Responsibilities of Industry Actors to Environmental Conservation in Coastal Areas La Ode Angga * , Rory Jeff Akyuwen, Adonia Ivone Laturette, Dyah R.A. Daties, Popi Tuhulele, Muchtar Anshary Hamid Labetubun, Iqbal Taufik Faculty of Law, Pattimura University, Ambon 97233, Indonesia Corresponding Author Email: laodeangga@yahoo.com https://doi.org/10.18280/ijsdp.160405 ABSTRACT Received: 24 September 2020 Accepted: 30 June 2021 The form of responsibility for industry players in maintaining the preservation of coastal areas in Wahai Seram Utara District, Central Maluku Regency based on Law Number 32 of 2009 concerning Environmental Protection and Management (UUPPLH), namely: Forms of state administrative legal accountability, forms of legal accountability civil and criminal legal liability forms. Keywords: responsibility, industry actors, environmental conservation, coastal areas 1. INTRODUCTION Coastal areas as a transitional area between terrestrial and marine ecosystems that are affected by changes in land and sea and small islands as islands with an area smaller than or equal to 2,000 km² (two thousand square kilometers) and their unity of the ecosystem must be managed sustainably as an important part of development strategy to increase national competitiveness, in coastal and marine management efforts, the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (DKP) of the Republic of Indonesia in 2001 identified three main problems, namely: (1) socio-economic problems, (2) institutional problems, (3) problems physical and (4) legal problems due to conflicts of authority and ownership of coastal and marine areas as well as uncertainty/ overlapping regulations in the legal sector [1]. In accordance with the essence of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia as a constitutional state, the development of a Coastal Zone and Small Islands Management system as part of environmentally sustainable development must be provided with a clear, firm and comprehensive legal basis to ensure legal certainty for the management of Coastal Areas and Small Islands for this purpose the issuance of Law Number 27 of 2007 concerning Management of Coastal Areas and Small Islands (UUPWPPK) as a lex specialis in the management and protection of coastal areas and small islands in Indonesia. Apart from the UUPWPPK [2], there are also other laws and regulations that will provide legal protection for coastal areas and small islands which will be discussed in the next chapter. The main issue in coastal areas is the rapid population growth that tends to live and do activities in coastal areas. As a strategic place, the coast is used for various things in the form of exploitation of fishery, forestry, oil, gas, mining and groundwater resources and others. Beach as a tourist area, conservation and biodiversity protection. The coast is also used as a place for development and improvement of infrastructure, including transportation, ports, airports, all of which are to meet the increasing population [3]. The environmental crisis is a very big challenge in this century. This challenge is found to apply especially in developing countries, because there are various development activities aimed at improving the welfare of mankind which often also have an impact on environmental changes. Development activities that are not accompanied by proper Environmental Protection and Management will result in calamity for mankind. Thus, the concept of supervision, management and implementation of environmental laws is the main key to achieving environmental sustainability [4]. Lothar Guilding, in his writing entitled Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making, suggests several bases for community participation to take environmental protection measures, namely in the following cases [5]: 1) Provide information to the government; 2) Increase people's willingness to accept decisions; 3) Assisting in legal protection; 4) Democratizing decision making. Apart from these obligations, there is also the right of the community to obtain a good living environment as regulated in Article 28H paragraph (1) that "As a consequence of the right to a good and healthy environment, there is an obligation for everyone to maintain the environment in order to prevent and tackling environmental damage and pollution”. Because environmental management is an integrated effort to preserve environmental functions which includes policy, arrangement, utilization, development, maintenance, restoration, supervision and control of the environment, environmental management is carried out on the basis of state responsibility, sustainability and benefits [6]. This was then confirmed in the regulation in Law Number 32 of 2009 concerning Environmental Protection and Management (UUPPLH). The community's right to obtain a good living environment is formulated in Article 65 of the UUPPLH, namely [7]: (1) Everyone has the right to a good and healthy environment as part of human rights. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning Vol. 16, No. 4, August, 2021, pp. 651-660 Journal homepage: http://iieta.org/journals/ijsdp 651