PEMBUATAN PERJANJIAN KERJA SAMA SISTER CITY OLEH PEMERINTAH DAERAH: STUDI PERJANJIAN SISTER CITY DI KOTA SURABAYA DAN KOTA BUKIT TINGGI

Abstract

The making of Sister City cooperation treaties between the regional governments of Surabaya and Bukit Tinggi with their counterparts in other countries are arguably mentioned as an international  cooperations treaties that should be part of international laws. Different opinion further debates whether the making of sister city is subjected to public international laws or to a privat ones due to the reason that the regional governments are not a subject of international laws. Their position is actually as part of a national state which must completely respect the existence of the central government. In the making  of the Sister  City cooperation  treaties,  their existance is only to represent the central government as the subject of international laws. This article underlines that Law No.24/2000 on International Treaty, Law No. 32/2004,and Law No. 37/1999 on International Relations should be considered by all regional government in Indonesia in the making of Sister City.Thus, its process  cannot  ignore  consultations  and coordinations with, or the role of, the central government, particularly, the Foreign Ministry.