Reclamation and Post-Mining as an Obligation of Mining Business Actors to Protect the Community

Abstract

Coal is a natural resource contained in the earth, and is controlled by the state for the greatest prosperity of all Indonesian people. State control over coal is stated in Article 33 paragraph (3) of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic Indonesia. Coal is a mining excavation that has great potential in contributing to state foreign exchange, and has an important meaning in improving the welfare of the community. Coal is a non-renewable natural resource, so its management must be based on the principle of caution, transparency and consideration of economic interests and the preservation of environmental functions in accordance with its designation. To realize this principle, mining management must be equipped with a mining business permit, which is attached to the obligation for mining business actors to carry out reclamation and post-mining as an effort to maintain environmental functions in accordance with its designation, and at the same time protect the community from the dangers of former mining excavations.