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LEGAL SECURITY IN INDONESIA, THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE OF MEA

Introduction

Legal security in indonesia, the biggest challenge of mea. Legal security is Indonesia's biggest challenge in the ASEAN Economic Community (MEA). Discusses investor confidence, bureaucracy, and the need for fair judicial support for MEA success.

Abstract

ASEAN Economic Community 2015 or Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN (MEA) will be established starting on December 31, 2015. The impact is that the opportunity in free trade of service and goods among ASEAN countries is widely open. In facing MEA, especially in Indonesia, supports from many different parties are needed, such as the business persons, government, community, and of course law becomes one of the props in running the economy in the country.Several problems and challenges that Indonesia currently face in implementing MEA namely are: there is lack of legal security for the business owners to ensure them to keep investing their business, the lack of readiness of businessmen in making agreements between themselves, slow service of bureaucracy and government commitment, and also the need of judiciary institution that can provide justice to all parties. Legal security is created through effective rules support, good faiths of the businessman, and law enforcers that fully support MEA since legal security in MEA is an absolute requirement.Key words: MEA, Law, Legal Security

Review

This paper addresses a highly pertinent and critical issue concerning Indonesia's preparedness for the ASEAN Economic Community (MEA) post-2015, specifically focusing on the paramount challenge of legal security. The abstract effectively highlights that while MEA opens significant opportunities for free trade in goods and services, Indonesia faces a series of interconnected obstacles. These include insufficient legal protection for investors, the unpreparedness of local businesses for inter-country agreements, bureaucratic inefficiencies, and a need for a more just judiciary system. The central argument posits that robust legal security, underpinned by effective regulations, ethical business conduct, and dedicated law enforcement, is an absolute prerequisite for Indonesia to fully leverage MEA. The abstract presents several strengths, primarily in its clear identification of key practical barriers to MEA implementation in Indonesia. By specifying challenges such as the lack of investment security, readiness in agreement-making, bureaucratic sluggishness, and judicial impartiality, the paper appears to offer a ground-level perspective on the operational difficulties. The emphasis on "legal security" as the core issue is well-placed, suggesting a foundational problem that, if unaddressed, could undermine other efforts. This focus promises a valuable contribution to understanding the socio-legal and economic impediments unique to Indonesia's integration into the regional economic bloc, moving beyond generic discussions of free trade benefits to pinpoint actionable problem areas. While the abstract clearly outlines the problems, a full review of the paper would need to assess the depth of its analysis and proposed solutions. Given the broad scope of challenges identified, the paper should ideally delve into the *causes* behind these issues, rather than merely enumerating them. For instance, what specific legal frameworks are lacking or insufficient? What are the systemic reasons for bureaucratic slowness or judicial impartiality? Furthermore, the abstract hints at solutions ("effective rules support, good faiths of the businessman, and law enforcers that fully support MEA"), but the paper would benefit from elaborating on concrete policy recommendations or legal reforms derived from its findings. A robust methodological approach, whether qualitative or quantitative, would also be essential to substantiate these claims and provide a compelling basis for the identified challenges and their proposed remedies.

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