Indonesian Challenge and Strategy in Dealing with ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)

Challenge faced by Indonesia for ASEAN economic integration is not only internal but competition between ASEAN countries and other countries outside ASEAN. Other challenge is Indonesian inflation rate is still higher compared to other countries in the area of ASEAN. There are some fundamental problems to be faced by Indonesia in order to deal with MEA (AEC) 2015. One, high invisible unemployment; two, low new entrepreneurs for accelerating expansion of work opportunity; three, Indonesian worker is dominated by uneducated workers so that their productivity are low; four, increasing unemployment number of educated workers; five, discrepancy of economic inter-sector worker productivity; six informal sector dominates vocation; seven, unemployment in Indonesia is the highest unemployment from 10 ASEAN countries; eight, problems faced by workers, such as minimum wage, contractual worker, and social insurance of employment; nine, problem of Indonesian workers in foreign countries.