State’s Responsibility for Law Enforcement over Forest Fires in Indonesia (A Case Study on Forest Fires in Riau and Kalimantan
- DOI
- 10.2991/icils-18.2018.46How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- state’s responsibility; law enforcement; forest fire
- Abstract
In 2018, both Riau and Kalimantan account for the highest number of forest fire incidences in Indonesia. This massively has impacts on society, environment, and economy. Arson done by big companies seems to be one of the contributing factors for the sake of economy. This research is aimed to analyse the state’s responsibility for law enforcement over incidence of arson by companies due to economic reasons. Socio-legal research method is involved in this research with statute, conceptual, and case approach. The research result reveals that the government has at least issued 4 laws to give sanctions to any companies involved in the arson, involving the Law of Forestry, Plantation, Environmental Protection and Management, and Criminal Code. Moreover, the state is responsible for playing a main role in doing preventive and repressive actions towards the corporate that infringe the law, in which the preventive action involves forming the system responsible for control on forest fire which takes the participation of society. Repressive action, however, could be performed by sycnhronisation, harmonisation, and enforcement of laws and enquiries, forming a special court dealing with forest fire criminal act, and improvement of the regional government’s and law enforcers’ commitment. It is compulsory for the government to detain parties intentionally involved in forest arson.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Rachmad Syafa'at AU - Arin Liemanto PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - State’s Responsibility for Law Enforcement over Forest Fires in Indonesia (A Case Study on Forest Fires in Riau and Kalimantan BT - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Indonesian Legal Studies (ICILS 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 247 EP - 250 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icils-18.2018.46 DO - 10.2991/icils-18.2018.46 ID - Syafa'at2018/07 ER -