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SPECIAL REPORT
Illegal SmallArms Trade, Armed Violence, and Human Security at the land Border in Papua, Indonesia
By Melyana R Pugu - Border Researcher and senior Lecturer from International Relations Department of Cenderawasih University Papua Indonesia
The globalization has transformed national territory into borderless environment and increased crossborder connectivity, free flow of goods and peoples mobilization. At the same time, it equally offers similar opportunities for crossborder crime and others illegal activity that could endanger national and international peace and stability. The illegal small arms
Border Security Report | July/August 2020
trade has attracted increased global attention from international organization, national government, policy analysts, and researchers. This attention mainly due to the misuse of small arms to cause death and injury, particularly from armed conflict. Definitely no single country is safe from this transnational threats and the possible effect. Small arms misuse increased from 171,000 peoples in
