UPAYA KEPOLISIAN DAERAH SUMATERA BARAT DALAM MENANGGULANGI TINDAK PIDANA ILLEGAL LOGGING

Abstract

Illegal logging is the practice of felling trees or wood harvesting activities carried out illegally or illegally, as regulated in Article 11 of the Law on the Prevention and Eradication of Forest Destruction. The National Police is a law enforcement apparatus that plays a role in eradicating illegal logging crimes, as regulated in Article 7 Paragraph (1) of the Criminal Procedure Code. An example of a case of illegal logging law enforcement carried out by members of the West Sumatra Regional Police is the illegal logging case that occurred in the Padang Aro-Sungai Full area. Problem formulation: (1) What are the efforts of the West Sumatra Regional Police to tackle the crime of illegal logging?; (2) What obstacles do the West Sumatra Regional Police encounter in tackling illegal logging crimes? Types of sociological juridical research; data sources obtained from primary data (interviews) and secondary data (document study); The collected data was analyzed qualitatively. Research results: (1) The West Sumatra Regional Police's efforts to tackle illegal logging crimes were carried out preventively (forest security, patrols, raids), repressive (investigations, inquiries), and preemptive (socialization); (2) The obstacles encountered by the West Sumatra Regional Police in tackling the crime of illegal logging are that the location is in an area that has difficult access, human resources, lack of cooperation from the surrounding community, insufficient funds, modus operandi of the perpetrators and legal coordination, lack of coordination between law enforcer.