RECONSTRUCTION OF REGULATION OF AUTHORITY TO PROSECUTE TASK UNIT FOR PREVENTION AND ERADICATION OF FOREST DAMAGE IN LAW NUMBER 18 OF 2013

Abstract

Various forms of forestry crimes, especially illegal logging crimes committed in the illegal use of timber forest products and other actions in the form of illegal use of forest areas, also contribute to forest degradation and deforestation in Indonesia. Efforts to preserve forest have been realized in Law Number 18 of 2013 concerning Prevention and Eradication of Forest Destruction, which has given authority to the government through the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the Regional Government where forest areas are located, as well as to the Institute for the Prevention and Eradication of Forest Destruction in the Law Number 18 of 2013, to carry out investigation activities up to the investigation of criminal acts of forest destruction as stipulated in Article 56 paragraph 1 letter a of Law Number 18 of 2013. The task force carries out strategic forest destruction eradication from investigation to prosecution throughout the territory of the Republic of Indonesia. Indonesia is included in the customs area at the behest of the head of the institution and/or deputies in accordance with the provisions of Article 55 paragraph 5. The authority to prosecute institutions and task forces is not in line. It contains legal implications with other laws, namely Law Number 16 of 2004 concerning the Attorney General's Office of the Republic of Indonesia and Law Number 17 of 2006 concerning Customs. Therefore, it is necessary to reconstruct the prosecution authority by the agency's task force for the Prevention and Eradication of Forest Destruction in Law Number 18 of 2013.

Keywords

• reconstruction
• authority
• prosecution
• the task force for the prevention and eradication of forest destruction