Kerja Sama Luar Negeri oleh Pemerintah Daerah (Sister City) antara Kota Medan dengan Kota Gwangju

Abstract

Sister City has become a development instrument of Medan since 1997 for its development acceleration rare. However, until 2023 Sister City cooperation between Medan and Gwangj11 had been categorized as ineffective cooperation in its implementation. This was because, in reality, the cooperation was only in education, Student Exchange program each year. Referring to this problem, a deep analysis is needed on the factors which influence the implementation of Sister City cooperation between the two cities in 26 yeas. lt seems that it has no significant impact on the development of Medan. Discursive Neo-institutionalism tmd lnstilutionalism is closely related to find out the factors which influenced the implementation of the Sister City cooperation between the two cities in which values, norms, structure, and management of development are done ad facilitated by the role and the function of institution as the actor in the Sister City Cooperation. The research uses qualitative method. It discusses and solves the research problems by normative and empirical approaches. The data are analyzed by using data reduction, ata presentation, and drawing conclusion. The result of the research shows that there is an institutional function in the sister city cooperation in the international politics which is not done by the institulion as the actor of the cooperation ClS follows: 1) Coordinative function which consists of the factor of Commitment to Link, Leadership, Structure, and Management, Communication, and Monitoring and Evaluation, 2) Communicative fimction of institution. The problems are analyzed through Discursive Institutional theory in which the role of the actor in the Institution is to implement the policy which needs idea and discourse. ln this case, the idea is the groups of materials and discourse as the process in implementing the materials {Vivien A. Schemidt, 2017).