We’re worried that our ASEAN’s youth still lack awareness skills and knowldege to compete facing ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) this year. We will facing it by the end of this year. We just need more spirit, more education and training. As we know, from 600 million, there are fully 60 percent of ASEAN’s population are youth.

      

      The four ASEAN countries which have gross domestic product per capita values higher than the ASEAN average of US$3,770 are Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, and Thailand. Despite countries such a the Philippines and Vietnam recording lower-than-average GDP per capita values of US$2,765 and US$1,911 respectively, these countries have shown consistent positive growth over the years (establishmentpost.com). It is critical to know what AEC is and understand how it will affect Indonesia as well as the other nine countries. One advantage of an integrated economic community is that movement of goods, services, investments and professionals will be much easier. However, this doesn’t mean that ASEAN countries will be treated as one. Each country is free to have its own regulation related to their local domestic movement.