Comparative Study of Border Area Development Models Through Security, Prosperity, and Environmental Approach at Sebatik and Miangas Islands

Abstract

Various problems with illegal activities at the border and border economic activities are the impact of interactions between border communities and nearby cities in neighboring countries. Therefore, development of the Sebatik and Miangas border areas must continue to be carried out to overcome these problems. A comparative study of security, prosperity and environmental approaches to support the development of the Sebatik and Miangas borders was carried out. The method used is a mixed method. Quantitative approach to obtain the influence of the three approaches in Sebatik and Miangas. Qualitative approach to obtain policy concepts and implementation in Sebatik and Miangas. Respondents and research subjects were security forces and local governments in Sebatik and Miangas. The research results show that in Sebatik and Miangas, the most dominant approach is prosperity, the second is the security approach, and the third is the environmental approach. Meanwhile, the proposed policy is Border development is carried out in a holistic, comprehensive, integrated border development system based on security, prosperity and environmental factors thematically and spatially with benchmarks for success, namely productivity, efficiency, and community participation through a combined top-down and bottom-up system. Policy implementation in the two regions is different according to the characteristics of Sebatik, which borders sea and land, and Miangas, which borders sea.