(Review article*) Lost Role of Local Governments in Coal Mining Licensing and Management Environment in Indonesia

Abstract

This study to describe implications of the enactment of Law Number 11 of 2020 concerning Job Creation (UU Omnibus Law) related to Regional Powers in environmental management as regulated in Law Number 32 of 2009 concerning Environmental Protection and Management (UU 32/2009). This study also seeks to describe the impact of the enactment of Law Number 3 of 2020 concerning Mineral and Coal Mining on the authority of coal mining permits for local governments. From the results of the study it was found that there were several articles that had the potential to threaten and degrade the power of local governments in terms of environmental management and protection which previously according to Law 32/2009 was jointly accepted by the central government in the form of coordination, while in the Omnibus Law there are options where the permit from the management of environmental utilization will be carried out through the central government or local government. The degradation the authority of local governments in mineral and coal mining permits can be seen where the removal of the authority for mineral and coal mining permits by the regions in Law No. 3 of 2020 concerning Mineral and Coal Mining.