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The land acquisition process for public interest in many case don’t work properly. It usually caused<br />by the reluctance of land ownership right holders to release their land. Generally because they<br />felt their rights were unprotected especially the right to get proper compensation. This research<br />aimed to find out and to understand about legal protection to the land ownership right holders<br />in land acquisition for public interest and its implementation by studied case of land acquisition<br />for PLTU (steam power plant) development in west Lombok . This research used a normative–<br />sociological research method which focus on the “realization and implementation” of normative<br />legal (in abstracto) in certain legal case (in concerto) or in other phrase methods of this research<br />meant to see how legal works in the society. Research result shown that land ownership right<br />holders in land acquisition for PLTU development in west Lombok did not get optimum legal<br />protection which caused by unserious attention from the regulation of land acquisition for public<br />interest to this matter. Beside that, the official of land acquisition for public interest did not gave<br />their maximum effort to protect related rights and the reluctance of land ownership right holders<br />to registered their land also causing lack protection of their rights.<br />Keywords: Legal Protection, Land Acquisition