Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian National Youth Committee or KNPI disclosed that the bureaucracy in the Environmental Affairs Ministry (KLH) should be eradicated which is not only in the field of regulatory reform.

"It is a must to reform bureaucracy in KLH. We believed that the ministry`s apparatus are still weak, and tend to be stagnant, there is no change in the human resources, they are weak, not authoritative, and tend to corrupt with the backing up a minimal systemic," Head of KNPI Environment Division, Heri Susanto said here Tuesday.

Regarding the regulatory aspect, on last September, the revision of Law No. 23/1997 on the Protection and Environmental Management (PPLH) which put an emphasis on strengthening environmental impact assessment (Amdal) to prevent environmental damage by increasing accountability, the application of the competency certification of Amdal document author, the application of legal sanctions for violators of Amdal, and Amdal as a primary requirement in obtaining environmental permits, had been approved.

In addition, the licensing problem has been strengthened by making the environment license as a prerequisite to run business activities, and the business can be stopped if the environmental license is revoked, Susanto said.

In terms of environmental law enforcement, regulatory officials and authorized users can instantly stop the violations in the field, civilian investigators can make arrests and detention and the investigation results then presented to the public prosecutor who coordinated with the police.

Even the authorized agency official who did not fit the environment and official procedures who did not carry out environmental monitoring tasks can also be convicted, he said.

"But we do not just need to reform legislation alone without being followed by reform of the bureaucracy, especially implementers and stakeholders on behalf of the state policy. Because it will hamper the achievement of the ideal aspired to as mandated by legislation itself," he cited.

So far, many regulations in the environmental field have been published, but their implementation is still far from the requirement, he added.(*)

Editor: B Kunto Wibisono
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