Defense and Economy in the Border Areas of the Country in the Framework of National Welfare

This study explains the condition and urgency of welfare development in Indonesia's border areas from a defense and economic perspective. This research is aimed at determining the previous government's actions from centralization to shifting towards a more decentralized direction, as well as governance characterized by previous bad governance shifting towards governance characterized by good governance and clean governance in order to achieve a national defense and also increase the economy in the region. border. The method used to write the article relates to the dialectic of descriptive-qualitative research aimed at obtaining an empirical picture of infrastructure, economic and service development in border areas. The results of this paper show that with a development in the border area, it must prioritize a prosperity approach, which in this case is complemented by an economic approach that can encourage an investment in a border area that is in accordance with several the potential and opportunities that the region has.