scholarly journals Indonesian Human Resources Readiness in term of Facing the ASEAN Economic Community

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Cinintya Audori Fathin ◽  
Arika Bagus Perdana ◽  
Ayu Kartikasari ◽  
Dyah Ratih Sulistyastuti

This article explains about the dilemma which will be faced by Indonesia when the the MutualRecognition Arrangement (MRA) is implemented in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)by the end of 2015. The data which will be used to describe the existing condition of the human resources competitiveness in Indonesia in this article is the secondary data, such as Human Development Index (HDI); World Knowledge Competitiveness Index (WKCI); Global KnowledgeCompetitiveness Index (GKCI); Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI); Global InnovationIndex (GII); and The Networked Readiness Index. Where upon, these indices will be used asthe guidance to compare the human resources quality in Indonesia with Singapore, Malaysia,Thailand, and the other ASEAN countries.Based on the data analysis, these indices show thatIndonesian human resources are still far left behind in terms of competition with the other threeASEAN countries. It is feared that the weak competitiveness of human resources in Indonesiamay cause the infl ux of the foreign skilled workers in more signifi cant numberas a consequenceof the implementation of MRA.

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Khasanah ◽  
Prihartini Budi Astuti ◽  
Ika Neni Kristanti

This research attempts to analyze the effects of the economic integration of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) which was implemented since 2015. The impact analyzed is focused on investments made in Indonesia, both investments made by foreign investors and domestic investors. Another thing that was also highlighted in this study was the flow of exports and imports. This was also investigated because one of the policies contained in the agreement of the ASEAN economic community was the elimination of international trade barriers. In addition to the two things above, researchers also analyzed the influence of the ASEAN economic community on the use oflabor in Indonesia. The data analyzed in this study are secondary data obtained from the relevant agencies. The method used in this study is a different sample pair test. This method is used because the research conducted is comparing the conditions of investment, export-import and use of labor in Indonesia before and after the economic integration of the ASEAN Economic Community. At the end of this study, researchers will provide recommendations to the government regarding what should be done by the government to optimize investment activities, exports and use of local labor in Indonesia.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-45
Author(s):  
Sumitro Sumitro

Free trade agreement of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) immediately will beimplemented in the region. The four pillars of the AEC concept is a reference in the enforcementprocess. All member-states have made preparations including Indonesia. Small and Medium-sizedEnterprises also make preparations. The preparation of the Indonesian government in the deal andhow the measures taken to protect Small and Medium-sized Enterprises is a discussion in the review ofthis article. Policies made by the government, including the measures taken for businesses Small andMedium-sized Enterprises, still found some difficulties in implementation. Because entirely not goingwell then the nomination acceleration trade policies comprehensively needs to be activated immediatelyso that the various policy papers that the government made will be able to work together withentreperenurs. This study also found unrediness of national products, especially Small and Mediumsized Enterprises in competing due to human resources, inadequate infrastructure and the investmentclimate


Author(s):  
SAO CHANTOLA

The opportunities and challenges for Cambodia from the free flow of skilled labour in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) has been a topic of heated discussion amongst the general public, learners, researchers, skilled workers, people in charge of skilled labor, as Cambodia prepared to enter the ASEAN Economic Community at the end of 2015. A descriptive statistical analysis in the Statistical Package for the Social Science, version 23.0 shows that there is optimism on the participation of Cambodia in the AEC. Firstly, 81 per cent of respondents supported that free flow of skilled labour as an opportunity for Cambodians to participate in the job market in ASEAN. Secondly, 77 per cent of participants accepted that “Free flow of skilled labour in ASEAN offers opportunities for Cambodians to get well-paid jobs in the region of ASEAN.” Thirdly, 84 per cent of respondents agreed that “free flow of skilled labour in the ASEAN helps inspire local education”. However, there were challenges for Cambodia, indicated by 75 per cent of respondents thinking that the country lacks skilled labour to challenge other ASEAN professionals. 70 per cent of respondents considered the inflow of foreign skilled labour as a threat to local jobs seekers, while 81 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement “the imbalanced agreement implementation on skilled labour in ASEAN is Another barrier in ASEAN’s jobs finding for Cambodian skilled workers,” Toward the solutions to reduce the challenges and to better the opportunities for Cambodians, suggestions have been observed; firstly, 72 participants recommended that education reform, further vocations and trainings for Cambodians should be better improved. Secondly, 23 participants advised that creating more local jobs should be further done and thirdly, 21 participants commented that Cambodian skilled workers should improve their knowledge of the English language, as it is very important in Cambodia, the ASEAN and the world in pursuing their present and future’s studies and works.


Author(s):  
Ida Bagus Brata ◽  
A.A. Gde Putra Pemayun

The human resources capacity of Bali tourism is abundant, but in its management is still very far behind with neighboring countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, and other countries. This is due to the level of education that is still at the level of standards and facilities that are inadequate, resulting in a standard quality of tourism workforce, increased unemployment, decreased productivity, and less competitiveness in the face of competition among tourism workers in the ASEAN region and internationally. Indonesia with the other nine ASEAN member countries have signed the blueprint declaration of the ASEAN Economic Community to initiate an economic integration step. This makes Bali must strive to improve the quality of tourism human resources as well as enhance the competitiveness of tourism workforce in order to survive in the era of ASEAN free trade and globalization of the international labor market. Bali, in particular, should be able to focus and care about the problem of tourism work and immediately clean up to create a conducive climate to accelerate the movement of economic growth through tourism human resources. This can be done by improving education, improving health, conducting training and developing tourism workforce, providing adequate facilities, improving the labor structure, will encourage the quality of Bali tourism workforce to improve. If a country has the competitiveness and is able to compete in the regional and global arena then it can be assured that the tourism worker is able to achieve standardization and have a good reputation and will certainly increase the national tourism human resource index.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andi Suranta Meliala ◽  
Nazaruddin Matondang ◽  
Rahmi M Sari

The economy was one factor the progress of a country. Each country competing to increase the productivity of the economy. Indonesia's economy ranks 17 world. Economic growth in Indonesia is very significant that was not separated from the role of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that support the growth of exports and imports, one that can be seeded SMEs are SMEs manufacture of shoes. The role of SMEs that are so large and significant must always be maintained and developed to be able to compete in an era of global competition such as the implementation of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) in January 2015. Problems that interfere with the development and productivity of SMEs shoes, particularly around Medan city will be divided into 4 categories, namely: (1) human, (2) process, (3) facilities, and (4) Business competition. Based on this research, it is known that the most important issues that affect the development of SMEs in Medan shoe is its human resources. Solving these problems will be done with the Kaizen strategy (5S) which will be combined with the concept of training within industry (TWI) and the concept of P-Course. These improvements will result in strategies to increase the overall productivity of SMEs working with the primary focus is working and will evaluate the system works. This strategy is expected to fix the weaknesses of existing SMEs shoes, in order to face the global competition that will come.Keywords: Small medium enterprise (SMEs), kaizen, training within industry (TWI), pcourse concept, 5S conceptAbstrak Perekonomian adalah salah satu faktor kemajuan suatu negara. Setiap negara bersaing ketat untuk meningkatkan produktvitas perekonomiannya. Perekonomian Indonesia saat ini menempati urutan ke 17 dunia. Pertumbuhan ekonomi di Indonesia yang sangat signifikan ternyata tidak lepas dari peran dari usaha kecil dan menengah (UKM) yang menopang pertumbuhan ekspor dan impor, salah satu UKM yang bisa diunggulkan adalah UKM pembuatan sepatu. Peran UKM yang begitu besar dan signifikan harus terus dijaga dan dikembangkan untuk bisa bersaing pada era persaingan global seperti penerapan Masyarakat Ekonomi Asean (MEA) pada januari 2015. Permasalahan yang mengganggu perkembangan dan produktivitas dari UKM sepatu, khususnya di sekitar Kota Medan akan dibagi kedalam 4 kategori, yaitu:(1) manusia, (2) proses, (3) fasilitas, dan (4) Persaingan usaha. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, diketahui bahwa permasalahan yang paling utama yang mempengaruhi perkembangan UKM sepatu di Kota Medan adalah sumber daya manusianya. Pemecahan permasalahan ini akan dilakukan dengan strategi Kaizen (5S) yang akan dipadukan dengan konsep Training within industry (TWI) dan konsep P-Course. Perbaikan ini akan menghasilkan strategi-strategi untuk peningkatan produktivitas kerja UKM secara keseluruhan dengan fokus utama adalah pekerja dan sistem kerjanya. Strategi ini diharapkan mampu membenahi kelemahan UKM sepatu yang ada, guna menghadapi ketatnya persaingan global yang akan datang. Kata kunci: Usaha kecil dan menengah (UKM), kaizen, training within industry (TWI),konsep p-course, konsep 5S


Author(s):  
Hai Chi Nguyen ◽  
Trung Van Tra

The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) is a reliable basis to evaluate the level and competency of innovation and development of economies. The objective of this research is to analyze Vietnam’s GCI in comparison with the countries in ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in order to “locate” the economic position of Vietnam in the region. The result of the research shows that (i) There is an equivalence relation between the GCI and economic position of Vietnam in AEC; (ii) The limitations of Vietnam GCI are just the causes of the limitations and laggings in the current economy of Vietnam; (iii) The breakthrough for the development of Vietnam economy, shortening the economic gap of Vietnam among the countries in AEC, is necessary to have solutions to improve the competitiveness of economy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Abdul Hijar Anwar

At the end of 2015 the Asean Economic Community agreement came into effect which means that there will be a single ASEAN market and production base that has five basic elements, namely a) free flow of goods, b) free flow of services services), c) free flow of investment, d) free flow of capital, and e) free flow of skilled labor. In addition to the five basic elements, the single market and production base must also contain two important components, namely priority integration sectors (PIS) and the development of the food, agriculture and forestry sectors. In terms of the free flow of labor, not all workers can compete, the ASEAN economic community limits only to skilled workers. Through the 2015 ASEAN economic community, there will be job opportunities throughout ASEAN. Job seekers can easily enter and exit from one country to another without any obstacles from the recipient country. However, the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint limits only to skilled labor and there is no discussion about unskilled labor. In an effort to support the transfer of skilled workers, all ASEAN member countries signed an MRA (Mutual Recognition Arrangement) on November 19, 2007 consisting of 8 MRAs, including engineering services, architectural services, nurse services ( nursing services), medical practitioners, dental practitioners, accountants services, surveying services, and tourism professionals. So it is feared that Indonesian workers do not compete with foreign workers


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Edi Wahyu Wibowo

<p><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p><em>The ASEAN Economic Community was formed with the aim of achieving the perfection of economic integration in the ASEAN region which is believed to provide tangible benefits to all elements of society. Opportunities of digital economy and the pollination of each ASEAN country is very important to succeed the purpose of the establishment of The ASEAN Economic Community. This study uses quantitative methods with secondary data by panel period 2012-2016 by combining 10 ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Brunei, Laos, Cambodia). T test results obtained are the effect of digital variables on the GDP of ASEAN countries ie the probability value of t-statistics obtained 0.0420. Then the statistical probability &lt;α = 5% is 0.0420 &lt;0.05. So it can be concluded that digital variables partially have a positive significance to GDP variables. While the influence of openness to GDP growth of ASEAN countries is the probability value of t-statistics obtained 0.6386, then the statistical probability &lt;α = 5% is 0.6386&gt; 0.005. So it can be concluded that the variables of disclosure partially no effect on the significance of GDP variables. While the simultaneous F test result is the effect of digital variables and openness to GDP growth of ASEAN countries obtained Adjustted R-Squere value of 0.994. This shows that the model is able to explain 99.4% of the dependent variable, while the remaining 0.52 other factors influenced beyond the regression model. Digital influence on GDP growth of ASEAN countries is good so it needs to be improved to manage internet users. Internet users are expected not only as a consumer but also create business opportunities to make a star up (entrepreneur) for economic growth in each country can be improved. While the influence of openness to the growth of GDP of ASEAN countries needs to be improved especially in producing products that can be exported and reduce the import of goods, export and import tariff are also to be re-arranged so that grow export climate in each country. It is expected that openness will increase so much investment will be present so that ultimately the purpose of establishment of ASEAN Economic Community can prosper each ASEAN country.</em></p><strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong><em> Digital Economy, Openness, GDP, ASEAN</em>


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