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Water and Sanitation Bill Enters Committee Drafting

The Badan Legislasi took the water and sanitation bill from expert consultation into committee drafting on 24 August 2026, after twenty-six recorded sessions.

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Regulatory digest Published 26 September 2026 Machine-drafted
Water and Sanitation Bill Enters Committee Drafting

The Badan Legislasi held a plenary session on RUU tentang Pengelolaan Air Minum dan Sanitasi — the Water Supply and Sanitation Management Bill — on 24 August 2026, with the agenda recorded as Penyempurnaan Rumusan, the refinement of drafting. The session is the third entry under Penyusunan oleh Komisi/Baleg/Anggota, the stage at which a committee rather than the expert body holds the pen. Under Peraturan DPR 1/2020 on Tata Tertib, read together with Peraturan DPR 2/2020 on the formation of laws, that stage sits inside penyusunan, the second of the five stages of law-making that UU 12/2011 sets out (Pasal 1 angka 1).

RUU tentang Pengelolaan Air Minum dan SanitasiUsul: DPR — inisiatif DPR — no Surpres, and the Presiden supplies the DIM (Pasal 68(3))PerencanaanProlegnasPenyusunanDrafting & harmonisationPembahasanTingkat I & IIPengesahanApproval & signaturePengundanganState gazetteFive stages of law-making — UU 12/2011 Pasal 1 angka 1. 29 dated entries on the record, 2026-01-30 to 2026-08-24.Tahapan reached (DPR SIMASLEG)Dukungan BKD2026-01-30–2026-03-11Komisi/Baleg/Anggota2026-06-22–2026-08-24Inside Pembahasan — UU 12/2011 Pasal 67–69pengantar musyawarahpembahasan DIMpendapat miniTingkat I sits in rapat komisi, gabungan komisi, Baleg, Banggar or Pansus (Pasal 67a). The DIM comes from the Presiden (Pasal 68(3)).Tingkat II is the paripurna — laporan, persetujuan per fraksi, pendapat akhir Presiden (Pasal 69(1)). DPD joins Tingkat I only, and only on its own subjects (Pasal 65(3)).Documents on the recordNarsum0/21 readablePem0/5 readableLS0/2 readableNU0/1 readableA dashed border means DPR publishes the reference but the file does not resolve — the record names it, we could not read it.No Naskah Akademik appears, though Pasal 43(3) requires one — which may mean it exists unpublished rather than that it was never made.Sittings — every one recorded, open or closedkonsultasi-p15diskusi-paka10pleno2rdpu1other1Sifat rapat: 0 terbuka, 0 tertutup, 29 not stated. Every DPR meeting is open unless that meeting itself declares otherwise (Tatib Pasal 276(1), 277(3)), so this is never inferred from the meeting type.A closed sitting stays on the record. Its risalah may be published (Pasal 302(3)), obtainable on written request (302(5)), or withheld (302(4)). Only a terbuka sitting licenses quoting a named individual.No statutory clock is running: the record shows no Surpres, no usul DPR ditetapkan, and no persetujuan bersama.
Position of RUU tentang Pengelolaan Air Minum dan Sanitasi in the law-making process, from DPR's published record. 29 dated entries, 2026-01-30 to 2026-08-24.

The bill's published track record runs to twenty-nine dated entries. The first is 30 January 2026, when a Naskah Urgensi was registered — a statement of why the bill is needed, filed before the academic manuscript itself. Twenty-five further entries then fall under Dukungan Penyusunan oleh BKD, the support stage in which the Badan Keahlian prepares the academic text and the draft. Those twenty-five are not procedural formalities: they are expert discussions and public consultations held between 25 February and 11 March 2026, including public consultations in Solo and Banten, with counterparts including IPB, ITB, a university law faculty, provincial water agencies, and the national association of water utilities.

Three entries carry the committee stage. On 22 June 2026 the Badan Legislasi met in plenary with the agenda recorded as a presentation by the Head of the Badan Keahlian, and the record names the Kepala Badan Keahlian Setjen DPR RI among those present. On 8 July 2026 the committee held a Rapat Dengar Pendapat Umum — a public hearing — with the chair of PERPAMSI, the association of Indonesian water utilities, among those invited. The 24 August session follows.

Twenty-nine documents are attached to those sessions: twenty-one sets of Bahan Narasumber, five of Bahan Pemerintah, two Laporan Singkat summarising the June and July sittings, and the January Naskah Urgensi. No draft of the bill text itself appears in the record, and no Naskah Akademik has been filed as a document. What the record shows is the process, not yet the text.

None of the twenty-nine documents is currently retrievable. Every file link DPR publishes for this bill returns a not-found response from its document server, as do the other two hundred and four files dated 2026 across the bills this tracker follows. Older material is unaffected: of the documents dated 2015 to 2024, three hundred and sixty of three hundred and sixty-two resolve normally. The gap is specific to the current year, and it means the sessions above can be cited by date, agenda and participant, but the papers tabled at them cannot yet be read.

What the record does not show is equally worth stating. It carries no plenary decision adopting the bill as a DPR initiative, which is the step that would move it from penyusunan into pembahasan and open the formal negotiation of the text clause by clause. It carries no Daftar Inventarisasi Masalah, the matrix in which each fraction and the government record what they want changed in each article; DPR publishes no document category for those at all. It records no votes: no decision on the bill has yet been recorded.

Every date, agenda line, participant name and document title above is taken from DPR's own published track record for this bill, retrieved on 26 September 2026.

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Correction (27 September 2026): this post was checked against the primary sources and corrected. Changes: 2 minor corrections of detail. Report errors to contact@crpg.id.

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