The Urgency of Implementing the Limitation of Investigation of Forestry Crimes to Achieve Just Forestry Criminal Justice
This study aims to analyze and criticize the implementation of forestry law enforcement, especially the forestry criminal investigation process as regulated in Article 39 of the P3H Law. Which requires investigators to complete the investigation process within 60 days of the investigation's commencement, with the possibility of an extension of up to 30 days if the findings are not final, the public prosecutor has a maximum of 20 days to complete the inquiry, with a 30-day extension possible. Among the issues with this study are how the execution and urgency of the Application of the Investigation Limitation in Forestry Crimes with justice. Normative legal research is the methodology employed. Concludes, for the sake of legal certainty, the urgency of applying the investigation limitation in the P3H Law as Article 39 must be implemented to realize peace, legal certainty and justice, although it does not explicitly regulate its implementation. Suggestions, it is hoped that the legislators of the Legislative Body (DPR) and the President will revise Law No. 18 of 2013 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of Forest Destruction, by adding one paragraph to Article 39, namely letter f, which states that if the provisions in letters a, b and c in this article are not fulfilled for the sake of legal certainty, it is declared to have expired.
Authors
- Helmi Helmi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3868-604X)
- Fitra Syawal Harahap (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4897-7086)
- Elly Sudarti
Institutions
- Universitas Jambi (ID)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Formosa Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
- Published
- 2025-09-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.55927/fjmr.v4i9.491
- Primary Topic
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00