Pendekatan Anti Pencucian Uang: Paradigma Baru Untuk Menjerat Aktor Intelektual Illegal Logging

Abstract

De facto, illegal logging practices in Indonesia have multidimensional impacts on social, economic, cultural, and ecological aspects. Eradicating illegal logging crimes is challenging for Indonesia due to the role of intellectual actors or financiers as capital owners. Legal institutions in Indonesia in the environmental and forestry sectors have only been able to ensnare field actors and have not been able to ensnare intellectual actors in illegal logging practices. However, the enactment of Law Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Eradication of Money Laundering (UU TPPU) has become a momentum for law enforcement to ensnare the intellectual masterminds of illegal logging practices. This article aims to examine the modus operandi of money laundering in illegal logging crimes and the model for eradicating illegal logging crimes through an anti-money laundering approach. This research was conducted using a legal approach and a conceptual approach. The results of the study indicate that money laundering is one way for perpetrators of illegal logging crimes to obscure or hide assets from illegal logging so that they can be enjoyed safely. Generally, law enforcement has difficulty proving the involvement of actors behind the scenes of illegal logging crimes. The intellectual actors of illegal logging who carry out their roles behind the scenes can be prosecuted through an anti-money laundering approach by optimizing the role of Financial Service Providers (PJK) and the Implementation of Know Your Customer Principles (PMN), identification of financial transactions, and operationalization of the TPPU Law.