International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Vol. 24, Issue 02, 2020 ISSN: 1475-7192 Abstract--- The river conservation become a challenge to human life nowadays, river is a place where water has right to flow thereforethe environmental conditions must be maintained.In a certain context, Indonesian public’s perception making the river as an inevitable target in economy-social needs fulfilment. This study uses a normative juridical approach, based on the legal norms of government regulation number 35 of 1991 applied about River and regulation number 32 of 2009 concerning Environment’s protection and management,by researching the relation between positive law and reality in the community. The damaged of the quality of river environment conditionhave an impact to all component of life structure in the river area, it must be avoided, considered the alternative use of legal instrument to build disciplin. The environment issue at the developing country such as Indonesia caused by efforts to maximize natural resources to fulfil community economic needs. Poverty becomes one factors causing the degradation of quality of river’s environment, this reflects economic penetration take effect so much into law dimension.The efforts used to maintain the quality of river conditions through law enforcement processes, and also to coordinate the institutional function through supervision so that the preservation of the river’s environment is maintained. Keywords--- River’s Conservation, Environment Quality, Poverty. I. INTRODUCTION The economic development is a backbone to natioal development. One of the main function of the river environment is to irrigate agricultural land and to fulfil the needs of clean water. Along with the population growth and various industrial development, so river’s pollution has become a serious problem faced by humans. Even air, soil, and water can not be separated from the pollution problems, it can not be denied that the most threatened environment nowadays is water environment especially river because river is the main needs of industry and household, and finally most of water that has been used by industry and household will be realesed into the environment together with various pollutants type inside it. There are many rivers at Majalengka District that is as an artery of life for the surrounding community. Those rivers are vital facilities and infrastructure for public in their daily life as transportation facilities as well as drinking water raw material, bathing and washing and also various activities such as industry, fisheries, plantation, mining, and other activities and also as a final disposal place of waste from the activities around. According to clause 1 paragraph 2 constitution number 5 of 1990 explained that conservation of biological Endang Sutrisno*, Masters Program in Postgraduate Law Science, Universitas Swadaya Gunung Jati, Cirebon, Indonesia. E-mail: endangsutrisno94@gmail.com Taty Sugiarti, Masters Program in Postgraduate Law Science, Universitas Swadaya Gunung Jati, Cirebon, Indonesia. E-mail: tatysugiartiramlan@yahoo.co.id Iis Isnaeni Nurwanty, Faculty of Law in Law Science Program, Universitas Swadaya Gunung Jati, Cirebon, Indonesia. E-mail: iis.isnaeni.nurwanty@live.de The River Conservation for Environmental Preservation in Juristical Perspective Endang Sutrisno*, Taty Sugiarti and Iis Isnaeni Nurwanty DOI: 10.37200/IJPR/V24I2/PR200493 Received: 23 Dec 2019 | Revised: 07 Jan 2020 | Accepted: 18 Jan 2020 1916