<![CDATA[The increasing scale of environmental degradation in Indonesia indicates that the fundamental problem of environmental law does not merely lie in normative deficiencies, but rather in a paradigmatic failure rooted in an anthropocentric and procedural legal orientation. Such an orientation reduces environmental protection to formal administrative compliance, while substantive protection of ecological carrying capacity and environmental limits has not been treated as binding legal constraints. This article aims to examine the paradigm of ecological law within the Indonesian environmental legal system through a normative approach grounded in the philosophy of science, focusing on ontological, epistemological, and axiological dimensions. This study employs doctrinal legal research using statutory, conceptual, and philosophical approaches, analyzed qualitatively through deductive legal reasoning. The findings reveal that Indonesian environmental law remains caught between an economic growth oriented development paradigm and the constitutional mandate to ensure environmentally just and sustainable governance. The ecological law paradigm offers a conceptual framework to reconstruct environmental law by recognizing the intrinsic value of the environment, integrating scientific knowledge and environmental ethics into legal reasoning, and reorienting law enforcement toward ecological justice and ecosystem restoration. This article argues that a shift toward an ecological law paradigm is a normative prerequisite for effective environmental protection and for fulfilling constitutional obligations to safeguard intergenerational justice.]]>
