This legal writing entitled Legal Enforcement towards Environmental
Destruction as Result of Illegal Limestone Mining in Gunungkidul Regency. The
important legal problem to study is how legal enforcement towards environmental
destruction as result of illegal limestone mining in Gunungkidul Regency and
what are barriers in legal enforcement towards environmental destruction as result
of illegal limestone mining in Gunungkidul Regency. The purpose of this research
was to know on legal enforcement towards environmental destruction as result of
illegal limestone mining in Gunungkidul Regency, to know the barriers faced in
legal enforcement towards environmental destruction as result of illegal limestone
mining in Gunungkidul Regency. The method of research was empirically
conducted by primary data. The method of information collection was directly
conducted with concerning parties on the object understudied of which is used as
primary data and secondary data gained from literature could be in other
regulations, Constitution of 1945, The Act Number 11 of 1967 on Primary
Determination of Mining, The Act Number 4 of 2009 on Mineral and Coal,
Regional Regulation Number 11 of 2003 on Efforts of Mining Material. From the
result of this research, it shows that legal enforcement towards the illegal
limestone mining has not been conducted maximally on the ground of the lack of
local society’s comprehension on license in mining field as a result of relatively
still low educational level, the limitation on socialization of regulations or
legislation from the government to the society, the limited personal to conduct
supervisory and order thus there are still society that conduct illegal mining. Thus
the advice given is socialization of regional regulation to governmental apparatus,
the apparatus relating to the authority, the license granting to society on the
importance of license and its method, includes in managing license, opening new
working field, hopefully the government becomes firmer in conducting
enforcement of regional regulation, it is established a particular institution whose
task is supervising mining process.