UPAYA KEMENTERIAN KOPERASI DAN UMKM (KUKM) INDONESIA DALAM MENGHADAPI PERSAINGAN EKONOMI DI ERA MASYARAKAT EKONOMI ASEAN, DALAM PEMBANGUNAN SEKTOR UMKM

This paper was formed with the aim of finding out more about every effort made by Indonesia in facing economic competition in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and to find out how the conditions of competition that occur between ASEAN member countries in the AEC. The ASEAN Economic Community is a derivative of the ASEAN economic pillar by carrying out the concept of a free market in which trade in goods, services and investment will be able to move freely. With the concept possessed by the AEC, this can lead to fairly fierce competition which will affect all ASEAN member countries as well as all business actors, both macro and micro businesses, and of course it will have a huge impact on Micro, Small Business actors. , Intermediate (UMKM). Indonesia itself recognizes that MSMEs are the backbone of the country's economy, Indonesia also realizes that economic competition arising from the AEC will have a considerable impact on MSME players. Therefore, Indonesia has made various efforts in the development of the MSME sector so that Indonesian MSMEs are able to compete and survive against economic competition in the AEC era. The author uses International Political Economy in the perspective of Liberalism as a theory to explain the discussion. In addition, in this paper the writer uses a descriptive research type with the data collection technique used in this research documentation study