Indonesian Constitutional Policies to Overcome Climate Crisis from Ecological Democracy Perspectives

¹ Faculty of Law, State University of Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia
² Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia

^* Corresponding author: hikamhulwanullah@unesa.ac.id

Abstract

The nature of such a global challenge as was posed by the caused for its constitutional protection by the State to enable access to an environment that is not harmful to health. This research seeks to examine Indonesian Constitution policy of climate crisis in perspective eco-democracy. It emphasizes two important things, the first is regarding state constitution role in dealing with climate crisis issue, that is how upmanage matters revisited by 1945 Constitution of Republic Indonesia also how towards public participation through ecological democracy being substance of affirmation accountability the state. The work is based partly on the normative-legal-and-statute-conceptual methodology. The findings from such an analysis show that, despite having enacted various environmental and climate regulations, there are only limited rooms for effectively achieving transparency, public participation, and law enforcement provisions. Ecological democracy also provides a schema of work, in which citizens become the weavers in drafting climate policy and its implementation, and cements state’s constitutional legitimacy and accountabilities for their progressions towards environmental sustainability.