License: Licence agreement concerning inclusion of doctoral thesis in the Institutional Repository of the University of LeidenEnvironmental Dispute Resolution • September 28th, 2021
Contract Type FiledSeptember 28th, 2021The cornerstone of President Suharto’s New Order was economic development (þ9MbŒMgYMŒM), which encompassed both the intensive development of the industrial sector and the exploitation of a range of natural resources. Whilst economic development brought benefits to the wider populace, the environmental cost was considerable and more often than not, ignored. Since 1997, political, economic and social crisis has shaken the nation of Indonesia, relegating environmental issues to a relatively low position on the state’s political agenda.1 Ironically, these wider changes have only intensified the incidence of environmental disputes across the archipelago as natural resources have come under increasing pressure from spiralling rates of illegal exploitation.2 The political liberalization that followed the demise of the New Order has also been a catalyst for the re-emergence of long suppressed environmental disputes. Long suffering victims of pollution and environmental damage have become incre