ix Abstract
ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is South East Asia mutual collaboration that will be started in 2015. Indonesia has shown her readiness on some sectors. But, still, while sits on the third rank of the ASEAN market leaders, Indonesia has to develop more because she has to compete against other ASEAN countries that has been developing so well these years.
Through this thesis, the writer wants to describe how Indonesian export-import condition in years 2008-2012 dealing with MEA in year 2015, the readiness, the opportunity and the challenges.
The research resulted in the insatifaction. The fact that Indonesia is 4rd market leaders in the ASEAN countries cannot guarantee that Indonesia will be ready to face that free trade season in 2015. Some sectors like logistics and infrastructure is not ready because it has not been developed efficiently. Beside, in 2008 to 2015, Indonesia still suffer from the insufficiency compared to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. It resulted in Indonesia’s incapability of competing with other ASEAN countries due to the dependable industries to the raw material.
Key Word : AEC ( ASEAN Economic Community) , Indonesia, ASEAN
Saripati
AEC (ASEAN Economic Community) atau yang lebih sering disebut MEA merupakan
kerjasama di Asia Tenggara yang akan di laksanakan 2015 mendatang. Di beberapa sektor
sudah menunjukan kesiapaan namun masih banyak hal yang harus di benahi agar Indonesia
mampu bersaing dengan negara-negara di kawasan ASEAN walaupun saat ini posisi Indonesia
berada di urutan ke 3 yang mendominasi perdagangan di ASEAN.
Penelitian ini ingin mengambarkan bagaimana kondisi ekspor-impor Indonesia 2008-2012
dalam menghadapi MEA 2015 mendatang, baik di lihat dari kesiapaannya, peluang dan
tantangan.
Hasil penelitian ini posisi Indonesia yang berada di urutan ke 4 belum cukup memuaskan
karena beberapa sektor seperti sektor logistik dan infrastruktur belum efisien dan belum mampu
menghadapi pasar bebas mendatang. Di samping itu jika dlihat neraca perdagangan Indonesia ke
ASEAN selama 5 tahun ( 2008-2012) masih mengalami defisit dengan Singapura, Malaysia dan
Thailand sehingga bisa di lihat bahwa ekspor Indonesia belum mampu bersaing karena
industri-industri di Indonesia masih bergantung dengan bahan baku impor.
