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Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan 70/2017Regulation
Full titlePeraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor P.70/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2017 tentang Tata Cara Pelaksanaan Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, Role of Conservation, Sustainable Management of Forest and Enhancement of Forest Carbon Stocks
CitationPermen LHK 70/2017
JurisdictionIndonesia
Enacted byMinister of Environment and Forestry
Signed29 December 2017
Promulgated24 January 2018

Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan 70/2017 (Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor P.70/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2017 tentang Tata Cara Pelaksanaan Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, Role of Conservation, Sustainable Management of Forest and Enhancement of Forest Carbon Stocks) is an Indonesian ministerial regulation on the procedures for implementing REDD+: reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, together with the role of conservation, sustainable forest management and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks. It was signed by the Minister of Environment and Forestry on 29 December 2017 and promulgated on 24 January 2018.[1] It is one of the instruments described at carbon trading and climate regulation in Indonesia.

The regulation's legal bases include the laws ratifying the climate convention, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, the forestry and environmental laws, and the 2017 government regulation on environmental economic instruments.[1:1] A CRPG analysis published in November 2025 described it as the operational framework for REDD+ in Indonesia.[2]

Background

The official database of regulations lists twelve legal bases for the regulation. They are the laws ratifying the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Undang-Undang 6/1994), the Kyoto Protocol (Undang-Undang 17/2004) and the Paris Agreement (Undang-Undang 16/2016); the forestry law, Undang-Undang 41/1999; the environmental law, Undang-Undang 32/2009; the village and regional government laws of 2014; Peraturan Pemerintah 6/2007 on forest planning and utilisation, Peraturan Pemerintah 71/2014 on peat ecosystems and Peraturan Pemerintah 46/2017 on environmental economic instruments; Peraturan Presiden 71/2011 on the national greenhouse gas inventory; Peraturan Presiden 16/2015 on the Ministry of Environment and Forestry; and the ministry's 2015 regulation on its organisation.[1:2] It was published in the Berita Negara of 2018 as No. 161.[1:3]

Content as reported

According to the CRPG analysis, the regulation provides for REDD+ to be implemented on a national scale with subnational implementation, and defines a set of REDD+ tools (Perangkat REDD+): a national strategy, a forest reference emission level or forest reference level (FREL/FRL), measurement, reporting and verification (MRV), a national forest monitoring system, funding instruments, safeguards and a safeguards information system, and the national registry system. The analysis reports that the regulation defines results-based payment as a positive incentive or payment obtained from verified emission reductions and non-carbon benefits, and names regional governments, forest management units, forest and land licence holders, and managers of state and private forests as REDD+ implementers.[2:1]

Later instruments

Results-based payment (Pembayaran Berbasis Kinerja) later became one of the four mechanisms of the carbon economic value under Peraturan Presiden 98/2021, which provided for it at international, national and provincial levels without transferring ownership of the carbon.[3] Permen LHK 21/2022 defines it as an incentive or payment obtained from verified or certified emission reductions and validated non-carbon benefits, and channels such payments through the environmental fund agency.[4]

See also

Part of a series on Carbon trading and climate regulation in Indonesia
Climate change bill of Indonesia · KONEKSI · Permen ESDM 7/2026 · Permenhut 28/2025 · Permenhut 37/2010 · Permenhut 6/2026 · Permenhut 7/2026 · Permen LHK 10/2022 · Permen LHK 14/2017 · Permen LHK 15/2019 · Permen LHK 16/2020 · Permen LHK 21/2022 · Permen LHK 27/2021 · Permen LHK 70/2017 · POJK 10/2026 · POJK 9/2026 · PP 26/2025 · PP 33/2023 · Perpres 110/2025 · Perpres 55/2019 · Perpres 98/2021 · PESPA · UU 32/2009 · UU 41/1999 · UU 59/2024
Identifiers Know ID K178 · Work URI /akn/id/act/permen-lhk/2017/70
Categories Ministerial regulations of Indonesia · Forestry in Indonesia · Climate change policy of Indonesia
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References

  1. [P] Permen LHK No. P.70/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/12/2017 Tahun 2017, peraturan.go.id (Directorate General of Legislation): enacted in Jakarta on 29 December 2017, promulgated 24 January 2018, Berita Negara 2018 No. 161; Dasar Hukum as listed. The text of the regulation is not held in the CRPG regulation vault and was not consulted. https://peraturan.go.id/id/permen-lhk-no-p-70-menlhk-setjen-kum-1-12-2017-tahun-2017 ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  2. [E] "What Carbon Sequestration Requirements Apply Under PERMENLHK P.70/2017?", CRPG regulatory tracker, crpg.id, 26 November 2025. https://crpg.id/what-carbon-sequestration-requirements-apply-under-permenlhk-p-70-2017/ (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. The primary text of the regulation was not consulted for this article. ↩︎ ↩︎

  3. [P] Perpres 98/2021, Pasal 47 ayat (1) and Pasal 55 ayat (3) and (4). regulation_id PERPRES_98_2021. ↩︎

  4. [P] Permen LHK 21/2022, Pasal 1 angka 6 and Pasal 32 ayat (3). regulation_id PERMEN_LHK_21_2022. ↩︎