The Controversy of Water Resources Legislation in Indonesia: an Islamic Constitutional Law Approach

Authors

  • Ija Suntana UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.28918/jhi.v19i2.4421

Keywords:

Regulatory Vacuum, Privatization, Islamic Constitutional Law, Cancellation Lawsuit, Entrepreneur Unrest

Abstract

This study aims to explain the protracted water legislation controversy in Indonesia. Any birth law on water resources always raises the pros and cons of the Indonesian people. This study is descriptive-analytical research, with a socio-political, juridical normative, and doctrinal approach. This study finds that the cause of the controversy over water legislation in Indonesia is that references of legislation do not stand on a solid concept, as conceptualized in the Islamic constitutional law, namely meaning of the legal text, social realities, proportional between maslahat and mafsadat, the priority of content rules and law changes.

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Published

03-12-2021

How to Cite

Suntana, Ija. 2021. “The Controversy of Water Resources Legislation in Indonesia: An Islamic Constitutional Law Approach”. Jurnal Hukum Islam 19 (2). Indonesia:193-209. https://doi.org/10.28918/jhi.v19i2.4421.

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