Indonesia's Challenges and Strategies for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)

Main Author: Nurhayati, Dies
Format: Article info application/pdf Journal
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: jfpublshier , 2022
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Online Access: https://journal.jfpublisher.com/index.php/jssh/article/view/20
https://journal.jfpublisher.com/index.php/jssh/article/view/20/19
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  • The challenges Indonesia faces in the ASEAN economic integration process are not only internal, but also competition between ASEAN countries and other countries outside ASEAN. Another challenge is that Indonesia's inflation rate is still higher than other countries in the ASEAN region. There are some fundamental issues that Indonesia needs to face in its response to MEA (AEC) 2015. First, the hidden unemployment rate is high; second, low-level entrepreneurs are accelerating the expansion of job opportunities; third, Indonesian workers are mainly uneducated workers, and their productivity is low; fourth, the number of educated unemployed is increasing; Differences in productivity; 6. The informal sector dominates occupations; 7. The unemployment rate in Indonesia is the highest among the 10 ASEAN countries; 8. Issues such as minimum wage, contract labor, employment and social insurance faced by workers; 9. Indonesian workers abroad The problem. From the aforementioned explanation, government should immediately prepare strategic steps to deal with challenge and threat from AEC by devising and reforming national policies aiming to stimulate and increase competitive of human resources and industry