Government Regulation No. 105 of 2015 amending Government Regulation No. 24 of 2010 on the use of forest areas.

This Government Regulation establishes the Second Amendment to Government Regulation No. 24 of 2010 concerning the Use of Forest Areas. It amends several articles on the arrangements on the type of activities, the obligations of the holder of the use permit for forest area, the procedure for the use of these areas, etc. In particular it amends the following issues: provisions on the use of forest areas for development purposes outside of forestry activities can only be undertaken for activities with inalienable strategic objectives. Development interests outside forestry activities as referred to in paragraph(1) (activities specified below). The use of forest area for development purposes other than forestry activities as referred to in Article 4 paragraph(2) shall be conducted based on the permit to use forest area. The holder of permit of borrow-to-use area of forest shall be obliged to do as follows: a. identify and determine the boundaries of location of the permit of borrow-to-use area of forest; b. provide the payment of State’s non-tax revenue for the utilization of area of forest; c. plant vegetation for the sake of rehabilitation of watersheds; d. handover the result of identification and determination of boundaries and to reforest the land area of compensation; f. reclaim and/or reforest the location of borrow-to-use area of forest that is no longer occupied, etc.
The use of forest areas with the purpose of development excluding the activities of forestry shall be allowed only for the activity with strategic goal, of which cannot be disregarded, as cited in paragraph(1), such as: a. religion; b. mining; c. installation of power generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity as well as the application of technology of new and renewable energy resources ; d. construction of telecommunications networks, stations of radio broadcasting, TV relay stations, and geo-station of outer-space observation; e. development of public roads, toll roads, and railway tracks; f. transportation that is not categorized as public transportation for the delivery of the result of production; g. development of dam, dyke, embankment, irrigation, passageway (drain) of potable water, sewage and sanitation, and other irrigation facilities; h. public facilities; i. industry in addition to primary industry of forest produces; j. defense and security; k . supporting infrastructure for public safety; l. shelter for the victims of natural disaster with temporary activity; or m certain agriculture for the sake of food and energy resilience.