ACFTA Pact: Hardly Win-Win for ASEAN
Economic foothold by Chinese interests puts Indonesia at a disadvantage
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By: Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat and Yeta Purnama
The 2010 inauguration of the ASEAN-China trade pact, which removed all tariffs and allowed for greatly expanded foreign domestic investment across Southeast Asia, has raised growing concern in Indonesia over what is perceived as China’s ownership of wide swathes of the economy along with a continuing trade d…