ASEAN Still Advantageous

It has not been proven that ASEAN free trade will hurt Indonesia, but Chinese products are already flooding the markets.

September 14, 2004

THIS year the South East Asia free trade area enters its third period. A whole pile of items on the agenda still needs to be straightened out by member countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in order to achieve the long awaited free trade era. This is because, “ASEAN integration in the economic sector is still far from expectations,” said Pos Hutabarat, the Director General for Industrial Cooperation and Inte

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