Legal Responsibility For Forest Fire In Indonesia To The International Community

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Fajar Khaify Rizky , Suhaidi , Alvi Syahrin , Jelly Leviza

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This article aims to examine the basic principles of international law that underlie state accountability and state responsibility for forest and land fires in Indonesia that because transboundary air pollution based on international law. The direct impacts of forest and land fires include the emergence of ARI disease, disruption of transportation and socio-economic losses. Environmental problems and even then continue to grow and expand, if in the past the problem of environmental pollution and environmental damage was still a local problem, now it has become a transnational problem. As a result of the impact of forest and land fires that occurred in Indonesia, the Indonesian state is responsible for the impact of transboundary haze. In international law, responsibility is one of the fundamental principles and one of the important guidelines and looks for the characteristics of the existence of international law. State responsibility is contained in Principle 21 of the 1972 Stockholm Declaration which explains based on the United Nations Charter and principles of international law the state's responsibility to ensure that activities under its jurisdiction or control do not cause environmental damage to other countries or areas outside the boundaries of national jurisdiction. State activities in international relations are sometimes not free from mistakes, so regarding the impact of transboundary air pollution, it will relate to the concept of state responsibility and the principles that underlie the state's responsibility in international law. The research method used is a normative juridical research method and literature search.

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