As part of communication department of an organization in my
college, I often open this org social media. Like in its facebook, I know
whoever who send friend requests, send messages and of course see the
notifications of this occount. Someday, someone invites this account to like a
page with name (sorry, I
forget what). Basically, this page is about Asean Economic Community (AEC),
which is set to be implemented in 2015 (next year). While I was astounded to
hear about this important issue for the first time, I hear the Thai youngsters
had been getting ready for quite some time. Discourses about AEC had been
around for quite a while in many universities in Thailand.
Then I
looked for this issue to google and got e-book with title “MENUJU ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (AEC) 2015” which is made by Trading Department of Republic of
Indonesia. I read that the AEC blueprint of a single-market ASEAN was released
in 2007 and since then ASEAN governments as well as the regional leaders have
been working to fulfil its requirement. Progress, however, has been slow. It
has been six years after the blueprint release but only 77.5% of the targets
has been achived and now there is only one year left to complete the remaining
22.5%. This apparent drag has been had negative effect on the confidence of
major business leaders in ASEAN in facing the future single market sistem.
In spite of the sufficient coverage about AEC in
local Indonesian media, I believe many Indonesian college students and
graduates are not aware of this issue. The articles and news on AEC rarely show
up in the social media channels I use. Rather in my college (Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa), I never heard
this issue being discussed anywhere, even in campus canteens and public place anymore.
Isn’t this an important issue for us, Indonesian
young generation, to know? I am afraid that we are too focused on our own
private agendas and the presidential election hullabaloos that we fail to see
the major change ahead of us.
Although Indonesia will not be a favorite place to work due to lack of public infrastructure and the relatively low wage, still a new nature of competition is inevitable. As ASEAN officially becomes a single market in early 2015, the labour market in each ASEAN country will be more crowded and may require much higher qualifications, especially in multinational companies (MNCs), where English proficiency and regional (net)working experience will soon become a must.
In my opinion, public awareness regarding this issue has to be taken more seriously. If we do not have a firm stance to face the soon-to-be-opened dam, we can be brought away by the stream and drowned. The urgency of this matter should not be limited by the local media’s lack of interest to make it their headline—as the political drama of 2014 election seems more appealing to the news readers. Thus, everybody should start talking about this, especially the Indonesian young generation, who have a big stake on the matter. We can make use of our social media channels to deliberately spread the urgency as most of us use have already been using them liberally.
Although Indonesia will not be a favorite place to work due to lack of public infrastructure and the relatively low wage, still a new nature of competition is inevitable. As ASEAN officially becomes a single market in early 2015, the labour market in each ASEAN country will be more crowded and may require much higher qualifications, especially in multinational companies (MNCs), where English proficiency and regional (net)working experience will soon become a must.
In my opinion, public awareness regarding this issue has to be taken more seriously. If we do not have a firm stance to face the soon-to-be-opened dam, we can be brought away by the stream and drowned. The urgency of this matter should not be limited by the local media’s lack of interest to make it their headline—as the political drama of 2014 election seems more appealing to the news readers. Thus, everybody should start talking about this, especially the Indonesian young generation, who have a big stake on the matter. We can make use of our social media channels to deliberately spread the urgency as most of us use have already been using them liberally.
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yare~yare~
this is actually not my real write :3
some of these are my words, some got by Indonesian article translated and some from copied from this :(
but it is great issue, right??
SO, I write here to give you that information
Be preparing people!
Ganbatte ne mina~
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