Conflict and Insurgency: National Security Threats in the Indonesian Defense and Security Sector

Abstract

The development of information and telecommunications technology, as well as transportation technology accelerates the flow of information, global financial flows, and human mobility. These various phenomena of change are not impossible to bring excesses that have the potential to become a threat to the security of a country. The process to realize national integration often faces various threats. One of the threats to national integration is in the field of defense and security. The threat of non-state actors currently appears in various forms, these forms of non-conventional threats are called asymmetric warfare, including insurgency. The research method used is a qualitative method with secondary data sources. Conflict and insurgency as a form of threat faced threaten national defense in the perspective of Indonesia's national security and defense and security, it is necessary to have an in-depth study of the views of conflict and insurgency in order to get attention so that Indonesia's national security defense can be maintained. The development of defense and security is primarily aimed at upholding state sovereignty, maintaining the territorial integrity of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia, safeguarding the safety of the entire nation from military and non-military threats, increasing a sense of security and comfort as a guarantee of a conducive investment climate, as well as maintaining order and law enforcement in society.