Abstract :
This research aimed to know how is the responsibility of mining company
toward the environmental pollution and detriment of society as the impacts of tailing
discharge. Reviewing valid law and also how better the positive legal change in
Indonesia is to anticipate the incident of environmental destruction and society?s
detriment. This matter is caused by the law has absolute responsibility in Indonesia
which is a regulation adopted from foreign state has not been enforced maximally
because it has not fulfilled every aspect of absolute responsibility.
This research is normative legal research by studying various legal literatures.
This research used legal comparing approach between the conventions which
implement strict liability by valid legal in Indonesia. The result of comparison with
these conventions is a fundamental to determine how better is the legal enforcement
in Indonesia to protect living environment and the society which get any detriment.
The result of this research showed that the convention ruling on strict liability
give maximum limit of compensation of detriment and also the period of
responsibility for the society?s detriment and the environmental destruction. The
principals from these conventions thus could behalf as input in order to refine the
regulations formulations of living environment in Indonesia in order could be
implemented more maximal.