Information and Communication-Based Governance : West Java's Anticipation in Facing ASEAN Economic Society

Keywords

ASEAN Economic Community, e-government, West Java, Indonesia

Abstract

This study investigates the efforts of West Java Government in facing the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by adopting the latest system of technology. This is based on the fact that the implementation of the AEC is both a challenge and an opportunity as well as a concern because many do not know the impact of the AEC. Internal impacts will be occurred in the employment sector competition while external impacts will be related to competition in terms of quality of the final product. If the quality of domestic product has a lower quality compared to that of foreign product, it will result in high imports. The contents of the AEC free trade agreement are assumed to threaten laborers and businesses in Indonesia, especially in West Java. This is in line with the decline in the level of Indonesia's readiness in facing the AEC. With a descriptive and qualitative approach, this study finds that the people of West Java are still not ready to face the AEC. There are a number of fundamental issues affecting West Java and should be addressed immediately. Less conducive investment environment that is indicated through the issues of bureaucracy, infrastructure, human resource quality and employment and that corruption is part of the problems that still exist in the Government of West Java. Nevertheless, the Government has been optimal in adopting technology, namely e-government.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fatma Diah Sjoraida
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Information and Communication-Based Governance : West Java's Anticipation in Facing ASEAN Economic Society
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Transformation in Communications 2017 (IcoTiC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 309
EP  - 317
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25902412
ID  - Sjoraida2017/11
ER  -