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Effectiveness of the Border Crossing Post in Monitoring the Mobility of Illegal Migrant Workers: An Analysis of Challenges and Obstacles in the Indonesia-Malaysia Border Region Alus Alus; Eny Haryati; Ika Devy Pramudiana
Discourse Journal on Law and Society Vol. 2 No. 3 (2026): Agustus: Discourse on Law and Society
Publisher : International Forum of Researchers and Lecturers

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.70062/djls.v2i3.194

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The Kalimantan border region, which directly adjoins Malaysia, faces a serious problem: the mobility of Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) departing through nonprocedural channels remains high, whether through the Border Crossing Post (PLBN) or unofficial routes. Official data record at least 70 unofficial paths in West Kalimantan, while North Kalimantan shows a recurring pattern of deportation. This condition raises the question of how effectively the PLBN performs its supervisory function. This study analyzes the effectiveness of the PLBN in monitoring illegal PMI mobility and identifies the challenges and obstacles faced by supervisory personnel along the Indonesia-Malaysia border. The population comprised border-supervision stakeholders at PLBN Entikong and PLBN Badau in West Kalimantan, and PLBN Sei Pancang and Nunukan in North Kalimantan. The sample consisted of ten purposively selected informants, including PLBN officers, Immigration Office staff, BP3MI officials, the Army's Border Security Task Force (Satgas Pamtas TNI), police, and border community leaders. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, field observation, and documentation study, and analyzed qualitatively using an interactive model in which data were condensed, displayed thematically, and then used to draw conclusions; validity was established through source and technique triangulation. The findings show that the PLBN is fairly effective in monitoring mobility on official routes; however, this effectiveness is spatial and easily circumvented, since recruitment networks can alter routes, timing, and methods of departure. The main obstacles include geographic conditions, limited resources, interagency data fragmentation, regulatory disharmony, economic pressure on border communities, and difficulty enforcing the law against key recruiters.
Governing Land-Status Uncertainty in Local Development Planning: An Institutional Analysis and Development Theory-to-Practice Review Supardi Supardi; Eny Haryati; Sapto Pramono
Discourse Journal on Law and Society Vol. 2 No. 3 (2026): Agustus: Discourse on Law and Society
Publisher : International Forum of Researchers and Lecturers

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.70062/djls.v2i3.199

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Land-status uncertainty can obstruct local development planning when incomplete or contested records, unclear claimant recognition, and overlapping authority prevent proposals from moving through planning, authorization, budgeting, and implementation. This article examines that public-administration problem using the verified planning concern in Sembakung Atulai Subdistrict, Nunukan Regency, Indonesia, as a bounded phenomenon. It asks how the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework explains the relevant actors, rules, information conditions, and decision mechanisms; what applications and criticisms reveal about the framework’s conditions and boundaries; and how the synthesis can inform context-sensitive administrative options. A theory-focused narrative literature review used five documented search runs in Scopus restricted to English-language articles and reviews in journals at final publication stage. From 568 exported records, 130 duplicates were removed and 438 unique records were screened; 40 verified full-text journal articles formed the corpus. The synthesis shows that land-status uncertainty is best understood as a configuration of linked action situations in which information becomes consequential only when rules-in-use and competent authority connect evidence to reviewable decisions. It also shows that baseline IAD requires explicit attention to institutional plurality, power, linked arenas, administrative capacity, and feedback. The article translates these findings into five connected domains: land-status information and verification; claimant recognition and dispute routing; cross-level coordination and decision integration; rule operationalization and administrative capacity; and power-aware accountability and adaptive review. The contribution is conceptual-translational; the framework is a procedural diagnostic and neither determines legal land status nor establishes causal effectiveness.