Interaction Community in Indonesia – Philippines Border (Studies Crossing Borders in Sangihe Island)

This research takes a place in the region of Sangihe archipelago, with qualitative- research method, aimed to reveal the meaning of crossing border. The process of crossing will be deeply motivated and motivated through in-depth interviews, the observation process takes into account aspects of the cross border activities, the documents and literature related to crossings and policies are part of the data used. The entire data is then analyzed using spatial geography approach. The results found in this research revealed that the interaction is influenced by economic motive (dominant economic motive) and is the interaction of spatial unbalance between regions (imbalance interaction), Sangihe archipelago region showed dependence on economic aspect especially trade. The intensity of interactions marked by the border crossing activity found to be solid and massive between the two regions is measured by the frequency of crossings and laws and the supervision of the border areas ignored by the crosser's.