Performance Allowance Rules for Forestry Ministry Staff: PERMENHUT 5/2026

The Minister of Forestry has issued Peraturan Menteri Kehutanan Republik Indonesia Nomor 5 Tahun 2026 tentang Tata Cara Pemberian Tunjangan Kinerja Bagi Pegawai di Lingkungan Kementerian Kehutanan (Regulation of the Minister of Forestry No. 5 of 2026 on Procedures for Granting Performance Allowances to Employees within the Ministry of Forestry). The regulation sets out who is entitled to the performance allowance, the two components against which the payable amount is measured, and the deductions that apply when an employee falls short of the attendance or performance standard.

Issue

The performance allowance, or tunjangan kinerja, is a supplementary payment made to central government institutions on the basis of their bureaucratic reform results. Because the payment is conditional rather than automatic, each ministry must publish the mechanics of how entitlement is assessed and how much is withheld when conditions are not met. PERMENHUT 5/2026 supplies that mechanism for the Ministry of Forestry, a ministry that was separated from the combined environment and forestry portfolio during the 2024 cabinet reorganisation carried out under the amended Ministries Law. The regulation applies to civil servants and contract-based government employees alike, and reaches employees appointed to a position and working full time within a Ministry work unit.

Key Provisions

Pasal 1 supplies the definitions the rest of the text depends on. It defines Pegawai ASN to cover both civil servants (PNS) and government employees on work agreements, and defines Pegawai as ASN employees and other staff appointed to a position and working full time in a Ministry organisational unit. The same article defines Kelas Jabatan, the job class that establishes the base rate, and Sasaran Kinerja Pegawai (SKP), the annual performance expectation against which output is measured. It also defines acting appointments, distinguishing Pelaksana Tugas (Plt.), appointed where the substantive officeholder is permanently absent, from Pelaksana Harian (Plh.), appointed where the absence is temporary. Flexible working, defined as Fleksibilitas Kerja, is recognised as a method of performing official duties with variation in location or hours.

Pasal 11 establishes the two assessment components: performance achievement and attendance discipline. For the first, the calculation is based on the SKP achievement score for the quarter under assessment, which carries a performance predicate graded across five levels, from sangat baik (very good) through baik, butuh perbaikan, and kurang to sangat kurang (very poor).

Pasal 13 fixes the attendance baseline. The working week runs five days, Monday to Friday, and totals 37 hours and 30 minutes excluding rest breaks. Entry time is 07:30 local time, with the day ending at 16:00 from Monday to Thursday and at 16:30 on Friday; the rest break runs from 12:00 to 13:00 Monday to Thursday and from 11:30 to 13:00 on Friday. Pasal 14 allows departure from that baseline for work units whose duties are of a special character, subject to determination by the Echelon I unit head with the approval of the Secretary General, and adjusts hours for employees on education, training, or study assignment financed by the Ministry or a sponsor. Pasal 15 permits the working day and working hours to be varied where a Presidential policy applies for Ramadan, national holidays, nationally applicable collective leave, or other policies.

Pasal 25 sets the deduction scale for late arrival or early departure. Lateness of one to 30 minutes attracts a deduction of 0.5 per cent; 31 to 60 minutes attracts 1 per cent; 61 to 90 minutes attracts 1.25 per cent; and lateness beyond 90 minutes attracts 1.5 per cent. Where a force majeure condition is determined by the Secretary General, the resulting lateness or absence is not counted as an attendance discipline breach.

Implications

The regulation ties a portion of employee income to two independently measured variables, so a quarter with a strong SKP predicate can still yield a reduced payment where attendance records show accumulated lateness. Work units with duties of a special character, including technical implementation units in the field, must obtain Secretary General approval before operating on hours other than the standard schedule, which places the approval trail rather than local practice at the centre of any later audit. For employees on study assignment, the alignment of hours to the training schedule removes the standard attendance measure from the calculation.

Regulatory Context

PERMENHUT 5/2026 sits within the internal administrative rules the Ministry of Forestry has issued since assuming a standalone portfolio, alongside its programme direction set out in the 2025-2029 ministry strategic plan. It governs the employment relationship inside the Ministry rather than the forestry sector it regulates.

Read the full regulation in the CRPG Law Database.

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