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    "data": {
        "id": 2044305,
        "msgid": "bnppdt-to-extend-border-management-to-underdeveloped-regions-1792396400",
        "date": "2026-10-19 14:19:56",
        "title": "BNPPDT to Extend Border Management to Underdeveloped Regions",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "BNPPDT chief Maruli Simanjuntak says the agency will broaden its focus beyond border security to include improving livelihoods in border buffer zones and underdeveloped areas. The expansion is intended to strengthen the agency\u2019s delivery of planned programmes and support national resilience by improving welfare in border communities.",
        "content": "<p>Jakarta (ANTARA) \u2013 The head of the National Agency for Border and\nRemote Area Management (BNPPDT), and Indonesian National Armed Forces\n(TNI) Deputy Commander, General Maruli Simanjuntak, said that\nborder-area management would in future focus not only on security but\nalso on improving residents\u2019 welfare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to establish a new nomenclature because, in addition to\nmanaging border areas, we will also be responsible for improving welfare\nin buffer-zone areas,\u201d Maruli said at the BNPP office in Jakarta on\nMonday.<\/p>\n<p>Maruli made the remarks after taking over as head of BNPPDT from Home\nAffairs Minister Tito Karnavian.<\/p>\n<p>He said the agency would continue its ongoing programmes while\nstepping up the implementation of programmes planned by the\ngovernment.<\/p>\n<p>The measures are expected to strengthen border-area management as\nBNPP\u2019s responsibilities expand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany things planned this year will be implemented next year to\nimprove BNPP. With BNPPDT added as well, hopefully we can expand further\nin the future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Karnavian had earlier expressed hope that Maruli\u2019s leadership would\nimprove the effectiveness of BNPPDT\u2019s work, including the management of\nland and sea borders and the development of underdeveloped regions.<\/p>\n<p>He also stressed the importance of improving welfare in border\ncommunities to reinforce nationalism and territorial resilience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people are prosperous, they strengthen nationalism and become a\nbuffer zone against infiltration by land or sea,\u201d he said.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/bnppdt-to-extend-border-management-to-underdeveloped-regions-1792396400",
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    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
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