In preparing the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS or in Indonesian called
AMDAL) document, the initiator must involve the community, as regulated in
Article 26 paragraph (1) of the UUPPLH. The legal problem in this research is
how is the regulation about the announcement implementation as an attempt to
community involvement in the EIS process? This legal research is an normative
legal research that focuses on legislations, and the data were collected through
interviews and literature study. The conclusion of this research indicate that the
regulation regarding community involvement in the EIS process is regulated in
the UUPPLH and various derivative regulations under it, but after the
enactment of the CIPTAKER Law, it causes a weakening of community
involvement in the EIS process. Announcement as the initial stage for the public
to know about a business plan and/or activity is indeed regulated in such a way
in the CIPTAKER Law and Government Regulation Number 22 of 2021, but
there are still incomplete arrangements in Article 30 PP 22 of 2021 does not
stipulate the right of the community to file an objection, while the regulation
regarding objections is still valid in Article 65 of the UUPPLH. As for other
things that can potentially weaken community involvement, are changes in the
definition of community after the amendment of Article 26 of the UUPPLH to
only affected communities; the abolition of the EIS assessment commission; and
the nomenclature of the permit changed to environmental approval. Therefore,
it is suggested that the regulation regarding community involvement in the future
should be shown more in the EIS process, not narrowed, reduced, or weakened,
so that from the beginning to the end the community is given wider opportunities
to get involved.