Effective16 April 2019
ImplementsUU 32/2009, Pasal 20 ayat (2) huruf b and ayat (5)
AmendsPermen LH 5/2014

Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan 16/2019 is a regulation of the Indonesian Minister of Environment and Forestry, Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor P.16/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/4/2019 tentang Perubahan Kedua atas Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup Nomor 5 Tahun 2014 tentang Baku Mutu Air Limbah, the second amendment to Indonesia's general regulation on wastewater quality standards, which revises the effluent standards for the textile industry. It was signed on 9 April 2019 and took effect on its promulgation on 16 April 2019.[1] It forms part of the effluent-standard layer of wastewater regulation in Indonesia.

The amendment replaces the textile annex of Permen LH 5/2014 and inserts a transitional article giving textile plants already in operation staggered periods, of three months to one year, to meet the new limits for colour, suspended solids and oxygen demand, during which an interim standard applies.[2]

Background

The preamble states three grounds: the need to regulate wastewater quality standards in implementation of Pasal 20 ayat (2) huruf b and ayat (5) of UU 32/2009 on environmental protection and management; the potential of textile wastewater to pollute water, so that standards must be applied before discharge; and the finding that the textile standards in Permen LH 5/2014, as first amended by Permen LHK P.21/2018, no longer suited conditions in the field.[3] The amended regulation had been published in Berita Negara 2014 No. 1815 and the first amendment in Berita Negara 2018 No. 926.[3:1] CRPG's regulatory tracker published an analysis of the amendment on 26 November 2025.[4]

Provisions

The amendment is made in a single article, Pasal I, of two points.[2:1] The first inserts a new Pasal 16A between Pasal 16 and Pasal 17 of Permen LH 5/2014. Under it, textile businesses already operating with a wastewater flow above 100 cubic metres a day must meet the standard for chemical and biochemical oxygen demand (COD and BOD) within one year of the amendment's entry into force, and the standard for total suspended solids within six months; the same businesses must meet the standard for colour within three months. Until those periods run out, textile businesses must meet the interim standard in Lampiran I of the amending regulation.[5] The second point replaces Lampiran XLII of Permen LH 5/2014 with Lampiran II of the amending regulation.[2:2]

Relationship to other instruments

Textile plants discharging 1,000 cubic metres a day or more are also among the sectors obliged to operate continuous online wastewater monitoring under Permen LHK 93/2018, so that the textile limits set here are among those against which continuous monitoring data are checked.[6]

See also

Part of a series on Wastewater and sanitation regulation in Indonesia
AIIRA · Inpres 1/2024 · Permen LH 11/2025 · Permen LH 12/2025 · Permen LH 19/2010 · Permen LH 26/2012 · Permen LH 3/2010 · Permen LH 9/2006 · Permen LHK 16/2019 · Permen LHK 21/2018 · Permen LHK 5/2014 · Permen LHK 5/2018 · Permen LHK 5/2021 · Permen LHK 5/2022 · Permen LHK 68/2016 · Permen LHK 80/2019 · Permen LHK 93/2018 · Permen PU 11/2014 · Permen PUPR 21/2021 · PP 28/2025 · Septic tank regulation in Indonesia · Water and sanitation bill of Indonesia
Identifiers Know ID K237 · Work URI /akn/id/act/permen-lhk/2019/16 · RegVault PERMENLHK_16_2019
Categories Ministerial regulations of Indonesia · Environmental law of Indonesia
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References

  1. [P] Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor P.16/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/4/2019, closing formula (Ditetapkan di Jakarta pada tanggal 9 April 2019; Diundangkan di Jakarta pada tanggal 16 April 2019), Berita Negara 2019 No. 433, and Pasal II (in force on promulgation). regulation_id PERMENLHK_16_2019; a shorter copy is held as PERMENLHK_P16_2019. https://peraturan.bpk.go.id/Details/286527/permen-lhk-no-16-tahun-2019 ↩︎

  2. [P] Permen LHK 16/2019, Pasal I angka 1-2. The tables of Lampiran I and II are not legible in the held text. regulation_id PERMENLHK_16_2019. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  3. [P] Permen LHK 16/2019, preamble (Menimbang huruf a-d; Mengingat angka 1-5). regulation_id PERMENLHK_16_2019. ↩︎ ↩︎

  4. [E] "What Second Amendments Apply to Wastewater Standards Under PERMENLHK P.16/2019?", CRPG regulatory tracker, crpg.id, 26 November 2025. https://crpg.id/what-second-amendments-apply-to-wastewater-standards-under-permenlhk-p-16-2019/ (free sign-in required on crpg.id) The post carries a notice that it is AI-generated; it is cited for the record of the development, not for its legal content. ↩︎

  5. [P] Permen LHK 16/2019, Pasal I angka 1 (Pasal 16A ayat (1)-(3) of Permen LH 5/2014). In the held text, both points of ayat (1) state the same threshold of more than 100 cubic metres a day. regulation_id PERMENLHK_16_2019. ↩︎

  6. [P] Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor P.93/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/8/2018, Pasal 2 ayat (2) huruf k; as amended by Permen LHK 80/2019, Pasal I angka 1-2. regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.93_2018, PERMENLHK_80_2019. ↩︎