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The international land border of Indonesia  is notably complex due to the development disparity between neighboring countries. Malaysia is known to be more developed, while Indonesia situation is relatively more developed in comparison to Timor Leste and Papua New Guinea.  The given situation have been the background the complex socio-economic feature that basically marks the population push and pull situation that involves people and  goods. The people-commodity complexity is particulalrly apparent in the Indonesia Malaysia due to development disparity of the two countries. The study was carried out with qualitative approach, using focus group discussion, in-depth interview and field observation. The study  observes  that border community development  needs to be based on three basic issues : the development public services, the the issue of vulnerability of transit citizens, the socio economic vulnerability that stems from lucrative ilegal commodity exchanges  between country borders.  This study  concludes that  mounting need for social development and social protection serving partuclar  needs of population at the international border sufficient strengthening of the government instirution that covers legal, instituional and human resource capacity development.

social vulnerability, locality development , border areas, ASEAN