Law No. 32/2009 on Environmental Protection and Management.

The purpose of this Law is to create an environmentally sustainable development through means of an environmental planning policy, and the rational exploitation, development, maintenance, restoration, supervision and control of the environment.
Environmental protection and management shall be planned through the following phases: environmental inventorying to obtain data and information on natural resources; stipulation of ecoregions; and the formulation of environmental protection and management plans. The Government shall be responsible for: controlling natural resources; controlling environmental pollution and damage; making strategic environmental assessments; providing quality standards of the environment; regulating legal actions and legal relations between persons and/or other legal subjects; controlling activities which have social impact; developing a funding system for efforts to preserve environmental functions; etc.
Every business and/or activity having substantial impact on the environment is subject to an environmental impact analysis in order to obtain a licence to conduct such business or activity as discussed in detail in the Law. Requirements and procedures for obtaining an environmental permit are set out in the Law.
The Law also makes provision for the management of hazardous and toxic materials as well as hazardous and toxic waste.
Particular attention should be paid also to the importance given by the Law to the role that communities should play in the environmental protection and management.
The Law further provides for: development of an environmental information system to support the implementation and development of environmental protection and management policies; rights, obligations and prohibitions of the people; settlement of environmental disputes; investigation powers of the police of the Republic of Indonesia; offences and penalties; etc.