Abstract:

Forest and land fires often occur in Indonesia. The effects of fires are far-reaching and have significant impacts on the environment, economy, heritage and social structure of rural areas, as well as nearby cities and neighboring countries. Often the community is the victim of forest and land fires. The community expects benefits in the implementation of law enforcement. However, based on the ideals and objectives of the law, there is not a single legal umbrella or legislation that accommodates the interests of victims of forest and land fires. The purpose of this study is to find out how the government's authority in providing protection to the rights of people who are victims of forest and land fires. This research is normative legal research with a statutory approach, a comparative approach and a historical approach. The legal materials used are primary, secondary, and tertiary with the technique of analyzing legal materials using Systematic, Grammatical, Extensive and Historical interpretation methods. The results of the study indicate that the government's authority in providing protection for the rights of the victims of forest and land fires is to provide preventive legal protection in the form of laws and regulations made based on the authority of the government as a legislator.

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