National Forestry Plan 2011-2030 Update: PERMENHUT 8/2026

The Minister of Forestry has issued Peraturan Menteri Kehutanan Republik Indonesia Nomor 8 Tahun 2026 tentang Rencana Kehutanan Tingkat Nasional Tahun 2011-2030 (Regulation of the Minister of Forestry Number 8 of 2026 on the National Forestry Plan 2011-2030). Signed in Jakarta on 21 April 2026 by Minister of Forestry Raja Juli Antoni, the regulation enters into force on the date of its promulgation, as stated in Pasal 7. It contains the second revision of the plan known by its Indonesian abbreviation as the RKTN, the document that has anchored national forest planning since 2011, and it replaces the first revision issued in 2019 by the then Ministry of Environment and Forestry.

The RKTN sits at the top of Indonesia's forest planning hierarchy. Pasal 1 describes its content as the macro direction for the spatial use and the potential of forest areas, covering both forestry development and development outside the forestry sector that uses forest areas, over a twenty-year period. The first revision, Regulation P.41/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/7/2019, predates a series of changes that Annex I of the new regulation cites as reasons for the reissuance: the Job Creation Law and its implementing regulations, the Asta Cita policy agenda of the current administration, the RPJPN 2025-2045 and RPJMN 2025-2029 national development plans, carbon absorption targets under the ratified Paris Agreement, the designation of preservation areas, agrarian reform, and the one-map policy. Annex I also records growing demands on forest space from national strategic programs, food and energy security programs, natural disasters, and other land-based uses.

On substance, Pasal 1 establishes that the plan consists of two elements: a forest area plan at the national scale and the RKTN map. Under Pasal 3, the map itself comes in two layers, a national map for 2011-2030 and regional versions of that map, both set out in Annex II as an integral part of the regulation. Pasal 4 then makes the RKTN the guideline for seven downstream instruments: macro plans for the administration of forestry, provincial-level forestry plans, forest management plans at the management-unit level, indicative maps for the utilization and use of forest areas, business work plans for forest utilization, forestry development plans, and the control of forestry development activities. The same article assigns the plan a second function as the reference for coordination among sectors that use forest areas.

The transitional provisions preserve continuity. Under Pasal 5, all provisions implementing the 2019 regulation remain in force to the extent they do not conflict with the new regulation. Pasal 6 revokes and declares without effect Regulation P.41/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/7/2019, which was published in State Gazette Number 928 of 2019.

For provincial governments and forest management units, the practical consequence is that planning documents prepared after promulgation must refer to the revised spatial direction and the new Annex II maps. Holders of and applicants for forest utilization business work plans draw on the same maps when proposing working areas. Sectors outside forestry that require forest space, among them food and energy programs and national strategic projects, are routed through the plan's spatial allocation, which also serves as the shared reference contemplated by the one-map policy.

Regulatory Context

The regulation is among the first planning instruments issued by the Ministry of Forestry as a standalone ministry following the separation of forestry from environmental affairs. Environmental control instruments remain with the environment administration, including the rules on supervision and administrative sanctions that apply to holders of environmental approvals and the accompanying provisions on administrative fines. The RKTN's reference to carbon absorption targets connects national forest spatial planning to Indonesia's emission commitments under the Paris Agreement, an area in which the ministry has also revised its carbon licensing rules for conservation areas this year.

Read the full regulation in the CRPG Law Database.

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