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5 JILS 1 (2020)

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                        RESEARCH  ARTICLE


        WATER, GLOBALIZATION AND
                   LIBERALIZATION
  Impact  of the Decision of Indonesian  Constitutional  Court
    Number   85/PUU-XI/2013 concerning Water Resources
                Perspective  of the Welfare State

                     Ari Shoviani 2, Rodiyah2
         1 Municipal Waterworks of Semarang City, Indonesia
  2Department of Administrative & Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law,
               Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
                     M  arishovianii@gmail.com

 Submitted: September 12, 2019 Revised: January 15, 2020 Accepted: April 11, 2020



                         ABSTRACT

Privatization, liberalization and globalization of water resources in
Indonesia has become a complicated problem. In one hand, it will increase
the economic values and investment but in the other hands it is contrary
with the 1945 Constitution. Indonesian Water Resources Act has raised
polemics and complaints from many parties, so that the proposed judicial
review to the Constitutional Court. Finally, the Court cancelled this Act.
This research is intended to analyse and describe the implementation of
Water Resources Act that has been cancelled by the Court in the context
of Friedman Theory, especially in Semarang City. The research emphasized
and highlighted that the exploitation of water resources, as well as
privatization and liberalization is not allowed by the 1945 Constitution.


Keywords:   Water Resources; Privatization; Liberalization;
            Globalization, Constitutional Court Decision; Welfare State


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