Should everything go as planned, by 2015 ASEAN will be launching its ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) set of principles, in which economies of ASEAN states will be more integrated. Are there lessons to be learned from the European Union case? Economist Yohanes Sulaiman, a lecturer at the IndonesianNational Defense University sounds out some caveats.

The ASEAN Secretariat recently declared that "the elimination of tariffs, free movement of profession