Regional Regulation of South Sulawesi Province no. 3 of 2022 concerning South Sulawesi Province Spatial Plan for 2022-2041.

This Regional Regulation, implementing the provisions of article 7A paragraph (1) of the Law no. 27 of 2007 concerning management of coastal zone and small islands, in its last amended version, provides for the drafting of a new Spatial Plan for South Sulawesi, in order to improve welfare of the community and achieve the development of the Region. The Regional Regulation concerns: land space; sea space; air space; spatial plan; sea; protected area; rural area; management of natural resources; urban area; the territorial and sea subdivision covered by the Plan. According to the Regulation, the Spatial Plan includes Policies based on sustainable utilisation of the space and concerns: development and economic growth of strategic areas; development and strengthening of the production system based on environmental sustainability; development of urban areas based on disaster mitigation; improvement of costal areas management; increasing the quality of infrastructure network services, including energy and water resources and preventing silting of lakes and reservoirs to maintain water capacity; preservation of protected areas and conservation of existing ecosystem, through control of potentially disturbing cultivation activities, rehabilitation of critical lands and soil; development of natural resources production centres, taking into account biodiversity; development of natural resources processing industrial zones supported by integrated industrial waste management; development of a network of water resources infrastructure to increase agricultural services.
Other matters covered by this Regulation concern: sea transportation network system, sea ports and fishing ports, shipping lanes; energy network system; oil and gas infrastructure network; hydroelectric power plants; development of renewable energy sources; water resources network system, including: irrigation, clean water system, flood control system, plan and construction of waterworks, dams and reservoirs; drinking water supply system; waste water management system; hazardous and toxic waste management; marine protected areas; cultural heritage areas; production forest area; fishery area and aquaculture activities; mining activities and mineral business. The second part of the Regulation provides for different types of funds of the main programme for the realisation of space utilisation in the various sectors and focuses on main programme’s indicators, including: vulnerability of the areas to climate change; safe utilisation of watercourses; activities allowed to increase safety of navigation; prohibited fishing tools, gears and methods; activities in line with environmental protection; land reforestation activities; habitat protection activities; land conversion from non-agricultural or abandoned land to agricultural land.