complete regulation in the forestry sector, Law
Number 18 Year 2013 concerning Prevention and
Eradication of Forest Destruction is also established.
Forest damage such as illegal logging is a form
of crime on forest resources that must be stopped
based on Law Number 18 of 2013 concerning
Prevention and Eradication of Forest Crime Acts.
This law reflects the continuity of ecology, social
functions of forests, unlicensed mining, and
plantations without permits have caused state losses,
damage to socio-cultural and environmental life, and
increased global warming which has become a
national, regional and international issue. This is
related to the characteristics of forest destruction
which has become a crime that has extraordinary,
organized, and transnational impacts carried out with
a sophisticated modus operandi, which threatens the
survival of people's lives.
Seeing the threat of forest destruction that has
continued since the issuance of the forest
management policy by Law Number 5 of 1967
concerning Principal Provisions of Forestry up to the
birth of Law Number 41 of 1999 concerning
Forestry, amid strong efforts made by the
government to protect forest resources, a
management system is needed that can answer the
three basic characteristics of the State's
responsibility, namely the management of forest
resources for the greatest prosperity of the people,
forest management is guaranteed by the state, the
people have the right to a clean and healthy
environment, and the state prevents damage or
pollution of forest resources.
One of the problems that arose as a result of the
failure of the principle of state responsibility to be
applied was the birth of the community's need for
the true meaning of the phrase "controlled by the
state" over natural resources, including forests. The
Constitutional Court, through Decision Number 001-
021-022 / PUU-I / 2003, provides an interpretation
of the phrase "controlled by the state" in Article 33
of the 1945 Constitution:
The words" controlled by the state "must be
interpreted to encompass the meaning of state
control in the broadest sense which originates and
comes from the concept of the sovereignty of the
Indonesian people over all sources of wealth" earth
and water and the natural wealth contained in the
world ", including the meaning of public ownership.
By the collectivity of the people on the sources of
wealth in question. The people collectively
constructed by the 1945 Constitution give the state
the mandate to carry out policies (belied) and
management actions (bestuursdaad), regulations
(regelendaad), management (beheersdaad) and
supervision (toezichthoudensdaad) for the greatest
prosperity of the people.
The interpretation of the Constitutional Court
with this understanding was also given by the
Constitutional Court in the Constitutional Court
Decision Number 3 / PUU-VIII / 2010 concerning
the testing of Law Number 27 of 2007 concerning
Management of Coastal Areas and Small Islands. In
its ruling, the Constitutional Court concluded that
the granting of Coastal Water Concession Rights
(HP3) contradicted the right to control the state as
referred to in Article 33 paragraph (3) of the 1945
Constitution which stated that supervision for the
greatest prosperity of the people.
The decision of the Constitutional Court provides
guidance on how to implement the concept of state
control over natural resources. The state in control
over natural resources has a function to make
policies, management, regulation, management and
supervision. Based on the consideration of the
Constitutional Court in interpreting the meaning of
"control by the state" of natural resources, obtained
information that the 1945 Constitution of the
Republic of Indonesia adheres to the understanding
that "control by the state" is a collective decision of
the Indonesian people to hand over the management
of natural resources to the state as a consequence of
the existence of a country that in the course of the
history of the Indonesian nation has replaced similar
state entities such as kingdoms, unions, villages and
indigenous groups that have a long history of
descending on natural resources.
The idea of rationalism, which developed in the
17th century, tried to explain the origin of the
coming of state life. Starting from this understanding
of rationalism, the 'social contract' is a construction
in the realm of thought, with its function as a
rationale, reason of existence about the existence of
state life, and not as a description of an event in
history.
On the principle, 'social contract' is a fiction, the
result of theorizing in the realm of thought, that the
formation of a state of life organization, along with
its governmental institutions, comes from the
rational willingness of the people to release some of
their basic natural rights of freedom, for the sake of
living jointly orderly. This social contract theory
implies the existence of a moral basis for
justification that the power of the state officials
originates not from any source except from the
consent of the people. The people's attachment to all
forms of rules that are enforced by the officials of
state power, thus, will be interpreted as an