IMPACT OF MERAPI SAND MINING IN KLATEN CENTRAL JAVA

Abstract

In the general explanation of Law No. 4 of 2009 on Mineral and Coal Mining it is
outlined that the Basic Law 1945 Article 33 paragraph (3) affirms the earth, water, and
natural wealth contained therein is controlled by the state and used for the great
prosperity of the people. In this study, the authors examined how environmental
damage impacts the merapi sand mining in Klaten. The research method used in this
study is empirical legal research, where in empirical research emphasizes more on the
symptoms and consequences that occur based on the field, or in another sense this
study uses observation methods as primary data to see how the law in action goes.
From the results of the research obtained that the impact of merapi sand mining in the
central java klaten is the first impact on the damage of agricultural land, plantation land
that certainly threatens the availability of land for future generations of farmers that
will certainly have an impact on food availability, secondly damaging evacuation routes
and thirdly disrupting water content, ecology, landslide prone.