Updates of Water Environment
Governance in INDONESIAMINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTRYREPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
30 JANUARY 2024
THE 19TH ANNUAL MEETING IN HAYAMA JAPAN1

GOAL OF WATER ENVIRONMENTIMPROVING WATER QUALITY AND WATERSANITATION2

• SUPPORTING CONSERVATION AND REHABILITATION OF
INLAND SURFACE WATERSThe Institutional framework and stakeholder engagement inlandsurface waters in Indonesia is determined in the Government
Regulation No. 22 Year 2021 on Environment Protection andManagement Implementation.
• Protection and management water quality planning implemented
through water body inventory• Making and determination water standards• Calculating and determining the allocation of water pollution load
• Making and determination protection and management waterstandards plan3

WATER QUALITY STANDARD AND
EFFLUENT STANDARD
Water quality standard) Surface water (river, lake),groundwater, seawater  Government Regulation
Number 22 Year 2021
 Effluent standard  Industry and Domestic,
Examples: Ministry Decree No.15/2014, MinistryRegulation No.68/2016, Permen LHK No.16/2019 etc.

• Pollutant Parameters• Concentration eachpollutant parameters• Discharge rate
• Discharge Load

• Effluent concentration are concentrations of pollutants expressed interms of parts per million for wastewater discharged through outlet
pipes from publicly owned sewage treatment plants, industrial plants
and other types of effluents.
• An effluent standard sets the degree of reduction of a pollutant thatcan be achieved through the application of various levels oftechnology. An effluent limitation is a restriction on the amount of apollutant that can be released from a point source into a water body.

Implementation of GR (PP) 22/2021 articles 116, 133,134, 148 dan MR of MOEF (Permen LHK) No.5/2021(Annex II)• Discharge permit for New Discharger
 Stipulating Local Effluent Standard based on TMDL (total maximumdaily load)
 Stipulating Local Effluent Standard based on water quality standard If water quality standard of the receiving water body has been
exceeded, then should conduct reducing water pollution load fromother sources (Compensation)• Discharge permit for Existing Discharger• Revise of the existing effluent standard based on the new TMDLs if awaterbody can provide significant dilution/biodegradation then the water
quality standard can be set lower, thus resulting in a looser effluent standard
or vice versa..
• The stream standard is often set relative to the 'assimilative capacity' of awaterbody.

•In Indonesia, river and lake plays important roles in human life, for example, fortransportation, sanitation, economics inhabitants etc.

•

Based on our experiences, Indonesia is faced with exponential rising of water
demand and pollution due to growing population, expanding industrializationand economic growth, as well as increasing agricultural activities.

•The decline in environmental quality also remains a serious threat to ecosystemservices, particularly in the provision of water, which is critical for ensuring foodsecurity as one of the key to the survival of the people.

 Indonesia has almost 8,000 watersheds (Daerah Aliran Sungai [DAS]),which are managed in 131 river basins.
6• Fifteen river basin has been a priority for theGovernment of Indonesia, e.g., as announced in theMedium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 20202024
1.
2.
3.
4.

Asahan River and Toba Lake in North Sumatera
Siak River in Riau
Musi River in South Sumatera
Citarum, Cisadane and Ciliwung Rivers ih West Javaand Jakarta
5. Serayu and Bangawas Solo Rivers in Central Java
6. Brantas River in East Java
7. Kapuas River in West and Central Kalimantan
8. Saddang River in West and Central Sulawesi
9. Moyo River in West Nusa Tenggara
10. Limboto Lake dan Bone Bolango River in NorthSulawesi

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RESTORATION OF PRIORITY LAKES IN INDONESIAThe Indonesian government is committed to rescuing and restoring priority lakes
with the enactment of Presidential Decree Number 60 of 2021.

8WATER QUALITY MONITORING IN
INDONESIAONLIMOONLIMO is a water quality monitoring system in water bodies continuously
and in a network. The output is in the form of monitoring data and qualitystatus.

During 2015 - 2023, ONLIMO has been installed in 194 locations located in:

PARAMETER:TEMPERATURE,
CONDUCTIVITY,
TDS, DO, PH,TURBIDITY, DEPTH,NITRATE,AMMONIA,TSS,COD, BOD

ONLIMO Goals

Acquire correct, accurate, and open
information data in terms of monitoringwater quality in water bodies, water quality
status, as an early warning system, and asmaterial for determining water pollution
control policies.

MANUAL MONITORINGPARAMETERS• For Rivers
 pH, DO, BOD, COD, TSS, NO3 –N, Total Phosphate, and Fecal Colie

for Lakes, Reservoir and retention basin pH, DO, BOD, COD, TSS, Total Phosphate, brightness, Chlorophyl –a, Total Nitrogen and Fecal Coliforms

10Water Quality Index Achievement (2023)

Ministry Regulation No. 27 Year 2021
concerns Environmental Quality Indek
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Most of riparian areas in Indonesia used to be widely utilized as temporary domesticand construction waste dumping sites•Here we can see the example of Eco-riparian constructed in Citarum river basin in
Karawang Regency, West Java, Indonesia.

•This particular eco-riparian is situated in a densely populated housing complex; Thehousing complex did not have access to a centralized wastewater treatment.
This eco-riparian serving approximately 8000 people and have the capacity toreduce 34,03 tons of BOD per year.

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GR No. 22 year 2021 article 160
Community participation in environmental protection and management for water quality such as
Implementation Eco-riparian Programme for water body ecosystem recovery

 In order to improve water quality, environment quality improvement has been
carried out through various measures to control pollution and environmental
degradation, both by the central government and local governments, including
through regulating the water pollution load discharge into water bodies andbuilding water pollution management facilities, such as through Eco-riparianProgramme.
The objective of Eco-riparian development:
1.

To rehabilitate riparian functions to safeguard the habitats for wildlife.

2.

To provide green infrastructures which enhance eco-riparian functions as water
filtration, erosion control, and wastewater treatment.

3.

Capacity development for communities independently manage the eco-riparian
infrastructures14 The implementation of the eco-riparian program that focuses on
reducing domestic waste pollution through the joint treatment ofhousehold wastewater before being discharged into a water body.
 The program has been run since 2017 – 2023 at various locations suchas in Citarum River, Ciliwung River, Bengawan Solo River, and Lake Toba,etc.

EKORIPARIAN

8074,37064,060

11TERBANGUN
Built in 2017 - 2023
2017 - 2023

55,448,450
36,24027,8302420
10Served ofKKJUMLAHHouseholds
TERLAYANI

16.800264,68PENURUNAN
Decrease of BOD
BOD ton/year
Ton/Tahun

2621124,421 0,5414,231234UNIT

Penurunan Beban (BOD/TON/TH)

56789

ECORIPARIAN, DOMESTIC WWTP AND SMEs LOCATIONYEAR 2015 – 2023

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EKORIPARIAN MEGA REGENCY BEKASI

Effluent Standard for Domestic Waster Water
MOEF Regulation No.68/2016

unitMaxConcentration• Domestic wastewater is defined aswastewater generated from: apartments,accommodation, dormitories, healthservices, offices, commerce, markets,restaurants, meeting halls, recreation arenas,settlements, industry, regional WWTP,residential WWTP, urban WWTP, ports,
airports, train stations, terminals and prisons• The coverage, quantity and quality ofdomestic WWTP are far from adequate

Oil & Greece• There is no wastewater quality monitoringand performance’s O/M program for WWTP
provided by the government?
• Regulations requiring the treatment andcompliance of domestic wastewater quality
standards are in place but no monitoringand supervision has been carried out

Flow rate• However, since the enactment of theRegulation of the Minister of Environment
and Forestry No. 5 of 2021,
businesses/activities that generate domestic
wastewater are required to have an effluent
discharge permit from domestic wastewater

Thank you21