THE WAY OF PEOPLE IN THE BORDERLAND EXPLOITING ISLAND ASSETS AND MARITIME RESOURCES (STUDY IN AJIKUNING VILLAGE SEBATIK ISLAND NORTH KALIMANTAN PROVINCE THE BORDERLINE OF INDONESIA AND SABAH MALAYSIA)

Abstract

Border people to build economic network as a social solidarity for the interests economic resources tenure for the welfare his life. Mapping to networks trade in Sebatik Island shows interlinked network between social, political, cultural, kinship and ethnic groups. They are integrated in a economic activity in the border, which is referred to as the process Malayindonesia.As a cultural system, the market keep dynamics socio-cultural community at the border. The market is not just an entity that sustains the economic sustainability by bringing together sellers and buyers, but has a responsibility and a much more complex functions. The related countries especially the local politic institutions provide more opportunity to the borderlander developing a flexible market for borderland trade regulation. This research presents a economic activities that are full with various social interaction, as an arena cultural activities and political expression.It describes in depth the economic activities Sebatik-Nunukan North Kalimantan, which is integrated with market TawauSabah region of Malaysia. Local perceptions of cultural meanings attributed to state borders in how a particular international border is used by specific groups of people. The description is centered on the market as an arena for the transaction. The market becomes the entry point to map economic life of border communities. The objective of the study was to explain the way of Border communities exploiting the livelihood assets in their Island and Maritim resources in Sebatik Island North Kalimantan.The results of the study revealed that strategies across borders is a rational choice, and that the border communities often use their ethnicity and dual citizenship to trade across the border. Holders of dual citizenship on the Indonesia-Malaysian border use the documents of the state to their personal advantage, producing their identity cards to facilitatetheir border crossings. The study recommended that, anthropological studies find there are various socio-cultural dimension in cross-border economic is not only an economic dimension alone. Actions by market participants are ambivalent in regulation on cross-border trade can not be interpreted as having no nationalism