Landscapers in Bali

A landscaper designs and builds the outdoor part of the property: planting, lawns, paths, terraces, retaining walls, water features, lighting and drainage. In Bali most of the firms in this category are architects or builders who offer landscaping alongside the house; specialist garden firms also exist.

Two rules shape the work:

• Green area. PP 16/2021 defines the green area coefficient (KDH) as the share of the plot outside the building that is set aside for gardens or planting (Article 1). KDH is one of the density rules a building must follow (Article 22(1)), and the figure follows the regency’s detailed spatial plan (Article 22(3)). The plot’s figures are in the KRK, the regency’s statement of building rules for that location (Article 1). Ask for it before the layout is fixed, because areas that are paved or built over are not set aside for planting.
• Who may design and build. UU 2/2017 lists landscape architecture as a construction consultancy classification (Article 13(2)), and every business that carries out construction services must hold a business certificate, the SBU (Article 30(1)). The law has since been amended by the Job Creation legislation, so ask which certificates the firm holds today.

See also architects and builders and contractors.

• A planting plan and a hard landscape plan, with plant species, sizes and quantities.
• Hard works itemised: walls, paving, steps, decks, water features, lighting, irrigation, drainage.
• How the design meets the plot’s green area figure (KDH).
• Soil preparation, earthworks and removal of spoil.
• Who maintains the garden after handover, for how long, and what happens to plants that die in that period.
• A payment schedule tied to completed areas or stages.

• The firm’s NIB (business identification number), issued through OSS.
• SBU, if the firm carries out construction works such as walls, terraces or drainage. Check it in the LPJK business search (lpjk.pu.go.id).
• The KRK figures for your plot, including the KDH (PP 16/2021 Articles 1 and 22).
• Whether the outdoor works are in the PBG. The PBG covers the building and its supporting structures (“prasarana”) (PP 16/2021 Article 253(3)); ask your architect or permit agent whether retaining walls, pools or other outdoor structures need to be in the application.

• A design that paves or builds over the plot with no reference to the KDH figure.
• Retaining walls or earthworks on a slope with no engineer’s input.
• Plants priced as a single sum with no species, size or quantity.
• No plan for drainage.

We have no published sample of landscaping durations in Bali yet, so we give none. Ask the firm how long planting needs to establish, and how the works are sequenced with the builder’s.