| Full title | Peraturan Menteri Kehutanan Nomor P.37/Menhut-V/2010 tentang Tata Cara Penyusunan Rencana Pengelolaan Rehabilitasi Hutan dan Lahan |
|---|---|
| Citation | Permenhut P.37/Menhut-V/2010; Berita Negara 2010 No. 389 |
| Jurisdiction | Indonesia |
| Enacted by | Minister of Forestry |
| Signed | 6 August 2010 |
| Promulgated | 11 August 2010 |
| Effective | 11 August 2010 |
| Replaced by | Permen LHK 10/2022 |
Peraturan Menteri Kehutanan 37/2010 was an Indonesian ministerial regulation that set the procedure for preparing five-year management plans for forest and land rehabilitation. Its full title is Peraturan Menteri Kehutanan Nomor P.37/Menhut-V/2010 tentang Tata Cara Penyusunan Rencana Pengelolaan Rehabilitasi Hutan dan Lahan (procedures for preparing forest and land rehabilitation management plans). It was signed by the Minister of Forestry on 6 August 2010 and took effect on its promulgation on 11 August 2010.[1]
The regulation governed the Rencana Pengelolaan Rehabilitasi Hutan dan Lahan (RPRHL), a management plan for forest and land rehabilitation drawn up for each district or municipality and each forest management area, on the basis of the technical rehabilitation plan for the watershed (RTkRHL-DAS). It used the watershed as the unit of management, divided into micro-catchments, and set the method of preparation, the minimum content of a plan, and which authority prepared and approved it.[2][3] One of the three streams of a plan was the development of water resources, which ties the instrument to the water resources law of Indonesia as well as to forestry.[4]
It was revoked by Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry 10/2022, which consolidated rehabilitation planning.[5] The CRPG regulatory tracker published three analyses of it in November 2025, one of which recorded the replacement.[6]
The regulation implemented Pasal 15 ayat (4) and Pasal 16 ayat (3) of Government Regulation 76/2008 on forest rehabilitation and reclamation. Its legal bases included Law 41/1999 on forestry, as amended by Law 19/2004, and Law 32/2004 on regional government.[7] It was one of a set of forestry planning rules: the management plan was to build on the technical watershed rehabilitation plan prepared under Regulation P.32/2009, which the same 2022 regulation also revoked.[2:1][5:1]
The stated purpose was to guide the parties responsible for preparing plans, and to provide a management plan for rehabilitation based on the watershed technical plan, including mangroves, coastal forest, swamps and peat. The stated objectives included rehabilitation that restores forest and land, controls erosion, abrasion, intrusion and sedimentation, develops water resources and builds institutions.[2:2]
The method of preparation had five steps: fixing the planning area, building the smallest rehabilitation management units, mapping, sharpening the analysis, and fixing the activities (Pasal 5). Rehabilitation used the watershed as its management unit, divided into micro-catchments each carrying a national identity code; a micro-catchment containing selected critical land became a management unit (Pasal 8). Plans were drawn on maps at a scale of at least 1:50,000 (Pasal 22).[4:1]
Once fixed, the plan was projected annually and grouped into three streams: restoring forest and land, controlling erosion and sedimentation, and developing water resources (Pasal 18). The water-resources stream concentrated on regulating the watershed's water regime and conserving water, through reducing surface run-off, increasing infiltration with small reservoirs, recharge wells and biopore holes, and protecting springs by treating their catchment within a radius of 200 metres (Pasal 21).[4:2] A plan had at minimum to contain policy and strategy, institutions, financing, supporting activities, a timetable, and monitoring and evaluation (Pasal 23). Financial analysis by net present value, internal rate of return and benefit-cost ratio was required only for plans outside the forest area and in production forest, since rehabilitation in conservation and protection forest was directed at conservation (Pasal 29).[8]
Each plan covered one district or municipality and one forest management area over five years, with the watershed or sub-watershed as the unit of analysis (Pasal 47 and 50). Plans for conservation forest were prepared and fixed by the minister through the Director General; plans for production and protection forest by the regent or mayor, except for the working area of the state forestry company Perum Perhutani, which prepared its own, and forest under provincial management, where the governor did so; plans for land outside the forest area by the regent or mayor (Pasal 48 and 49).[3:1] At district level, a team chaired by the head of the regional development planning agency prepared the plan, which was assessed by the head of the watershed management office (BPDAS) before approval (Pasal 51). All plans were to be completed by 31 December 2011 (Pasal 52).[3:2]
Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry 10/2022, on preparing the general forest and land rehabilitation plan for watersheds and the annual rehabilitation plan, was signed on 12 July 2022 and promulgated on 22 July 2022. Its Pasal 40 revoked Regulation P.32/2009, Regulation P.37/2010 and Regulation P.38/2010 on the annual rehabilitation plan.[5:2] Two of the tracker posts of November 2025 presented the 2010 regulation as active; the third described its replacement by the 2022 regulation.[9][6:1][10]
K210 · Work URI /akn/id/act/permenhut/2010/37 · RegVault PERMENHUT_P37_2010[P] Permenhut P.37/Menhut-V/2010, Pasal 53 (in force on promulgation) and closing
formula (Ditetapkan di Jakarta Pada tanggal 6 Agustus 2010; Diundangkan di Jakarta pada
tanggal 11 Agustus 2010). Berita Negara 2010 No. 389. regulation_id PERMENHUT_P37_2010. ↩︎
[P] Permenhut P.37/2010, Pasal 1 to Pasal 4 and Pasal 46. regulation_id
PERMENHUT_P37_2010. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
[P] Permenhut P.37/2010, Pasal 46 to Pasal 52. regulation_id PERMENHUT_P37_2010. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
[P] Permenhut P.37/2010, Pasal 5, Pasal 8, Pasal 18 to Pasal 22. regulation_id
PERMENHUT_P37_2010. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
[P] Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan Nomor 10 Tahun 2022 tentang
Penyusunan Rencana Umum Rehabilitasi Hutan dan Lahan Daerah Aliran Sungai dan Rencana Tahunan
Rehabilitasi Hutan dan Lahan, Pasal 40 huruf a to c, Pasal 41 and closing formula (signed 12 July
2022; promulgated 22 July 2022). regulation_id PERMENLHK_10_2022. ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
[E] "Watershed Management Planning Under PERMENHUT P.37/2010", CRPG regulatory tracker, crpg.id, 26 November 2025. https://crpg.id/watershed-management-planning-under-permenhut-p-37-2010/ (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. ↩︎ ↩︎
[P] Permenhut P.37/2010, considerations (Menimbang) and legal bases (Mengingat).
regulation_id PERMENHUT_P37_2010. ↩︎
[P] Permenhut P.37/2010, Pasal 23 and Pasal 29. regulation_id
PERMENHUT_P37_2010. ↩︎
[E] "PERMENHUT P.37/2010: Management Planning for Forest and Land Rehabilitation", CRPG regulatory tracker, crpg.id, 26 November 2025. https://crpg.id/permenhut-p-37-2010-management-planning-for-forest-and-land-rehabilitation/ (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. ↩︎
[E] "Forest and Land Rehabilitation Planning at the Watershed Level: PERMENHUT P37/2010", CRPG regulatory tracker, crpg.id, 26 November 2025. https://crpg.id/what-are-the-watershed-management-requirements-under-permenhut-p37-2010/ (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. ↩︎