Abstract
Indonesia will be welcoming the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015 as a multilateral agreement to create integrated regions such as: (a) a single market and production base, (b) a highly competitive economic region, (c) a region of equitable economic development, and (d) a region fully integrated into the global economy. These characteristics are interrelated and mutually reinforcing in a sense that overall development would not be complete without total completion of the previous sector. This article discusses the participation of Indonesia as part of ASEAN as a single market and production base, through free flow of services which targets higher education in law. The author researched that Indonesian higher education system still faces issues, especially in legal education. Compared to other states that manages higher education in a relatively guided term, Indonesian legal education is still regulated generally by the government, operated by state and private educational entity, and further trained by profession organization. Indonesian legal education standard has not been supported by proper accreditation bureaucracy from BAN-PT or fair treatment from the government between state and private university. As a result, the quality of Indonesian law graduate still varies. Indonesian legal education is special in nature since it is considered profession and regulated by code of ethic. According to the author, legal education should be integrated with profession organization so that upon graduation, law graduates can directly conduct internship according to their desired profession and compete against ASEAN law graduates.
Highlights
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has agreed to form a multilateral agreement in face of global trend of free trade
The section of this paper provides the legal framework of the Indonesian legal education services and its compatibility with ASEAN Economic Community (AEC)
Actions such as exchange of information, sharing of experiences, undertaking transparency exercises in legal systems, legal traditions and legal practices would all be very valuable to have amongst members to enable us to have a clearer understanding of what needs to be done for liberalization and in turn we would be prepared for any eventuality once liberalization does happen in Indonesia by 2015
Summary
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has agreed to form a multilateral agreement in face of global trend of free trade. As several private HEIs have a very good reputation, admission to these institutions is, as competitive as it is for public HEIs. Indonesian legal education is conducted by law schools (under university management) under the direction of Directorate General of Higher Education of Republic of Indonesia. While law school was originally established to meet demands for legal employees in district court[12], further development allowed opening of other branches of professions such as advocates, notary and legal academicians State universities such as the University of Indonesia, Gadjah Mada University and University of Padjajaran were among the first to sprung up and followed after by private universities such as Tarumanagara University and Padjajaran University to cater increasing public demands.[13]. It should be noted that in the past the task to find solutions to the problems and to do the necessary reform in legal education will be the responsibility of the deans and further comparative studies with overseas law faculties to obtain better knowledge of international development in law
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