Asean Economic Community Challenging and Opportunity For Indonesian Graduate

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was established in 1967. It is a large economic block in Asia. ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is the goal of regional economic integration of ASEAN countries by 2015, as stated by the heads of the ASEAN governments back in 2007 at the 13th Singapore Summit. To this end of year 2015, the AEC envisages to transform ASEAN into a region with “free movement of goods, services, investment, and skilled labor”. ASEAN Comprising of 10 countries and the region boasts a population of over 600 million. Among several numbers of universities in ASEAN countries that produce graduates every year, some placed in top ranking in the world. The implementation of AEC will impact on jobs opportunity for the graduates in all over ASEAN countries. Competition and challenging to find good jobs among graduated student is one of the issues because of skilled people being free to work in all ASEAN countries. Challenging and opportunity for Indonesian graduates is focused in this paper, as well as several suggestion and solution in order to get good jobs in overseas countries. High competition for all of graduate student in ASEAN countries make home university prepare the entire student that should be ready with challenging by preparing extra skill and key point to every students