Tinjauan Kritis atas RUU Konservasi Keanekaragaman Hayati dan Ekosistem

This volume compiles critical analyses from multiple scholars and practitioners on Indonesia's draft bill revising the Law on Conservation of Natural Biological Resources (the existing 1990 law). The contributors — including Bimantara Adjie Wardhana, Kasmita Widodo, Cristina Eghenter, Dahniar Andriani, Tandiono Bawor Purbaya, Jusupta Tarigan, and others — each examine a different dimension of the draft legislation, offering expert critiques from legal, ecological, indigenous rights, and governance perspectives.

Key chapters address the urgency of formally recognising AKKMs (community conservation areas) in the revised law and within existing protected areas, the treatment of genetic resources and the rights of indigenous communities as their custodians, intellectual property rights related to traditional knowledge and innovation, the relationship between customary law and the state's conservation obligations, and the government's responsibility towards marginalised and unrecognised communities (orang hutan dan masyarakat gambut/OHMG).

Taken together, the analyses make a compelling case that the draft bill, as written, falls significantly short of Indonesia's obligations under international law and its own constitutional commitments to indigenous peoples. The volume calls for substantial revision to ensure that the new conservation law genuinely advances rights-based, community-led conservation, integrates ICCAs as a formal conservation category, and establishes equitable access and benefit-sharing mechanisms for genetic resources consistent with the Nagoya Protocol.