Challenge and Opportunity in the Implementation of ASEAN Economic Community in West Sumatera

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discover the challenge and opportunity in the implementation of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in West Sumatera region. The existence of AEC drives the countries in ASEAN region to improve their economy in order to face the global competition. This research uses normative law method, which is a qualitative research method utilizing content analysis of secondary data. The research result shows that Indonesia is one of the countries which prepares their self-quality to take AEC opportunity and increases their economic capacity so that they can take place on the competition among other ASEAN countries. In the implementation of AEC, there are also some leading sector potentials to become the opportunity to West Sumatera province. The opportunity taken by West Sumatera can generate risk which becomes a challenge that must be faced by Indonesia in general and West Sumatera in specific. Keywords—opportunity; challenge; implementation; AEC