Implementation of Indonesias foreign policy in Asean Economic Community (MEA)

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10.2991/icosop-17.2018.74How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mea, Foreign Policy, Asian

Abstract

Indonesia's foreign policy in Asian Economic Society (MEA) is the embodiment of free-market principles in accordance with liberal economics thinking. The subject of implanting MEA comes to the forefront due to the government's unpreparedness through its ministry and other related institution. The readiness of businesses to take advantage of export opportunities to ASEAN market needs hard work from the government in preparing workshops as a training ground for skilled labor. Funding from banking institutions also does not seem to be a driving force for local export products. Cooperation between central, provincial, regency/municipal government still needs to be improved in order to implement foreign policies on MEA in all regions as one whole chain.This is apparent during the research into secondary data in North Sumatra Province and also in deep-diving interviews with related government officials and businesses. The proses of acquiring data are conducted in a descriptive analytics manner but the researcher preludes this by looking into profiles that have been done by North Sumatra provincial government through various media such as newspaper, online news outlet, and television which has been lacking. Information around steps and policies to be taken by the North Sumatra provincial government is not shown or described in the North Sumatra Government's website.In the future, a more concrete policy education from the central to local government is needed regarding potential business opportunity arising from the MEA cooperation. Local government is expected to be more proactive in obtaining more directions from central government. Furthermore, conducting a comparative study on MEA implementation in other provinces. On the other side, local government is also taking initiative for proactive utilization of MEA for local businesses.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rosmery Sabri
AU  - Evi Yunita Kurniaty
PY  - 2017/12
DA  - 2017/12
TI  - Implementation of Indonesias foreign policy in Asean Economic Community (MEA)
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social and Political Development (ICOSOP 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 478
EP  - 487
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icosop-17.2018.74
DO  - 10.2991/icosop-17.2018.74
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