¹Doctoral Program Student, Institute of Political Science National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan;

²Lecturer at International Relations Department, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia

³ASEAN Study Center, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
⁴Alumni of International Relations Department, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Indonesia

⁵Journalist of Bisnis Indonesia

Email: septyantogalan@staff.uns.ac.id

How a certain country enforces its environmental policy is different from each other, since there are a lot of factors that may affect it. In Indonesia, several environmental issues have not been solved properly. This may be caused by the lack of understanding and also the lack of exposure to the issue. This study will discuss a particular case about tailing waste caused by mining activity by Freeport in Papua which may not be solved if there are no securitization efforts by relevant stakeholders. Interestingly, the stakeholders for this case are the local community, unlike the stereotype which is dominated by NGOs and other private actors. This case is chosen since it can explain the importance of the securitization act towards environmental issues surmounted. Additionally, this study served as a response to the lack of discussion about securitization on environmental issues in Indonesia. This research will use qualitative descriptive methods supported by a literature study using the publications on the google scholar database related to securitization against environmental issues in Indonesia, which will later be visualized by the Vos Viewer program. The results showed that securitization by certain stakeholders is significant for a certain environmental issue so that it can gain enough exposure to be solved by responsible actors.