Abstract The decline in environmental quality is a problem that must be faced by all countries today. The paradigm of environmental protection can be done by providing rights to the environment and regulating the obligations of the state by incorporating environmental norms into the constituion. The constitutionalization of the environment has been carried out by many countries in the world by including general environmental principles in the state constitution. To strengthen environmental protection in the constitution, the role of the Constitutional Court is needed through constitutional interpretation in its decisions. This article will examine the role and efforts of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia in enforcing the law regarding environmental protection. It employs both primary and secondary legal materials collected through a literature review. This study concludes that the Indonesia’s Constitutional Court has played an active role in protecting the environment, but has not yet reached the aspect of ecological justice, still oriented towards human interests. Therefore, in the future, there needs to be a paradigm shift from the judges who are not only oriented towards environmental use, but they are more oriented towards the environment.
Pinilih et al. (Mon,) studied this question.