Environmental Damage in Indonesian Forests
Hello, friends of nature, the execution process of forest and land fires can be a bad precedent for civil law enforcement, especially environmental cases.
It does not rule out the possibility, other civil cases can follow the same trick, which is playing with the administration of justice, if this case never gets the firmness of the Supreme Court as the highest authority of the Judiciary.
This was learned from the execution of PT Kallista Alam's forest and land fires in Meulaboh.
Responding to this problem, at least there are two important things that must be done by KLHK.
First, must be prepared to immediately submit an application for execution to the first level court after the decision is legally binding.
A slow response will contribute to the duration of execution.
Second, tracking assets against companies that will be sued.
Asset tracking is a "progressive" action that must be taken to ensure that the company being sued is able to pay or be responsible according to the value of the environmental loss claim.
It should be understood that if referring to Minister of Environment Regulation 7/2014, there are four types of environmental losses, the first is the loss due to exceeding environmental quality standards, the second is the cost of disputes, the third is the cost of mitigation or recovery, and the fourth is the loss of ecosystems.
These four items are usually calculated as environmental losses in KLHK's lawsuit.
However, the most priority item for environmental recovery is the loss of costs for handling and / or recovery.
And the most relevant is the loss of ecosystems.