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Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan 5/2018Regulation
Full titlePeraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor P.5/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/2/2018 tentang Standar dan Sertifikasi Kompetensi Penanggung Jawab Operasional Pengolahan Air Limbah dan Penanggung Jawab Pengendalian Pencemaran Air
CitationPermen LHK P.5/2018; Berita Negara 2018 No. 306
JurisdictionIndonesia
Enacted byMinister of Environment and Forestry
Signed13 February 2018
Promulgated26 February 2018
Effective26 February 2018
ReplacesPermen LH 3/2009

Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan 5/2018 (Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor P.5/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/2/2018 tentang Standar dan Sertifikasi Kompetensi Penanggung Jawab Operasional Pengolahan Air Limbah dan Penanggung Jawab Pengendalian Pencemaran Air) is an Indonesian ministerial regulation that sets competence standards and a certification requirement for the two positions responsible for wastewater treatment and water pollution control within a business. It was signed by the Minister of Environment and Forestry on 13 February 2018 and took effect on its promulgation on 26 February 2018.[1]

The regulation requires the holders of both positions to prove their competence through a certificate issued after a competence test by a licensed professional certification body, and obliges every business with a wastewater treatment installation to employ certified personnel within three years.[2][3] It forms part of the operator-side framework of wastewater and sanitation regulation in Indonesia, alongside the effluent limits set by Permen LH 5/2014, and it replaced Permen LH 3/2009, which had certified water pollution control managers.[4]

Background

The preamble grounds the regulation in the national labour competence system rather than in environmental law. It refers to a 2016 decision of the Minister of Manpower adopting a national work competence standard (Standar Kompetensi Kerja Nasional Indonesia, SKKNI) for industrial wastewater treatment, and to a 2016 regulation of the Minister of Manpower under which such standards are applied by technical agencies for professional certification and the definition of national occupations.[5] Its legal bases include the 2003 Manpower Law, Undang-Undang 32/2009 on environmental protection and management, Government Regulation 82/2001 on water quality management and water pollution control, and Government Regulation 23/2004 on the National Professional Certification Agency (Badan Nasional Sertifikasi Profesi, BNSP).[5:1]

Positions and competence standards

The regulation defines two positions. The wastewater treatment operations officer (Penanggung Jawab Operasional Pengolahan Air Limbah) plans, operates and optimises a wastewater installation, maintains it and handles emergencies in its operation. The water pollution control officer (Penanggung Jawab Pengendalian Pencemaran Air) holds internal responsibility for preventing and remedying water pollution caused by the business, assessing the pollution potential of its production, setting pollution control strategy and programmes, and supervising their implementation.[6] The competence standard for both positions, contained in the annex, serves as a work guideline, as the basis of competence-based training curricula, and as the basis of certification schemes and test material.[7]

Certification

Both officers must be competent, competence must be proved by certification, and certification is obtained through a competence test.[2:1] The test is conducted by a professional certification body (Lembaga Sertifikasi Profesi, LSP) that holds a BNSP licence and is registered by the ministry's agency for extension and human resources development.[8]

Eligibility depends on education and experience. An operations officer needs at least a three-year diploma with one year of wastewater treatment experience in an environmental discipline or two years in another discipline, or a senior secondary education with four years' experience. A pollution control officer needs a master's degree, or a bachelor's degree with two years' experience in an environmental discipline or three in another, or a three-year diploma with three or five years' experience, or a senior secondary education with seven years' experience in water pollution control. Candidates must also be recommended by the head of their business and be able to use Indonesian, and may take competence-based training before the test.[9]

Certificates are issued by the LSP, are valid for three years, may be extended, and must be reported to the Minister. The LSP must carry out annual surveillance of certificate holders, the results of which are taken into account on extension.[10][11] The ministry's human resources agency, with the technical directorate for water pollution control, monitors and evaluates the scheme and reports to the Director General responsible for pollution control.[12]

Transition and repeal

A business with a wastewater treatment installation was given three years from promulgation to employ certified officers in both positions, on pain of administrative sanctions.[3:1] Certificates already issued to water pollution control managers remained valid until they expired, and Permen LH 3/2009 on the certification and competence standard of water pollution control managers was revoked.[13][4:1]

CRPG's regulatory tracker published an analysis of the regulation on 26 November 2025.[14]

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
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Categories Ministerial regulations of Indonesia · Environmental law of Indonesia · Sanitation in Indonesia
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References

  1. [P] Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor P.5/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/2/2018 tentang Standar dan Sertifikasi Kompetensi Penanggung Jawab Operasional Pengolahan Air Limbah dan Penanggung Jawab Pengendalian Pencemaran Air, Pasal 13 and closing formula (signed in Jakarta on 13 February 2018 by Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya; promulgated on 26 February 2018). Berita Negara 2018 No. 306. Full text held in the CRPG regulation vault (regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.5_2018); the competence-standard annex is not held in machine-readable form. ↩︎

  2. [P] Permen LHK P.5/2018, Pasal 3 ayat (1)–(3). regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.5_2018. ↩︎ ↩︎

  3. [P] Permen LHK P.5/2018, Pasal 10 ayat (1)–(2). regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.5_2018. ↩︎ ↩︎

  4. [P] Permen LHK P.5/2018, Pasal 12. regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.5_2018. ↩︎ ↩︎

  5. [P] Permen LHK P.5/2018, preamble (Menimbang huruf a–c, citing Keputusan Menteri Tenaga Kerja 187/2016 and Peraturan Menteri Tenaga Kerja 2/2016, Pasal 11 and Pasal 18; Mengingat angka 1–10). regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.5_2018. ↩︎ ↩︎

  6. [P] Permen LHK P.5/2018, Pasal 1 angka 1–2. regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.5_2018. ↩︎

  7. [P] Permen LHK P.5/2018, Pasal 2 ayat (1)–(2). regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.5_2018. ↩︎

  8. [P] Permen LHK P.5/2018, Pasal 4 ayat (1)–(3). regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.5_2018. ↩︎

  9. [P] Permen LHK P.5/2018, Pasal 5 ayat (1)–(3). regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.5_2018. ↩︎

  10. [P] Permen LHK P.5/2018, Pasal 6 ayat (1)–(3). regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.5_2018. ↩︎

  11. [P] Permen LHK P.5/2018, Pasal 7 ayat (1)–(3). regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.5_2018. ↩︎

  12. [P] Permen LHK P.5/2018, Pasal 8 and Pasal 9. regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.5_2018. ↩︎

  13. [P] Permen LHK P.5/2018, Pasal 11. regulation_id PERMENLHK_P.5_2018. ↩︎

  14. [E] "What Certification Requirements Apply to Wastewater Operators Under PERMENLHK P.5/2018?", CRPG regulatory tracker, crpg.id, 26 November 2025. https://crpg.id/what-certification-requirements-apply-to-wastewater-operators-under-permenlhk-p-5-2018/ (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. ↩︎