The Enacting of the Local Ordinance and the Management of the Natural Resources and its Environment

Abstract

Decentralization authorizes the local administrative organizations in protecting and managing natural resources and the environment through the local ordinance. However, this study found some limitations when the local authority exercises its power to enact the local ordinance, including (1) regulators interferes with the independent power of the local authority when the local authority enacting the local ordinance, (2) laws regarding the establishment of local administrative authority empowering them for the addition of other duties in the management of natural resources, (3) local administrative authority lacks the skills to introduce a particular local ordinance, (4) the process of the promulgation of the legal ordinance is not recognized in public and time consuming, and (5) the local ordinance enacted by local administrative authority must be in accordance with the power and scope given by its primary law.

The local administrative authority should be genuinely independence and the central administrative authority should support them for the enacting of an effective local ordinance. This is to support the development of the utilization and conservation of the natural resources and the environment, to harmonize with the context, lifestyle, local culture, along with the coordination and acceptance of the whole community.