Regulation Watch · Property and Construction · Klungkung Regency, Bali. The current 2024–2044 RTRW identifies approximately 2,435 hectares of sustainable food-agriculture area in Banjarangkan, Dawan and Klungkung districts.
Klungkung Protects 2,435 Hectares From Land Conversion
Klungkung Regional Regulation 5/2026 treats food-farming land identified in the current spatial plan as protected pending formal designation, prohibits private conversion, and exposes incompatible projects to permit cancellation, closure, demolition and land restoration.
- Published
- Established and promulgated on 5 August 2026 in the Klungkung Regency Gazette 2026 No. 5. Klungkung JDIH published the signed instrument online on 24 September 2026.
- Effective
- 5 August 2026, the date of promulgation. Transitional Article 45 immediately treats food-agriculture land data already established in spatial-planning documents as protected agricultural land until formal designation under the regulation.
- Added to Watch
- 25 September 2026
Who is affected
Owners, prospective buyers, landlords and tenants of land in Banjarangkan, Dawan and Klungkung; PT PMA and PT PMDN investors; developers, lenders, notaries and land advisers; hotels, villas, restaurants, warehouses, housing and commercial projects; farmers, customary and village stakeholders; contractors and businesses seeking KKPR, environmental, PBG, subdivision or operating approvals on or near agricultural land.
Practical impact
Land treated or formally designated as Lahan Pertanian Pangan Berkelanjutan (LP2B) must be used for its agricultural purpose and may not be converted for a private development. Klungkung's 2024–2044 RTRW already identifies about 2,435 hectares of Kawasan Pertanian Pangan Berkelanjutan across Banjarangkan, Dawan and Klungkung, and the new transitional rule gives the spatial-plan data immediate protected status pending parcel-level designation. Only public-interest, national-strategic-project or disaster-related conversion can proceed under the stated exception and applicable national law, with a strategic feasibility study, conversion plan, acquisition of the owner's rights, replacement land and public disclosure. The public may object to incompatible development and seek permit cancellation and a construction stop.
Klungkung Regional Regulation 5/2026 was established and promulgated on 5 August 2026 and took effect immediately. Klungkung JDIH posted the signed instrument online on 24 September. It creates the regency framework for planning, designating, using, supervising and preventing conversion of sustainable food-agriculture land, known as LP2B.
The rule is immediately relevant even though the parcel-level designation process is still to be completed. Transitional Article 45 states that food-agriculture land data already established in spatial-planning documents is treated as LP2B until formally designated under the new regulation. Klungkung Regional Regulation 1/2024, the current 2024–2044 RTRW, identifies approximately 2,435 hectares of sustainable food-agriculture area across Banjarangkan, Dawan and Klungkung. It also restricts the KP2B overlay to food farming, horticulture, productivity measures and supporting activities, with only narrow conditional uses.
Formal designation requires public outreach, an inventory of willing owners, owner agreement recorded in a signed instrument and coordination through village, district and regency levels. That future process does not erase the transitional rule. A project team should therefore verify the precise parcel and overlay with the competent authority rather than assume that the absence of a new LP2B certificate or separate map means the parcel is unrestricted.
Once land is treated or designated as LP2B, its owner must use it according to the agricultural allocation, prevent irrigation damage and help maintain soil fertility, land condition and the environment. If non-compliance damages the agricultural land, the owner must repair it. Controls operate through spatial-use conformity, licensing and supervision, while the regency must make land status, location, ownership or control and other core data available through an integrated public information system.
Private conversion is prohibited. The exception covers public-interest needs, national strategic projects and disaster-related action under the applicable legal framework. For a public-interest conversion, the regulation requires a strategic feasibility study, a conversion plan, acquisition of the owner's rights, replacement land, public transparency and community involvement. The replacement ratio is at least three-to-one for irrigated land, two-to-one for reclaimed swamp land and one-to-one for non-irrigated land.
Enforcement can directly affect a development. Administrative measures include temporary work or public-service suspension, closure, permit revocation or cancellation, demolition of an illegal building and restoration of the land's agricultural function. Community members also have an express right to object to development that conflicts with the protected-land plan and to seek permit cancellation and a stop to construction. A prohibited conversion followed by failure to restore the land can proceed under the criminal provisions of applicable law.
The regency has until 5 August 2028 to adjust land data, mapping, the information system and incentive mechanisms. That deadline is for government implementation, not a two-year grace period for developers. Investors should treat the existing RTRW overlay as a present due-diligence and permitting constraint and require coordinate-based confirmation before land commitments or construction expenditure.
Required action
- Before buying, leasing, financing or designing a project, overlay the parcel coordinates and certificate against the official Klungkung RTRW map, RDTR or KKPR data and the regency's LP2B information; do not rely only on the certificate description, broker statement, existing building or nearby development.
- Obtain written spatial confirmation from the competent Klungkung authority where a parcel is within or close to a food-crop or KP2B overlay, and make land acquisition, lease, financing and construction contracts conditional on acceptable KKPR and parcel-level LP2B status.
- Pause any non-agricultural works on land treated or designated as LP2B until the authority confirms a lawful basis. A private villa, hotel, housing, warehouse or other commercial conversion is not within the regulation's public-interest exception.
- For an eligible public-interest or national-strategic-project conversion, prepare the strategic feasibility study, conversion plan, land-right acquisition, public consultation and replacement-land package before conversion. Replacement land is at least three times the area for irrigated land, twice for reclaimed swamp land and the same area for non-irrigated land.
- Owners of protected parcels should continue agricultural use, prevent irrigation damage, maintain soil and environmental condition, and keep evidence of farming, irrigation maintenance and any authority-approved activity; damage caused by non-compliance must be repaired.
- Re-screen active permits, land banks and projects approved or acquired before 5 August 2026. Record any mismatch between the project, spatial approval and protected-land data and obtain corrective advice before further payment, construction, marketing or financing drawdown.