Legal Policy of the Mineral and Coal Mining Law on the Criminalization Aspects of Mining Business Activities

Abstract

Legislation is a legal political product in Indonesia in the form of policy, and this is no exception in the case of Law Number 3 of 2020 (Mining Law). One of the articles that has attracted attention is Article 162, which is part of criminal sanctions. Starting from the limitations of rights and questions about the direction and purpose of the preparation of this law, this research discusses the legal political direction of mining criminalization in Indonesia based on the Mining Law and provides a legal analysis related to the direct imposition of criminal sanctions in Article 162. The method used to examine this issue indepth is the normative legal research method and employs a legal and conceptual approach.