Local Wisdom in the Environmental Protection and Management

Abstract

The paper analyses the urgency of local wisdom values in the environmental protection and management. The purpose of the study is to identify and explain the benefits of local wisdom that live and thrive in the society so that it can serve as a solution to the problems that arise in the environmental protection and management. In the study, the researcher does a juridical-normative analysis with conceptual and statute approaches. The paradigm of developmentalism has driven the development of Indonesia's national economy in tandem with the anthropocentrism paradigm. As a result, the growth that runs solely for the benefit of human regardless the interest of nature. The amendment of article number 33 of the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia contains the synergy of national development with the preservation of the environment that comes from the environmental ethics. Local wisdom is explicitly regulated in Law number 32 of 2009 as the noble values prevail in the social custom to protect and manage the environment sustainably. The result of the analysis shows that there is a need for affirmative synergy law enforcement with local wisdom values in its efforts to protect and manage the environment optimally.

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