Environmental impact assessment as a regulation and equator principles as an initiative

Abstract

The commitment to implementing environmental management is a key to reach the sustainable environmental in a development country specially in Indonesia. AMDAL (Indonesian term for Environmental Impact Assessment, EIA) as a regulation and Environmental Impact Assessment in Equator Principles (EP) as global initiative is a baseline in mapping the social, economic and environment figure at pre-construction, construction and operation phase. Social factors are the main thing to be secured which should be controlled based on existing guidelines, because it is relatively risky become a fatality. The paper aims to analyse the descriptive and comparative how are AMDAL and EP handling the environmental within the framework of partnership to achieve the ultimate goals that arise due to environmental factors, especially in monitoring and evaluation on development activities. The researcher finds there were gap in public consultation process between AMDAL and EP implementation. The results are expected to highlight the importance of adopting a comprehensive framework for a decision that places a detailed analysis of related the monitoring and evaluation within the broader legal and initiative context. Finally, it is expected that the condition of environmental sustainability reflected in Indonesia, based on at least both AMDAL and EP.