Communication and Information Cooperation Patterns of The Republic of Indonesia Police (Polri)-Diraja Malaysia Police (PDRM) in Facing the Threat of Drug Smuggling in the Border Areas of North Kalimantan and Sabah

Abstract

The issue of drug smuggling is a transnational issue that is an important thing to always be a concern of a country, especially Indonesia and Malaysia, on the North Kalimantan-Sabah border. This is certainly a problem that is very disturbing to both Indonesia and Malaysia. Apart from being economically detrimental, it is also dangerous for the next generation of the nation.Therefore, Indonesia and Malaysia also made efforts to eradicate drug smuggling, by creating a pattern of communication and information cooperation between PDRM-POLRI. This research is aimed at finding out how cooperation patterns work between PDRM-POLRI through communication and information approaches, in dealing with the threat of drug smuggling. This research uses the method is a qualitative research method using a descriptive-qualitative approach. The method of data collection was collected by means of documentation studies and literature studies through official Indonesian government web page documents that are open to the public, namely BNN and ASEAN which is a regional international organization and several journal articles. The results of the research reveal and explain patterns of cooperation between PDRM-POLRI shows the results, first, the cooperation carried out shows that drug smuggling circulating in the North Kalimantan region comes from abroad; second, this is evidenced by the arrests that occurred to Malaysian citizens as many as 68 people in 2019; Third, the type of drug smuggled in the North Kalimantan-Sabah border area is shabu. Fourth, the people involved in the drug network are a network of the same criminal organization.