Kerjasama Sempadan Malaysia-Indonesia Untuk Meningkatkan Keselamatan Sempadan Sarawak–Kalimantan: Syor Untuk Rangka Kerja Baharu (Malaysia-Indonesia Border Cooperation To Enhance Sarawak–Kalimantan Border Security: Recommendations For New Framework)

Abstract

Malaysia’s land borders are vulnerable to traditional threats and non-traditional security. Traditional security threats or conventional security threats are a form of threat to national security involving military aspects or physical threats that come from outside. Meanwhile, non-traditional threats to safety involve non-state actors, cross-border crimes that are asymmetrical and have an impact on the social, political, economic and environmental sectors. Malaysia has a long land border with Indonesia which is 1,881 km from Sarawak to Sabah. This study aims to make recommendations for a new framework for border security between Sarawak – Kalimantan, Indonesia. This study uses a qualitative method where part of the data is collected through secondary data obtained through library studies. This includes academic books, journal articles, and confidential reports issued (public domain) as well as government safety and defense policies. Meanwhile, primary data was obtained through field studies and face-to-face interviews with experts and officials directly involved in the study topics from Malaysia and Indonesia. The concept of National Security has been used to explain this study. The result of this study is that the Government of Malaysia is trying to work with the Government of Indonesia to overcome the existing threats. In addition, the Malaysian Government has also intensified patrols and increased security guard checkpoints along the border. Cooperation not only involves the police, military but also Immigration, Customs and the National Security Council. This is because every agency and ministry needs to work with each other to enable coordination activities to enhance national security.