LOCAL DEVELOPMENT IN DYNAMICS OF INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA CLOSED BORDER REGIONCASE STUDY: LONG BAWAN, KALIMANTAN UTARA

• Main Author: Asfihan Nur Arifin, Muhammad
• Format: Dissertations
• Language: Indonesia
• Subjects: Perencanaan wilayah
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/70137
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Local development reflects local capability in managing and utilizing resources independently or through external intervention. It is oriented to local needs through collective resources optimization as a local capital in synergic-productive between elements towards improving and enhancing the quality of life in all aspects and dimensions of development. The success and sustainability of local development are related to the regional dynamics that support the relation between intra- and extra-local and regional constellations through partial policy. Such an ideal condition sparked a debate in the normative theoretical conception of the contextual perspective in diverse local situations and conditions. The difference in understanding and policy orientation led to failure in adopting the local development strategy in all situations, even tending to ignore the empirical reality of internal and external dynamics that affect the success and sustainability of local development. The contextuality perspective is described empirically in local development in bordering areas through a cross-border cooperation framework and top-down intervention policy directed towards the competitive zone. This situation implicates the characteristics of a transborder region – borderless that supports the success and sustainability of local development along the bordering areas. Meanwhile, outside the cooperative framework, another form arises from the local initiatives to utilize sociocultural cohesiveness, similar objectives, and collective interest. These factors contribute to the permeable-border region characteristics in the form of community based development, informal, and traditionally. The local development in the closed-border region that showed through the transborder activity and interaction has not been well studied though such a phenomenon did occur. Therefore, this study aims to answer the question, “how is the local development in the dynamics of closed border region?” by disclosing interaction relations and describing forms that appear and are constructed in a conceptual frame. This study used an inductive quantitative approach through the constructivismpostmodernism paradigm. The approach is supported by using a grounded theoryiv method constructivism was applied to a studied area of local reflection in Long Bawan Village, Krayan District, Indonesia, located at the bordering region of Kalimantan Indonesian and Malaysia. The studied area empirically showed local development phenomena in the closed border region in contrast to dynamic crossborder interaction fluidity and intensity. Social networking, informal trading, and local entrepreneurship are described as taking effect in local development in the border area. This concept is used as an initial broad concept representing the initial empirical point approaching the substantial of the study through observation, in-depth interview, memoing, recording, coding, categorizing, and comparative constant until saturation is reached as a part of the construction process of theory building. This study's results confirm and fill the gap in the conceptual debate of local development in the contextual perspective of local situations and conditions. The contribution of the study covers, i.e., (1) novelty in disclosing relation form and aspect interactions, orientation direction, and dimension with their elements, (2) novelty in the conceptual framework as a contribution to substantive planning theory of local development in the closed border region, the implication of study results in planning practices as elaboration and lesson learned of findings of the study and discourse in the utilization of grounded theory method constructivism in developmental planning.