HUMAN CAPITAL CHALLENGES IN INDONESIA AND WELCOME ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (AEC) in 2015

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Charter and ASEAN blueprint towards the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015, has
been agreed by the members, characterized by  a new round of joint commitment that is legally
binding. AEC Blueprint will give direction of ASEAN as a regional production base and single
market. The blueprint is supported by the five essential pillars namely: the free flow of goods,
services, investment, skilled labor, and freer flow  of capital. Efforts to realize the ASEAN as a
regional production base and single market is certainly provides a lot of great opportunities and
challenges for Indonesia. In this regard, the  main sectors which require improvement are
professional human capital and competent. Without improvements in this sector, efforts to achieve
the Indonesian government for human capital to compete with other countries in Southeast Asia
will be difficult. Therefore, in facing such competition, the Indonesian government should prepare
a Human Resources (HR) were skilled, intelligent and competitive that Indonesian human
resources able to compete.