Tinjauan Kriminologis Pembukaan Lahan Dengan Cara Dibakar Di Wilayah Hukum Pengadilan Negeri Pasir Pengaraian

Based on the Riau Province regional regulation Number 1 of 2019 in article 9, it is known that every person and/or holder of a forest and/or land management permit is prohibited from burning forest and/or land and/or taking actions that can cause forest and/or land fires. Forest and/or land burning for special purposes must obtain a permit from the competent authority. Although Indonesia has many laws and regulations that prohibit forest burning, in reality the enforcement of these laws and regulations is still very weak. Like several cases that occurred in the jurisdiction of the Pasir Pengaraian District Court, in the period 2017 to 2019 the area of ​​land burned in the jurisdiction of the Pasir Pengaraian District Court reached approximately 100 hectares, the 7 criminal cases of land burning were individual criminal cases. namely land clearing by burning. The problem that the author examines in this study is about the causative factors, the modus operandi and efforts to combat land clearing by burning in the jurisdiction of the Pasir Pengaraian District Court. The type of research used in this research is observational research conducted by means of surveys, namely research directly in the field to obtain data and information through respondents in the field with interviews. This research was conducted in the jurisdiction of the Pasir Pengaraian District Court. The data used in this study are primary data and secondary data. Data collection tools using interviews and literature review. The population and sample are parties related to the overall problem of this research. The data analysis used is a qualitative technique by means of deductive inference. The results of the study explain that the problem of forest burning can not only be solved by arresting the perpetrators and giving them sanctions, but the cause of the crime must be sought. If we look from the point of view of Law Enforcement Theory with a criminological review, the public considers that the current criminal code only targets the lower class of society but it is very difficult to reach corporates. This of course does not reflect good law enforcement. Barriers to law enforcement in the field, among those obstacles are: Lack of socialization to the community and corporations about the dangers of clearing land by burning and arsonists can be punished. Lack of supporting facilities and facilities in monitoring and preventing forest fires. Lack of professional resources who know how to extinguish and identify the type of fire