<![CDATA[The environmental condition in North Sumatra continues to decline which can endanger the surrounding community, the mangrove forest area has changed its function to become an oil palm plantation in Langkat Regency as if its existence is approved by the local government, the PT.Perkebunan Nusantara 2 (PTPN 2) plantation area in the Deli Serdang Regency area has changed its function to become a residential area elite and hotels, the existing forests around Karo district have been completely depleted due to illegal logging, the existence of floating cages and hotels around Lake Toba Toba Regency has also been polluted by hotel, factory and other waste disposal, on the other hand the floods that hit The city of Medan has also not been able to be overcome by the local government, seeing the damaged and polluted environmental conditions in North Sumatra, of course the main factor or main actor is none other than the company or also called the Corporation. The Law on the Protection and Management of the Environment has made guidelines as contained in Article 116 paragraph 1 concerning criminal sanctions committed by corporations, so those responsible are the business entity itself, the person giving the orders and the management. The formulation of the problem in this research is who should be responsible for environmental crimes by corporations and what is the authority of the local government? Method This research uses a normative approach, namely by analyzing related regulations. The results of this study indicate that determining who is responsible for environmental crimes by corporation the public prosecutor must be able to prove who the parties are involved, while the regional government has the authority to take legal action through article 90 UUPPLH which regulates the right to sue government agencies and local governments.]]>
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