Home Minister Welcomes DPR's Special Committee for Border Strengthening
Minister of Home Affairs Muhammad Tito Karnavian, in his capacity as Head of the National Border Management Agency (BNPP), has expressed appreciation for the support from the House of Representatives’ (DPR) Commission II in efforts to strengthen border area management. He noted that this support is crucial given the complexity of issues faced in border regions.
The appreciation was conveyed following a working meeting and hearing with the DPR regarding the results of the Working Committee’s (Panja) visit on state border management at the Commission II meeting room in the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta.
He explained that the Commission II Working Committee team had reviewed several points in Indonesia’s border areas. From these reviews, the team identified various challenges that still require active roles from all stakeholders.
“I express my highest appreciation to Commission II. Why? Because they formed a special team called the Working Committee, Panja,” Tito stated in a written statement on Monday (29/6/2026).
On that occasion, he also emphasised the importance of the BNPP’s existence as a body that coordinates the resolution of various issues in border areas. This role includes resolving state boundary disputes and accelerating development in border regions. He argued that equitable development would improve community welfare while strengthening nationalism.
“If the state at the border is prosperous, the people are prosperous, and nationalism is high, it will be difficult to infiltrate by other countries,” he said.
As the world’s largest archipelagic state, Indonesia has highly complex border areas, both on land and at sea. For land borders, Indonesia directly borders Malaysia, Timor-Leste, and Papua New Guinea. At sea, Indonesia borders 10 countries.
Given this complexity, Commission II of the DPR proposed that the BNPP be granted more imperative authority. The coordinating function currently held by the BNPP often faces challenges because each ministry and agency has its own focus and authority.
“A coordinating body is not easy, we have to coordinate equal ministries and agencies, as well as local governments,” he explained.
In line with the direction of President Prabowo Subianto, he stressed that collaboration between ministries, agencies, and all related parties is key to accelerating border area development. Therefore, he welcomed the plan by Commission II of the DPR to form a Special Committee (Pansus) that would involve various commissions in the DPR to optimise the role of ministries and agencies in strengthening border areas.
“A special committee for border areas because it involves ministries and agencies under other commissions. So automatically, it resolves issues like roads, logistics, borders, disputes between regions, market development, schools, education, and so on in those areas can be tackled together by all ministries and agencies when the special committee convenes,” he concluded.