Infrastructure Development in Border Areas; Who Benefits?

The development of the border area actually has the aim that the border area is developed and prosperous.For this reason, the government launched five infrastructure development programs, namely road infrastructure, markets infrastructure, agriculture infrastructure, health infrastructure and education infrastructure.In fact, the five programs aimed at border areas do not all have a positive impact on economic performance in the region, but instead have a positive impact for the economic performance of non-border regions.This research was conducted in provinces that have borders with neighboring countries, then divided into border and non-border areas, including the Kalimantan corridor, East Nusa Tenggara corridor and Papua corridor.The study covers the year is 2015-2022, the year when the government launched Nawacita as the basis for development in the border area.This study employed Panel Data Regression.The results show that only agricultural and education infrastructure have a positive impact on GDP per capita and HDI in border areas, but poverty reduction has not been achieved.Health infrastructure, which is actually aimed at the disputed area, in fact has a positive influence on non-border areas.The study found evidence of spillover effects from border to non-border areas.