Registration of Horticultural Plant Varieties

Minister of Agriculture Regulation No. 38/Permentan/OT.140/7/2011 on Registration of Horticultural Plant Varieties (“Regulation”) has been issued to improve the development of horticulture in Indonesia. The Regulation implements Articles 58 (3), 59 (3), and 60 (3) of Law No. 13 of 2010 on Horticulture (“Law 13/2010”), which mandated the issuance of a ministerial regulation on registering new and existing cultivars.

The Regulation consists of seven chapters, 24 articles, and one appendix.

Article 1 defines the terms that are used throughout the Regulation. The terms are, among others, Horticultural Plants (as elaborated on in Article 1 (2)); Variety Registration (as elaborated on in Article 1 (4)); Variety Validity Examination (as elaborated on in Article 1 (5)); Horticultural Plant Varieties (as elaborated on in Article 1 (7)); and plant variety registration receipt (tanda daftar varietas, as elaborated on in Article 1 (16)).