The Urgency of Regulating the Protection of Indonesia’s Genetic Resources for the People’s Welfare

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10.2991/978-2-38476-218-7_69How to use a DOI?

Keywords

blueprint; genetic resources; legal instruments protection

Abstract

As a consequence of being a mega biodiversity country Indonesia needs strong legal instruments to protect its genetic resources. The legal basis for protecting genetic resources as spread across various fields and in imbalanced regulation tends to be concentrated in certain fields. This weakness is worsened by partial and legal study concentration in just certain fields beside the absence of a blue print genetic resources protection which must be the duty and responsibility of the Ministry of Environment. This makes the regulation on genetic resource protection like a patchwork. This article illustrates the importance of a complete and comprehensive regulation on genetic resources protection in Indonesia. This research uses legal research methods, specifically using regulations that apply in Indonesia. Until now the regulations on genetic resources protection are still spread across several fields and are not comprehensive and some even conflict with each other. It is like a “doughnut with a hole in the middle” because there are several fields that do not have regulations, especially in the fields of trade, tourism, village government. as well as the field of research (biotechnology) so that it will possibly have an impact of potentially bioprospecting and biopiracy practices which will endanger the genetic resources in Indonesia as well as the people’s welfare. The implementation of omnibus bill technique in drafting statutory regulations is to be a right moment to comprehensively evaluate all the existing statutory regulations on genetic resources protection.

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AU  - Yovita Indaryati
AU  - I Gusti Ayu Ketut Rachmi Handayani
AU  - Lego Karjoko
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/02/22
TI  - The Urgency of Regulating the Protection of Indonesia’s Genetic Resources for the People’s Welfare
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference On Law, Economic & Good Governance (IC-LAW 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 414
EP  - 420
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-218-7_69
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-218-7_69
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