Decentralising Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in Indonesia

1. Decentralising Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in Indonesia ILYAS ASAAD Deputy Minister for Environmental Compliance Ministry of the Environment, Indonesia

2. Background The1945 Constitution Article 18 (1): The unitary state of the Republic of Indonesia shall be divided into provinces and those provinces shall be divided into districts and municipalities, each of which shall have regional authorities which shall be regulated by law Article 18 (5): The regional authorities shall exercise wide ranging autonomy, except in matters specified by law to be the affairs of the central government

3. Decentralisation Mouvement Act No.32 of 2004 on Local Government (replacing act No.22 of 1999) • Governmental power is decentralised from central government to local government • Province, District and Municipality are placed as equals as independent autonomous regional units. • Environmental management authority is required to be decentralised to each regional government

4. Environmental Management Act 1997 ‘integration’ as the leading concept for environmental management Article 12 …to create integration and harmony in theimplementation of national policy regardingenvironmental management, the government based legislation can: a.delegate certain environmental managementauthority to central government offices inthe regions b.give a role to region government to assist thecentral government in the implementation ofenvironmental management in the regions

5. Relation pattern between Central and Regions on environmental compliance & enforcement Based on the EMA 1997 • Coordinated by the Minister of the Environment • The Minister may give authority on environmental compliance and enforcement to regions based on decentralisation principle (central authority will be run by the central offices in regions) Based on the Act 32/2004 on Local Government • Environmental law enforcement affairs are a part of environmental control affairs which are obligatory affairs running by local governments.

6. Compliance and enforcement authority

7. Benefit of decentralisation on environmental protection • Local institutions and people have a better knowledge of the environmental & socioeconomic problems of the area and therefore are place to enhance & protect the environment if they are given clear rights on natural resources • Higher responsibility in decision making will be accompanied by higher motivation for a more efficient use of natural resources • Facilitating local participation because of the higher homogeneity of common needs with lower sizes of population, higher transparency of the decision making process • Allowing building of local capacities for the provision of services that are more consistent with the local requirements.

8. Problems in implementing decentralisation on environmental law compliance and enforcement • Authority  There is no clear authority distribution in handling environmental cases among MoE, provinces, and regencies/municipalities; • Coordination  There is no compatibility on environmental law compliance and enforcement programmes between central and regional government; • Human Resources  capacity and quantity of HRs as the Environmental Inspectors & the Specialised Investigators are limited. • Goodwill  indicator of success of region governments is increasing of revenue, NOT environmental protection

9. Concept of environmental law compliance and enforcement development in Regions • Establishing institution with clear role distribution • Developping regional regulations on environment based on regional needs by good norm and good process principles • Optimalising PPNS,PPLH (recruitment system, quantity, distribution, capacity) • Establishing One Roof Enforcement System (ORES) • Increasing capacity of enforcers • Optimalising implementation of administration sanctions by providing guidance and criteria of administrative punishment • Secondline enforcement

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