GOVERNMENTAL COLLABORATION ON REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA (RI) - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF TIMOR LESTE (RDTL) LAND BORDER MANAGEMENT
This research analyzed Governmental Collaboration on the Republic of Indonesia (RI)-Democratic Republic of Timor Leste (RDTL) Land Border Management. The three main issues in RI-RDTL border management are welfare, security, and institutional capacity issues. This research employed the phenomenology crisis descriptive qualitative method through observation, interviews, documentation, and triangulation. All research data were analyzed following the theoretical research framework that consists of Private-Public Partnership, Internal Government Collaboration, and Multi-Actor Collaboration theories. The research result showed that governmental collaboration in land border management led to social welfare and security improvement in the RI-RDTL border. The result also highlighted that the collaborative relationship pattern in RI-RDTL land border management is an inter-stakeholder’ collaboration model that involves civil society and private sector elements to deal with issues in Belu District’s land border. The theoretical synthesis resulted in the Collaboration Management Model on Land Borders System (CMMBS), a synergy of two distinct models. The first model represents social welfare management by the Provincial Government of East Nusa Tenggara as its Center of Gravity, which the Belu District Government assists in the Collaboration Management Model on Border Prosperity (CMMBP). The second model represents land border security management by Military Resort Command 161/WS as the Commanding Executive of Land Border Security Operation and the Center of Gravity, which the Land Border Security Task Force assists in the Collaboration Management Model on Land Borders Security (CMMLBS). These approaches are carried out simultaneously with other Ministries/Governmental Agencies, civil societies, universities, private sectors, media, and other stakeholders. The improved Regional Government institutional capacity strengthens them.
Collaboration, Governmental, Land Border, Management