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Increasing the Role and Coordination of Lokpri District in Border Area Development

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The border area management approach is expanded with a prosperity approach, in addition to a security approach. This is due to concerns that society's economic insecurity will lead to insecurity in the defense sector. The way of looking at the country's territory has also changed, which is no longer inward looking but more outward looking, thus placing the border Lokpri as the "front porch" of the country's territory.

The main problem in improving welfare in border areas, including the State Border Lokpri, is the problem of remoteness (isolation), due to regional infrastructure constraints, generally not having connected roads, such as what happens in border areas in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province. In the case of the border area in Serdang Bedagai (Sergai) Regency in North Sumatra (North Sumatra) Province, the problem is the pier in Lokpri Tanjung Beringin District, while on Berhala Island, the wave-blocking structure and dredging of the Sei Rampah River estuary.

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