BORDER AREA DEVELOPMENT NOT WELL-MANAGED : LEGISLATOR

Jakarta, Feb 1 (ANTARA) - The development of Indonesia's border areas has not yet been well and concertedly managed where polices regarding their development are also overlapping, a legislator said.

"The main problem in the development and management of the country's border areas is coordination and synergy among relevant agencies," Fayakhun Andriadi of the House Commission I in charge of defense, foreign affairs and information affairs, said here on Monday.

He was commenting on the Presidential Decree on National Board for Border Management (BNPP).

On the occasion, Andriadi who is also a member of the Golkar faction in the House, also explained the results of the visit of Commission I to areas in East Kalimantan, which share borders with the Malaysian state of Sabah.

"We have to criticize the government in this case because it is obvious that the border areas management is not carried out well and concertedly so that it causes uncertainties and policy overlapping," he said.

The central and provincial governments as well as district administrations did not share the same vision and mission on the objective conditions of the border areas, he said.

"Besides, the stereotype reason saying the budget is limited amid priorities to other sectors also always emerges," he said.

Therefore according to Andriadi, the issuance of the presidential decree would bring a big hope for the development of the border areas.

"It is also expected that the coordinate points of the borders in Papua, Kalimantan and those with Timor Leste should be made immediately. The coordinate points have not yet been clearly made in Law No. 43 / 2008 on Border Areas," he said.

He said that the absence of the coordinate points had caused the Indonesian security officers to lose confidence in safeguarding the border areas when the military officers of neighboring countries lodged a complaint.

"The House urges the government to give priority to the coordinate points in issuing a presidential decree," he said.