URGENCY OF REGULATING LEGAL PROTECTION FOR FOREST AND LAND FIRE VICTIMS IN INDONESIA
URGENCY OF REGULATING LEGAL PROTECTION FOR FOREST AND LAND FIRE VICTIMS IN INDONESIA

Summary/Abstract: A good and healthy environment is a human and constitutional right for every Indonesian citizen (UUD NRI 1945). However, increasingly complex environmental problems continue to threaten human rights, such as cases of forest and land fires. The community is the most disadvantaged party due to the forest and land fires, ranging from environmental damage, healthy problems, delays in the learning process in schools, and other activities that have an impact on economic losses. In this case, the community cannot apply for restitution. The legal problem is that there is a void in norms governing the restitution process for victims affected by environmental crimes in general, including victims of forest and land fires. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the urgency of regulating legal protection for the victims, so that the position of victims of environmental crimes of forest and land fires is the same as victims of other crimes such as victims of violence, victims of terrorism, and victims of other acts of violence which regulated in Law Number 31 of 2014 concerning Amendments to Law number 13 of 2006 concerning the Protection of Witnesses and Victims. This study aims to examine the urgency of regulating legal protection in the form of restitution for forest and land fires victims. This research is normative legal research. The results of this study conclude that the urgency of regulating legal protection for victims affected by forest and land fires must be carried out. The restitution is given by considering the number of losses suffered by the affected victims.

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