Unlicensed Mining as an Alternative Policy: Valuable Experiences in Southeast Sulawesi and East Java

• Main Authors: Sudiro Ahmad, Redi Ahmad, Adhari Ade, Rachman Mardiana
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 2018-01-01
• Series: E3S Web of Conferences
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20186803016

Unlicensed mining has been a worldwide issue, including several regions in Indonesia, such as Southeast Sulawesi Province and East Java. The issue that will be examined in this paper is the policies to overcome the unlicensed mining in Southeast Sulawesi Province and East Java. In order to answer the issue, the type of research is socio-legal, by using the primary data in the form of interview result and secondary data in the form of documents the data were obtained from field study and study of literature. The research result shows that the effort to overcome the unlicensed mining by the Government of Southeast Sulawesi Province and East Java are different. The Government of Southeast Sulawesi Province applies the alternative policies such as the unlicensed mining control, aside from the law enforcement policy conducted by the police, prosecutor, and court. This differs from the Government of East Java which views that the law enforcement policy as the only means to overcome unlicensed mining. Unlicensed mining control conducted in Southeast Sulawesi could be an alternative policy since it delivers benefit such as the gaining of valid data of the unlicensed mining location, increasing the community awareness, as the instrument to protect the environment and so forth.