THE ARRANGEMENT AND SPECIAL TREATMENT OF ISLAND PROVINCE AREAS IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM

Act 25 A of the Indonesian Fundamental Statute of 1945 then called as UUD NRI of 1945, stated that the Unity Country of Republic Indonesian is islands country characterized by archipelago with areas, borders and rights decided by statute. Indonesia is also known as coastal state consisted of lands, seas, and air space, where two-third of its areas is seas. In local autonomy era, the local governments have opportunity to develop their province areas based on: (a) There are 60% people or 140 million people live in coastal areas, where twenty two percent (22%) of them live in coastal villages and remote islands that far from governmental development; (b), The developmental policy approach in Indonesia has applied developmental approach of areas orienting on lands areas however in fact that Indonesia is islands country, thus it need different approach to develop the island provinces; (c), The difficulties in Areas Controlling pattern. In the province with land areas, communication is easier than communication in province with islands; (d), the difficulties of local government is in empowering small islands in this province especially the islands are in border areas; (e), the people of islands are isolated and far from development. The legal issue in this study covers the arrangement and special treatment of islands province in the local government system. The arrangement and special treatment on the islands province are based on what stated in the Statute No. 23 of 2014 on the Local Government has not arranged in special way of islands province.