Defense and Economy in the Border Areas of the Country in the Framework of National Welfare
M. R. Muhammad Zaky Mikail Rafsanjani *
Universitas Pertahanan, Kawasan IPSC Sentul, Kec. Citeureup, Kabupaten Bogor, Jawa Barat, Indonesia.
. Suhirwan
Universitas Pertahanan, Kawasan IPSC Sentul, Kec. Citeureup, Kabupaten Bogor, Jawa Barat, Indonesia.
Djoko Andreas Navalino
Universitas Pertahanan, Kawasan IPSC Sentul, Kec. Citeureup, Kabupaten Bogor, Jawa Barat, Indonesia.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
This study explains the condition and urgency of welfare development in Indonesia's border areas from a defense and economic perspective. This research is aimed at determining the previous government's actions from centralization to shifting towards a more decentralized direction, as well as governance characterized by previous bad governance shifting towards governance characterized by good governance and clean governance in order to achieve a national defense and also increase the economy in the region. border. The method used to write the article relates to the dialectic of descriptive-qualitative research aimed at obtaining an empirical picture of infrastructure, economic and service development in border areas. The results of this paper show that with a development in the border area, it must prioritize a prosperity approach, which in this case is complemented by an economic approach that can encourage an investment in a border area that is in accordance with several the potential and opportunities that the region has.
Keywords: Defence, economy, country border