ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITS IN THE PANDEMIC TIME COVID-19 Prastiyo Triwibowo- Alvi Syahrin- Suhaidi- Ningrum Natasya Sirait
Universitas Sumatera Utara
Abstract
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of all the community is urgently needed to prevent pollution and environmental damage. An instrument for preventing damage to environmental pollution is an environmental permit listed in Article 1 number 35 of Law Number 32/2009 PPLH which is further regulated in Government Regulation Number 27/2012 concerning Environmental Permits, which equates environmental documents as environmental permits and businessman actors to have them. The problem is, how are the legal arrangement and the implementation of criminalization of businessman without environmental permits. The method used normative juridical. Research results, legal arrangements related to environmental permits are in Article 1 number 35 UUPPLH and Article 1 PP. No. 27/2012 that every person conducting business is required to conduct an amdal or UKL-UPL as a prerequisite for obtaining a business activity license and the implementation of criminalization of business actors without environmental permits has bring the perpetrator to court for not having an environmental permit. The conclusion is that every businessman is required to have an environmental permit so that there are no criminal violations in Article 109 and Article 116 of the UUPPLH that the punishment can be subject to criminal sanctions.
