The role of Cross Border Cooperation (CBC) Indonesia-Malaysia on regional development in West Kalimantan Region: Case of socio-economic Malaysia Indonesia (Sosek Malindo) Cooperation

Regional policies and development suggest that cities and regions have been increasingly affected by material and non material flows on global scale. Likewise to regional development in West Kalimantan, Indonesia region, it has been performing the development of region on global scale, by developing that prioritizes the development of border regions that have strategic value because has border regions directly on with neighboring country is Sarawak, Malaysia, by building cooperative relationships with the neighboring regions across interstate boundaries. The form of the cooperative relationship is the development of Cross Border Cooperation (CBC) like Sosek Malindo cooperation that is a strategy for
accelerate the growth of regional development in the context of globalization. The main objective of this study is to analyze the role of Cross Border Cooperation (CBC) like Sosek Malindo cooperation that conducts the activities based on the rational foundations of CBC on regional developments in West Kalimantan region. The rational foundations of CBC consist of economic, political, cultural and historical, and cooperation and competition. Besides, the other objective in this study was also to identify other aspects of CBC in West Kalimantan region that might be different from the existing CBC. This study used in-depth interview, participant observations and documents as main data collection. Results showed that application of rational foundations of Cross Border Cooperation (CBC) under Sosek Malindo cooperation have significantly contributed to the regional development of West Kalimantan region, particularly in border regions. This study also found that transportation, tourism, health, and forestry and environment are addition aspects in this cooperation