Proceeding – Open Society Conference 2018 273 Subtheme 5: Government And Leadership In Digital Era Integrating Government Studies And International Relation Studies To Enhance International Cooperation By Regional Government Mani Festati Broto mani@ecampus.ut.ac.id Anto Hidayat anto@ecampus.ut.ac.id Siti Nuraini sitinurainiwahyu@gmail.com ABSTRACT This article focuses on paradiplomacy, the concept used to indicate the increasing activities and practices of regional government in international cooperation. This research shows that increasing international cooperation by regional government with its decentralization and regional autonomy are realized in various types and forms; it is even more responsive to changes influenced by global issues. International cooperation was initially done in what is called “intervention government”, but then it is done by regional government involving the community independently. Keywords: paradiplomacy, regional government, international cooperation International cooperation as well as international relation activities by regional government has becoming clear. Cooperation like sister city/sister province that has been in existence for so long 47 , is increasing in various forms and types in the era of decentralization and regional autonomy. The increase was triggered by a number of both internal and external factors. External factors are mainly due to globalization and the advancement of information 47 Sister city program between Bandung and Braunschweig, Germany has been initiated since May 24, 1960, CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Universitas Terbuka Repository