JAKARTA. The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), which will take effect in 2015, provides wider opportunities for local products and services as long as they manage to compete with foreign products, an expert has said.

State-owned surveyor PT Surveyor Indonesia (Persero) president director M. Arif Zainuddin said the AEC must be faced with optimism in which all parties were certain that Indonesian products could compete with other Southeast Asian countries and companies should be challenged to enter competition on the global level.

“Facing the AEC 2015, Surveyor Indonesia has mapped out the potential of domestic businesses so that they can run more competitively,” he said as quoted by Antara news agency in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Arif said strategies developed by Surveyor Indonesia were in line with companies’ competency strengthening and improvements through business transformation, human-resource strengthening, business development and work-performance improvement.

To improve its work performance, he said, Surveyor Indonesia had conducted routine human-resource training and equipment-technology improvement, as well as creating a more simple and measured business process. At the same time, the company continued to develop strategic alliances with various surveyor companies both in Indonesia and abroad.

“For verification services, Surveyor Indonesia is optimistic in welcoming the implementation of the 2015 AEC concerning the continual increase in agro and non-agro products in the country,” said Arif.

He said Surveyor Indonesia would not push aside opportunities created by the implementation of the 2015 AEC due to its position as one of the most well-known and tested surveyor companies in Indonesia.

In improving its performance, however, Surveyor Indonesia would not only concentrate on the ASEAN market only but also the global market, Arif added. (ebf)

Editor: Hendra Gunawan