Ability of Community Policing (Polmas) in its Contribution to Resolve Conflicts between Communities in the Perspective of Interactive Governance

Abstract

Landis and Albert [1](2012) noted that there has been a significant increase of various conflicts in this globe, one of which was conflict between communities. This happened in Alor regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. Regarding this conflict, POLRI issued Grand Strategi Polri. To understand the implementation of this policy, a prespective of interactive governance was used, developed by Kooiman et al [2], by encountering it to a conflict phenomenon occuring in Alor. The research result proposes a prosition which is: “Polmas (Community Policing) contribution in resolving conflict between communities in the perspective of interactive governance will be succesful if intensifying services, communication to public and performing protection to the concerned parties”. This research also proposes a model, which is: Model of Community Policing (Polmas) ability to contribute to resolve conflict between communities in the perspective of interactive governance.

Keywords: Conflict, Governance, Model