SIDENRENG RAPPANG VERSUS

MASYARAKAT EKONOMI ASEAN

Barisan
PO Box 91651, Sidrap-Sout Sulawesi, Indonesia
E-mail: uchenklppmstisip@yahoo.co.id

Muhammad Rohady Ramadhan

Ahmad Mustanir

Dep. Of Government, The Social and Political Science College

Muhammadiyah Rappang

Abstract
Barisan, Muh. Rohady Ramadhan and Ahmad Mustanir, 2016. Sidenreng Rappang Versus Asean Economic
Community (AEC) 2016. This study aims to identify strengths and weaknesses as well as opportunities and
challenges of the Sidenreng Rappang district government in the implementation of the Asean economic
community policy (AEC) 2016. In addition to identifying the research, this study also aims to find the
government’s strategic steps in addressing these challenges.The results of this study indicate that although
Sidenreng Rappang has the strength and opportunity, also known weaknesses and challenges are quite
large. The weakness which is also a big challenge is the low capacity of human resources owned by it, the
government of Sidenreng Rappang is expected to make development strategy and protection strategy to
overcome it.
Keywords: Sidrap, AEC.

BACKGROUND The development vision of Sidenreng

In the 21st century the internationalization
of the activities of the world community
in almost all fields will increase and lead
us to developments in the interconnected
phenomena among the countries of the world.
Developments in technology and patterns of
economic activity make people in the world
increasingly touching each other, need each
other, mutually determine the fate of each other,
but also compete with each other.
The long term development vision of Sidenreng
Rappang Regency in 2005-2025 as stated in
Regional Regulation Number 26 Year 2007
"The Realization of Sidenreng Rappang as
One of the Leading
Regencies in East Indonesia in 2025”. With
three advantages: 1) As the center of agribusiness
development, 2) As an independent region,
and 3) Having a cultured and religious
society. ASEAN Summit in January 2007, the Leaders
Rappang Regency 2014- 2018 “The Realization
of Sidenreng Rappang The Foremost and
Leading One with Religious Society With
Increasing Double Income”.
In December 1997 a summit was held in
Kuala Lumpur, the ASEAN leaders decided
to turn ASEAN into a stable, prosperous and
highly competitive region with just economic
development, and reduce poverty and socio-
economic inequality (ASEAN Vision 2020).
At the Bali Summit in October 2003, ASEAN
leaders stated that the ASEAN Economic
Community (MEA) will be the goal of regional
economic integration by 2020, the ASEAN
Security Community and the ASEAN Socio-
Cultural Community are two inseparable
pillars of the ASEAN Community. All parties
are expected to work strongly in building the
ASEAN Community by 2020. At the 12th

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affirmed their strong commitment to accelerate
the establishment of ASEAN Community by
2015 proposed in ASEAN. Vision 2020 and
ASEAN Concord II, and signed the Cebu
Declaration on Accelerating the Establishment
of ASEAN Community by 2015 In
particular, the leaders agreed to accelerate
the establishment of the ASEAN Economic
Community in December 2015, in which the
AEC has five main pillars:
1. Free flow of goods
2. Free flow of services
3. Free investment flow
4. Free flow of skilled labor
5. Free capital flow
President Joko Widodo insists Indonesia
is ready to face the AEC. “We must be ready
and optimistic able to face the MEA. I met the
leaders of the ASEAN head of state and they
were also afraid of the power of Indonesia. So,
we must be ready to take advantage of the AEC”.
To understand clearly the strategies that
should be applied in the face of any changes
can be done by first doing the analysis in depth.
Rare appropriate analysis to do is to use the
SWOT analysis method (Strenght, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, Threats).
Based on the above discussion, the
researcher conducted the research with the
theme “Sidenreng Rappang Versus ASEAN
Economic Community (AEC)”. The purpose
of this research is to find a good strategy model
for the government in facing the challenges and
opportunities of AEC?
LITERATURE REVIEW
Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN (MEA)
dan Daya Saing Investasi Indonesia (Usman,
2016). Perubahan Perdagangan Bebas ke
Integrasi ASEAN (Changes Free Trade to ASEAN
Integration) (Rahim & Taufiq, 2015). Potret
UMKM Indonesia Menghadapi Masyarakat
Ekonomi ASEAN (Tedjasuksmana, 2014).
mempersiapkan Sumber Daya Manusia
Indonesia Dalam Menghadapi Masyarakat
Ekonomi ASEAN Tahun 2015 (Pramudyo,
2014). Optimalisasi Pemanfaatan Teknologi
Informasi Komunikasi Berbasis E-Commerce as
media Pemasaran Usaha Kecil Menengah Guna
Shifting Dynamics of Social Politics:The Implication
for Policy Making and Comunity Empowerment
Meningkatkan Daya Saing Dalam Menghadapi
masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN 2015 (Ramadhani
& Arifin, 2013). Implementasi Kurikulum 2013
Dalam Mempersiapkan Sumber Daya Manusia
Indonesia Menghadapi “Masyarakat Ekonomi
ASEAN” (ASEAN Economic Community)
pada 2015 (Afandi, 2014).
The analysis of the local government
strategy of Sidenreng Rappang Regency in
facing the challenge of implementing the
ASEAN economic community is done by using
SWOT analysis method (Strength, Weekeness,
Opportunities, threat). SWOT analysis is a tool
used to identify various internal and external
environmental factors systematically allegedly
influencing or influenced by the organization so
that will produce the formulation of strategy of
sorganization (Nurmandi, 2010).
FINDING AND DISCUSSIONS
SWOT Analysis of Sidenreng Rappang Regency
Formulating the government strategy of
Sidenreng Rappang to face the challenge of
Asean economic community (AEC) is done
by using SWOT analysis method (Strength,
Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) in
several sectors. Sidenreng Rappang District
Government is expected to be able to make
strategic policies that are more in line with the
strengths and opportunities that are possible
to be applied. Based on SWOT analysis, it is
concluded that the strategy analysis focused
on the food security sector in Sidenreng
Rappang Regency which consists of agriculture,
plantation, animal husbandry and fishery.
a. Agricultural Sector
Aquaculture Development has shown an
upward trend over the last 5 (five) years. In 2009
the area of development of 148.04 Ha
increased to 382.84 Ha in 2013. While the area
of rice Cultivation has decreased area. In 2009
the total area reached 237.44 Ha to 224.96 Ha
in 2013. 1) Strength (Large rice field area, good
irrigation, and Government support through
irrigation dam development 2) Weakness
(Low human resources owned by farmers and
Behavior of the people who feel prestige to
farm) 3) Opportunities (The high demand of
the general public on agricultural products and
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the high demand from outside) 4) Challenges
(Lack of supply of subsidized fertilizers from
the government and many pest disorders not
followed by toxic pesticide inventory).
b. Plantation Sector
Plantation commodity is the second highest
contributor (2) in supporting the GRDP in
agriculture sector which is 4.53% this year.
Compared to the previous year, commodities
slowed by 2% from 6.50% to 4.53%. 1) Strength
(large plantation area, existence of community
with gardening, fertile plantation land), 2)
weakness (lack of community human resources
on plantation, lack of socialization from related
apparatus, frequent crop failure due to long dry
season) 3) Opportunities (Increased Production
Outcomes / Great Opportunities Opportunity
for Marketing of Plantation Products,
Widespread Employment Opportunities), and
4) Challenges (Often Dry Drought, Lack of
Public Interest for Gardening, Lots of Land
Used as Citizen Settlements).
c. Livestock Sector
The livestock sector is the pre- eminent
sector in Sidenreng Rappang Regency after
agriculture this can be seen with the number of
farms, both large livestock and small livestock.
It is also known as an egg producer. The types of
cattle that exist in Sidenreng Rappang District
are: Cow, buffalo, horse and goat. While the
types of poultry are: free chicken, laying chicken
layer, broiler and duck. 1) Strength (Availability
of large cattle feed location (Pitu Riase), Laying
chicken farming and chicken cutting (almost
all sub- districts), suitable rice field area for
post-harvest farm duck) 2) Weakness (Human
resources of rancher and source of capital), 3)
Opportunities (Business assistance through
people’s business credit (KUR) from banking
and High (Free trade opening and inability of
farmers to manage capital from banking)
d. fishery Sector
Sidenreng Rappang Regency is known as one
of the agricultural areas in South Sulawesi province
and is a National Rice Mill. This can be seen from
the role of the agricultural sector, especially food
crops that have a big enough share in economic
growth. Some of the main food crops produced
in Sidenreng Rappang Regency are: rice, corn,
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cassava, sweet potatoes, and nuts. 1) Strength (The
existence of suitable agricultural irrigation to serve
as a source of pond water and suitable weather
conditions for freshwater fish development), 2)
Weakness (Frequent community fish decompose
due to the absence of fish management industry,
lack of human resources to manage the crops ,
And fish crops are only for food and there is no
management system that makes long-lasting fish),
3) Opportunities (High public interest to consume
freshwater fish and Presence of government efforts
to provide guidance to the community related to
fish management), and 4) Threats (Lack of public
interest for freshwater fish farming and lack of
cooperation among government agencies
especially between agriculture and fisheries)
SIDRAP VS AEC
The implementation of the ASEAN Economic
Community will underline some key points that
will be a challenge for the Sidenreng Rappang
district government. AEC comes up with free
points of free flow of goods, free flow of sevice,
free flof of investment, free flow of skilled labor,
and free flow of capital.
a. Free points of free flow of goods
The opening of ASEAN free market makes
the outflow of goods into the country becomes
more rapidly. The provision of basic goods
needs become the nation’s main challenge.
Further development, liberalization of free
goods flow is one of the main elements in
realizing ASEAN as a joint market based on
production. The embodiment of the impact of
an open economic nature certainly involves the
political system. Sidenreng Rappang Regency
is one of the areas that has the potential to
provide some basic human needs sourced from
agriculture especially rice.
According to (Usman, Masyarakat Ekonomi
ASEAN (MEA) dan Daya Saing Investasi
Indonesia, 2016) For some things, Indonesia is
still considered not ready to face the competition
AEC. The size of Indonesia’s large economy could
be one of the causes. Indonesia is indeed the largest
country in ASEAN, both in terms of the size
of the population, and the size of its economy.
But unfortunately, in terms of quality, especially
competitiveness, Indonesia is still lagging behind
compared to Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand.
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This condition is also followed by the economic
condition of Sidenreng Rappang Regency,
especially in the provision of basic needs of the
community sourced from agriculture, plantation,
fishery, and livestock.
b. Free flow of sevice
Service-free flow is present in the
implementation of the ASEAN economic
community by opening up the widest possible
opportunity for the provision and delivery of
services. The readiness of local governments
in order to prepare services to the community
becomes the demand.
c. Free flof of investment
Implementation of the free flow of
investment in the ASEAN region aims to make
Southeast Asia region an attractive place for
investors and competing, both from ASEAN
countries and those from outside the region.
This is related to policies on business activities
to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) or
Foreign Investment (PMA).
The presence of this freedom becomes an
opportunity for the district government Sidenreng
Rappang to welcome the entry of investors invest
in some sectors. Some sectors that are in dire need
of investment in Sidenreng Rappang district, such
as livestock, fishery, plantation and others.
The free flow of investment becomes the
government’s need in developing the Sidenreng
Rappang district. The Sidrap government is
expected to be able to develop a development
strategy. A strategy is regarded as a development
strategy if the organization deliberately designs
a strategy that aims to improve the status,
capacity, resources that will ultimately give birth
to a different new organizational posture in the
future. Wechsler and Backoff (Suwarsono, 2013)
mentioned that the organization is fully laid out
and operated in a mode of development.
d. Free flow of skilled labor
The low human resources owned by the
district government of Sidenreng Rappang in the
four main sectors that are the focus of the study
is still in the low category. The lack of human
resources is reflected in the availability of extension
workers in each sector. Local governments have
only the availability of extension teams; Agriculture
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75 people, plantation 14 people, animal husbandry
46 people, and fishery 5 people. The availability
of these extension workers when compared with
the potential possessed by the region can be said
that not directly proportional. One example is
agricultural extension which amounts to 75 people
with rice field area 44.934 ha with a ratio of 1:
599,15 Ha.
Given these shortcomings, the strategic steps
required by the government in order to face the
ASEAN economic community. The existence
of free access related to skilled workers, the local
government should develop development strategies
to maintain and empower local communities.
The strategy is in line with the opinion (Bilson,
2001) that human resource development is the
Identification of development needs, Formulating
appropriate development programs for the
employees concerned, and Monitoring and
evaluation of the implementation of the
development program that has been developed.
e. Free flow of capital
The development of global trade in the
last twenty years is increasingly massive. This
is marked by an increase in global export and
import value. The increase in exports and imports
in recent years has been partly attributable to
the rising volume of world trade and declining
world commodity prices. In 1980, the value of
trade transactions amounted to USD 3,813.48
billion. In 2010 the value of trade transactions
has reached USD 30,367 billion.
This development will continue and increase
with the opening of the free market of the
ASEAN economic community. To anticipate the
phenomenon, local governments must develop
protective strategies to maintain local conditions.
CONCLUSION
Sidenreng Rappang District Government
has the power and opportunity especially in
agriculture sector to face the implementation of
Asean Economic Community (AEC). While the
weaknesses as well as a challenge lies the ability
of human resources that are owned, especially the
resources of extension workers both agricultural
extension and other sectors. The strategic step
that should be taken by the local government is the
transformation- development strategy. This strategy
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due to the implementation of Asean economic
society (AEC) to overcome all the shortcomings
and weaknesses, and develop the quality of each
sector owned.
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