| Summary: | The purpose of this study was to determine the delay of Indonesia in
cooperation signing economic partnership with Japan, or better known as the
EconomicPartnership Agreement (EPA). This delay benchmarks when compared
withcountries in Southeast Asia, like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines,
andBrunei Darussalam. Japan Economic Partnership is a form of efforts to
improve free trade andinvestment cooperation. Bids economic partnership with
Japan's cooperation tocooperation partner countries in Southeast Asia alone has
rolled from 2000, but the Indonesian Government response to efforts to follow up
such cooperation tends to be slow when compared to its neighboring countries of
Southeast Asia region. The delaywill then affect the credibility of Indonesia as a
founding member of ASEAN and has astrategic role for Japan. Delays in
Indonesia is due to the factors that tendency comes from Indonesia's owninternal
state, whether the problem Infrastructure, Human Resources, as well
asperformance ditataran Indonesia inefficient bureaucracy. Given this research it
isexpected that the Indonesian Government could make improvements to the
factorsthat weaken the position of Indonesia's competitiveness in Southeast Asia
and International.
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