National Strategic Development Project in Environmental Law: Economic Growth or Reduction in Public Participation

Abstract

Public participation is fundamental aspect in environmental decision making though environmental impact assessment. Government in developing country, such as Indonesia tends to use constitutional law as a legitimation for development without consider the rights of people in the society. Purpose the article is analysing the implementation of public participation in national strategic development project. The article uses normative method to check regulation coherency. Comparative approach also uses to find problems in environmental decision making that is related to national strategic development project and conceptual approach as well to make an ideal trajectory for a model law. Result finds that information and access to participate have a major role on how government do a project for development. In conclusion, public participation in environmental decision making is important because it contains access to information, access to participate, and access to justice for creating democratic and establish genuine public participation.