PENEGAKAN HUKUM TERHADAP PENCEMARAN LIMBAH CAIR DI KOTA SURAKARTA

Abstract

The study about liquid waste that contamined the rivers in Surakarta City
is important to be done. Due to many daily activities of people in Surakarta, that
product the waste, contains domestic waste or industry waste. According to the
law, any activities that produce the waste without cultivation or dispose the waste
over the quality standarts was threatened by law punishment. This study focus on
the reality of law enforcement and its resistances.
This study use the Juridical normative approach, that the fact of law
enforcement will be reviewed by legal point of view especially the Law Number
32 of 2009 on Environmental Protection and Management.
This study results some conclutions, they are; the law enforcement on
liquid waste disposal not as expected, and it is can be seen with comparison
between the threat of criminal punishment in the Law and the number of waste
disposal cases that be solved in the High Court of Surakarta. And the resistances
of law enforcement this law, are; a) humanity factor (related to micro and small
industries that dispose the liquid waste due to the financial cost in making the
sewage treatment plant/IPAL). b) infrastructure factor (related to the lack of
IPAL, especialy in grey water). c) economy policy (related to consideration of
government in increasing of employees or investments). d) law factor (related to
the lack of environment law breaker that punished by the court), e) history factor
(the fact of the waste disposal have be done by people since decades ago).
Psicology factor (the general tendency of human is the avoiding the new prolem).
Keyword: Contamination, Liquid Waste, Rivers, Surakarta