Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

Abstrak

West Java Government’s Socialization of ASEAN Economic Community

This study investigates West Java government’s efforts in disseminating the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) to the community. This was based on the fact that the enforcement of the AEC was a challenge and an opportunity to be concerned because there were many who do not know the impact of the AEC. Internal impacts would be felt in the employment sector competition while the external impact would be related to the competition in terms of the qualities of the final products from another region in which if the quality of domestic products have a lower quality would lead to a high import content. A free trade agreement of AEC would allegedly threaten the labors and businesses in Indonesia, especially in West Java. This was in line with the decline in the level of readiness of Indonesia in facing the AEC. With descriptive and qualitative approaches, this study found that West Java was still not ready to face the ASEAN Economic Community. There were a number of fundamental issues affecting West Java and must be addressed immediately. The investment climate which less conducive indicated through the intricacies of the problem of bureaucracy, infrastructure, the qualities of human resources issues and employment (labor) and that corruption was part of the problems, were still holding the government of West Java. Such unpreparedness was resulted from the fact that an understanding of the AEC was not evenly spread signaling that the government had not optimal in the socialization. It was because that the government itself had not put this AEC issue as a top priority. Finally, there was the absence of a comprehensive evaluation process of AEC socialization activities.