ASEAN has come a long way since 1967. The ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC) has been actively promoting public-private sector partnership to achieving the integration for the creation of an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. ASEAN-BAC provides private sector feedback on the implementation of ASEAN economic cooperation, and to identify priority areas for the consideration of the ASEAN Leaders at the annual ASEAN Leaders Summits.

We are delighted to inform you that Indonesia has presided over the Chairmanship of the ASEAN-BAC and just completed hosting the annual ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (ASEAN-BIS) on 16 – 18 November 2011 in Bali, Indonesia.

As part of the support to enhance outreach and advocacy measures, the Business Summit this year set the stage and highlighted the current position of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) vis-à-vis the global community. The Business Summit looked into three crucial areas that shape the environments in which ASEAN businesses operate. These include: climate change and the global food crisis; ASEAN connectivity in the context of infrastructure development; and entrepreneurship and the role of innovation play in the region’s economic development.

To name a few, this year Business Summit also included prominent speakers such as: H.E. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono President of the Republic of Indonesia; The Hon. Julia Gillard MP of Australia; H.E. Lee Myung Bak, President of Korea; H.E. Gita Wirjawan, Indonesia Minister of Trade; H.E. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State to the United States of America; H.E. Mari Elka Pangestu, Minister of Tourism and Creative Economies; Sofjan Wanandi, Chairman of Indonesia Employer’s Association (APINDO), Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar, Managing Director of Khazanah Nasional Berhad; Dato’ Sri Nazar Razak, CEO of CIMB Group; Tan Sri Tony Fernandes, CEO of AirAsia Berhad; Jean-Phillipe Courtois, President of Microsoft International; and many more.

Conducted for the past eight years, the 2011 ASEAN-BIS in Bali continues to serve as a valuable platform for knowledge exchange and relations network among regional and global businessmen. One of the lime lights of the 2011 ASEAN-BIS was the awarding of the winners of the prestigious ASEAN Business Awards (ABA) 2011 to recognize the most “Most Admired ASEAN Enterprises”.

The formal and informal networking sessions have on average brought between 800 to 1,000 high-level representatives from the private and public sectors. This year especially, ASEAN-BAC worked hand-in-hand with Indonesia Employers’ Association (APINDO), Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) and Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade.

More information of the Business Summit is available on www.asean-bis.com.

Thank you so much, and I am so excited about being back here today, and I want to recognize all of the distinguished guests. I know Minister Gita Wirjawan was here, and I know he had to go to a meeting at the – has already left with some distinguished officials. But to all of you public and private sector representatives, organizations, executives from within ASEAN and beyond, it is a great honor for me to be representing the United States.

We had a whirlwind tour through the Asia Pacific region. As you might know, President Obama and I were together at the APEC leaders meeting in Honolulu. Then, of course, President Obama went to Australia, I went to the Philippines and Thailand, and now here we are in beautiful Bali. And I am excited that – (applause) – President Obama will be the first American President ever to attend the East Asia Summit, and that is a big tribute to you. (Applause.)

Now we, I think, each recognize that economic policy is foreign policy, and foreign policy is economic policy. And by strengthening the diplomacy and presence abroad, we can strengthen our economies back home, and actually, vice versa. And the United States recognizes that, so we are making a pivot, a pivot toward the Asia Pacific region, where we intend to be a diplomatic, economic, and strategic force for the 21st century.

And it is especially important that we work toward the integration of the Asia-Pacific region, because the potential here matters more than ever, first and foremost to the people who live here, but indeed to those living across the globe. This region has the world’s fastest rising economies, with GDP growth at an average of better than 6.5 percent a year despite the global slowdown. And with natural resources, untapped markets, a massive consumer base, and unlimited human potential, we expect that to continue to grow.

But we still have more work to do between the United States and ASEAN countries. Trade between the United States and Southeast Asia has tripled over the past 20 years, but it is still just 6 percent of our global trade. And even though American investments in ASEAN countries more than doubled last year, we know we can do better.

How do we grow together to maximize broad, inclusive, sustainable growth that provides real benefits for all of our people? Well, we have to start by insisting on economic competition that is open, free, transparent, and fair. That means taking on rules that prevent foreign investors from competing with local businesses to produce better goods and services. It means lowering trade barriers that stop the flow of ideas, information, products, and capital across borders. It means letting outside investors compete under the same rules as the inside players. And it makes it absolutely imperative that everyone knows what the rules are. When any of these principles are ignored, when people no longer believe they can trade, invest, create jobs, or improve their lives on an even playing field, then the absence of fairness undermines economic growth.

Now let me describe briefly four ways that we want to work with you: first, by lowering trade barriers; second, by strengthening the investment climate; third, by pursuing commercial diplomacy; and fourth, by supporting entrepreneurs. We’re excited about the innovative trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. That would bring economies from across the Pacific, developed and developing alike, into a single trading community, not only to create more growth, but better growth. Not just to lower tariffs, but raise standards on the environment, protections for workers, intellectual property, and innovation. We want to create a cutting-edge trading community that promotes the free flow of information technology and the spread of green technology that helps us harmonize our regulations and build more efficient supply chains together.

We are also working to ensure that the TPP is the first trade pact designed specifically to reduce barriers for small and medium-sized enterprises, and that all companies are treated fairly, regardless of their size, or whether their owners sit in boardrooms or government ministries.

But lowering barriers is not enough, and that’s why we share ASEAN’s vision for strengthening the roads, rails, ports, power stations, and other infrastructure required for the efficient flow of goods and services. When it – this was, I have to say, very surprising to me, just one of many examples that I was given, but this one I chose because we’re in Indonesia – when it is cheaper and easier for an Indonesian shipping company to send its cargo almost a thousand miles away to Singapore than to one of its own islands which has inadequate ports and facilities, that is a breakdown of connectivity. So we are very pleased that the Government of Indonesia has unveiled its plan to improve transportation links among its 17,000 islands, and to other points around the region. And we encourage other ASEAN nations. Through the U.S.-ASEAN connectivity cooperation initiative, we are supporting project designs to build infrastructure that can support economies and create jobs.

The second element is investment. Improvements in Indonesia’s investment climate have encouraged American companies like Caterpillar to build new plants here. We think that is a benefit for both sides. Indonesian entrepreneurs who participated in the regional entrepreneurship summit that I addressed last July recently went to Silicon Valley to talk with their counterparts about venture capital. And companies in ASEAN continue to look for new opportunities in the U.S. as they become more global in their operations.

Third is commercial diplomacy. We have to advocate for businesses, and make sure that they do compete on a level playing field. It is somewhat strange that when a young hawker of goods on the streets of Manila can sell a bootleg copy of a major Hollywood movie on the very day of its release, then we have to stand up for intellectual property.

And when governments impose unfair terms on our companies just to enter or expand into a new market, we need to push back. For example, a remanufacturing plant that American Caterpillar recently opened in Singapore would not have gone forward without a year of negotiations and support from our Embassy officers there.

And we were very pleased that the kind of advocacy to make sure that people are getting a fair shake recently led to some positive outcomes for American companies. For example, Boeing finalized the sale of aircraft worth more than $3 billion to Thai Airways. And just this week, we have these developments: Boeing and Lion Air, here in Indonesia, have agreed on a $21.7 billion deal for a supply of 240 new model 737 aircraft. GE Aviation is signing a $1.3 billion contract with Garuda Airlines for the supply and maintenance of new aircraft engines. And GE and Indonesian rail company PT Kereta Api has just announced an agreement to supply 100 trains to Java. Now that’s win-win for both sides. And we also are looking not just out for our big companies, but also our small and medium-sized ones as well.

Fourth, we must support entrepreneurship. That’s in America’s DNA. It’s part of what defines us. And we are very excited about entrepreneurship emphasis in the Obama Administration. And certainly as we look across the Asia Pacific, there are so many young people who are so tech-savvy, they have the potential to become one of the biggest drivers of prosperity in the world.

But too often we don’t see entrepreneurs and small businesses getting the same kind of help that they need. We have to be very careful about that in our own country. That’s why we created something called the Small Business Administration, because we know that large companies very often will get the door open and get through it before small companies even know there is a contract to be had. And we think governments need to be very self-conscious about not giving so many preferences to large companies.

So that’s one of the reasons we established the Global Entrepreneurship Program, another initiative called Partnerships for a New Beginning, because we want to advocate not only for our own small businesses, but for small businesses elsewhere, because after all, small businesses provide employment for far more people than all the big businesses in the world combined. So we, as governments, have to pay more attention to small businesses and entrepreneurs. So there is a lot of work ahead of us. The Global Partnership Initiative, which works to connect governments and the private sector, is another way that we’re trying to break through red tape and bureaucracy and just get connected, people to people.

You can tell from my remarks we are very excited about the future of this region, and also the future of the partnership between the United States and ASEAN. I was privileged, in my very first month of office, to go to Indonesia, to go to Jakarta, to go to ASEAN headquarters, and to sign the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation, because I knew how important it was for the United States to be all in, totally committed to ASEAN. This is a network, an organization of countries that we have good relations with on many levels, but we know there is so much more to be done.

So let’s use our resources, our networks, and renew our commitment to the kind of growth that will really benefit the vast majority of people. I’m sure you have followed in the news a lot of what’s going on in our country on the 99 percent versus the 1 percent. Well, I think that is a feeling much more broadly felt than just in the United States. I think people – especially young people – they are impatient, they are demanding, and they are totally connected up. They know what is happening. I couldn’t say that about my generation, or generations before, because we didn’t have the internet. We didn’t know, living in Jakarta, what was going on in New York, or, living in LA, what was going on in Bangkok or Manila or anywhere else.

So it is time for those of us in positions of responsibility, in both the public and the private sector, to realize that it’s not only smart economics to create broad-based prosperity that includes everyone, men and women, big companies, medium-sized and small, older and younger, everyone – break down the barriers, open the doors, and watch what happens. And I don’t think any region in the world will be more benefited than right here in the countries that comprise ASEAN.

Thank you very much. (Applause.)

PRN: 2011/T55-14

Source: http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2011/11/177349.htm

SPEECH BY
PRESIDENT SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO
AT THE ASEAN BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT SUMMIT

Bismillahirrahmaanirrahiim,
Assalaamu’alaikum warrahmatullaahi wabarakatuh

Peace be upon us,
Om swastiastu,

His Excellency President Lee Myung-bak of the Republic of Korea,
Excellencies Ministers of ASEAN Member Countries,
His Excellency Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary General of ASEAN,
Mr. Anangga Roosdiono, Chairman of the ASEAN Business Advisory Council,

Distinguished members of the ASEAN business community,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

Let me begin by expressing our gratitude to my good friend President Lee Myung-bak, for joining us here today. President Lee has been a steadfast partner of ASEAN, and we commend him for his goodwill and leadership.

I also congratulate Mr. Anangga Roosdiono and the ASEAN Business Advisory Council, for organizing this ASEAN Business and Investment Summit.

This is an exciting year, for business and investment in ASEAN. We all know the global economy is still on shaky grounds. The world economic recovery is still fragile. And we all hope the Eurozone economies will pull through the present crisis.

But here in ASEAN, the pulse is somewhat different. It is an upbeat pulse. There is a growing confidence in our region that translates into an average growth of 7,4 % for ASEAN economies in 2010. This is higher than the world average of 5 % last year. As a vote of confidence from our international friends, including from Korea, FDI in our region has also grown, by about 90 % last year. This is also true for us here in Indonesia. And I am glad that we now see a trend of increasing investments among ASEAN economies.

A key part of that confidence is the brimming “can do spirit” of the dynamic business community in ASEAN. ASEAN businesses are scoring one success after another, becoming pioneers and role models in their own economies, and many are starting to go global. They are the drivers of the modernization efforts now underway in our region.

What is most important is that, businesses today are operating under a different national mindset.

There may have been time in the past when businesses were seen with some hostility – including ideological hostility. But today, there is hardly any country, regardless of its political system, which can achieve progress without the foundation of an active business community. Governments that constraint business is bound to fall behind Governments who unleash its potential. Today, being pro-poor and pro-jobs are complementary to being pro-business. After all, Governments can only provide a certain amount of jobs, and ultimately it is up to small, medium and big businesses to provide the employment, that has now become a scarce global commodity.

It is therefore important for Governments to cultivate business friendly policies, and to harness the entrepreneurial capacity of society. Experts believe that a sign of a healthy economy is when at least 2 % of its population are entrepreneurs. All of us should work hard to achieve this minimum benchmark. The rise of entrepreneurs is also a good sign, because it means its society is driven by creativity, positive energy and optimism.

It is important for ASEAN economies to nurture the culture of success. This means a society which glorifies and rewards success and excellence.

One challenge for our business community is, how to claim our space in the world of innovation.

If the emerging economies have proved anything – from Brazil to Turkey, from India to Indonesia, from China to South Africa – it is that developing countries too can become sources of innovation – in information technology, biotechno-logy, aviation, computers, health, automobile, and others. We have also proved that in certain sectors, emerging economies can more than catch up, it can leap frog others in front of them.

ASEAN is a region fast being transformed. We are becoming an ASEAN Community.

One defining feature of that ASEAN Community – we hope – is the spread of opportunity. Our citizens have acquired constitu- tionally guaranteed equality – but providing equal opportunity for all remains a challenge.

The business community – from ASEAN and beyond – is indispensable in this effort. You have the power to change, to build, to empower, and to prosper. We believe that the best investments are those that are for the long haul, beneficial to the people, environmentally sustainable, and contribute to progress.

In this ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, let me propose several number of areas, that you can do well to contribute in a win-win fashion.

FIRST, you can be the driving force behind the development of infrastructure and connectivity.

The development of infrastructure is the next big thing for our region. The demand is great, the capacity is abundant, and the political will is strong.

The development of connectivity in Southeast Asia has become a main priority, following the adoption of the Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity. Our vision is to connect the economic centers in the region;to connect the archipelagic countries and the ASEAN mainland; and to connect ASEAN with the remaining East Asia and the world as a whole.

We in Indonesia have also adopted a Master Plan for the next 15 years. This involves an ambitious plan to develop SIX growth corridors throughout Indonesia – in agriculture, industry and service. This Master Plan will require massive capital in the range of 4,000 trillion Rupiah or over $ 400 billion dollars. About $ 100 billion dollars will come from the state budget. The same amount will come from SOE. Another $ 100 billion dollars from private sector, and from foreign direct investment we expect some 100 to 150 billion. The sectors to be developed are wide-ranging: infrastructure, transportation, energy, agriculture, manufacture, fisheries, defense industry and others. Indeed, we have much to offer those who seek business opportunity: our economy is growing at a solid 6,5 %, our GDP is now over $ 700 billion dollar, and we have a large population of 240 million with growing purchasing power.

This is all good for trade and investment, as demands will rise, and thus create exciting opportunities for you.

SECOND, you can be our partner in achieving equitable development.

I say this because everywhere we are seeing a world of plenty as well as inequity. This may lead to growing social and economic gaps, which none of us cannot afford.

One of the outcome documents that the ASEAN Leaders have adopted at this Summit is The ASEAN Framework for Equitable Economic Development.This document contains practical programs which will help bridge the development gaps, and encourage wider participation, including business sector, in the ASEAN integration process.

Critical to equitable development is the expansion of economic opportunities for low-income households in many ASEAN countries. We welcome the role of the private financial institutions and bankings, to complement the Government’s efforts.

THIRD, you can be part of the solution in the pursuit of green growth.

For most ASEAN member countries, natural resources have been critical assets in development. But the days when we use our natural resources without regard for future generations are over. One way or another, all of us must embrace sustainable develop- ment and low carbon development path. And I believe we can achieve progress and prosperity, while enforcing environ- mentally sustainable practice. Here, technology will be key. And again, in this area, private sector can work with Governments, to promote sustainable growth.

Let me therefore end my remarks by, commending you on your dynamism and foresight, and by wishing you a productive meeting.

Business people are doers. So I look forward to hearing your recommendations.

By working in synergy, together we can achieve a strong, stable and prosperous ASEAN, as envisioned by the ASEAN Charter.

Thank you.

Wassalamu’alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh,
Om Santhi, Santhi, Santhi Om

Source: http://www.presidenri.go.id/index.php/eng/pidato/2011/11/17/1751.html

2011 ASEAN BUSINESS AND INVESTMENT SUMMIT:Memperdalam Kemitraan Internal dan Eksternal ASEAN, Menjawab Tantangan Global

Jakarta, 9 November 2011 – Bertempat di Auditorium Kementerian Perdagangan RI, hari ini, Rabu (9/11) berlangsung konferensi pers mengenai rencana penyelenggaraan 2011 ASEAN Business and Investment Summit pada 16-18 November 2011 di Nusa Dua, Bali. Hadir memberikan penjelasan adalah Menteri Perdagangan RI Gita Wirjawan didampingi oleh Chairman of ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ABAC) Anangga Roosdiono, serta Ketua Asosiasi Pengusaha Indonesia (APINDO) Sofjan Wanandi.

ASEAN Business and Investment Summit merupakan agenda tahunan ABAC yang diadakan di sela-sela Konferensi Tingkat Tinggi (KTT) ASEAN. Tahun ini, yang merupakan tahun kepemimpinan Indonesia di ASEAN, acara ASEAN Business and Investment Summit akan diikuti oleh sejumlah Kepala Negara atau Pemerintahan serta para Menteri ASEAN dan Mitra Dialog ASEAN. “Penyelenggaraan Business and Investment Summit ini bersamaan dengan berkembangnya kekhawatiran bahwa perekonomian dunia akan kembali melemah sebagai dampak dari krisis keuangan di Uni Eropa. Tidak mengherankan, banyak peserta dari kalangan bisnis terkemuka dan para Menteri bahkan Kepala Negara atau Pemerintahan merasa berkepentingan untuk hadir,” jelas Menteri Perdagangan.

ASEAN Business and Investment Summit kali ini merupakan penyelenggaraan yang ke-8 dan akan mengusung tiga tema utama untuk dibahas pada 17 dan 18 November 2011. Ketiga tema tersebut adalah: (a) Re-envisioning the 21st Century Global Economic Architecture; (b) ASEAN: the Harbour of Investment; dan (c) Strengthening Partnerships amidst Uncertainty. Tema pertama khususnya terkait dengan situasi perekonomian global saat ini dan dampaknya pada proses integrasi ekonomi ASEAN menuju ASEAN Economic Community 2015. Menteri Perdagangan menggarisbawahi “Tentunya semua negara merasa prihatin atas perkembangan perekonomian Uni Eropa serta lemahnya pertumbuhan ekonomi Amerika Serikat. Namun justru di saat seperti inilah ASEAN harus dapat memanfaatkan momentum dengan meningkatkan gravitasi ASEAN sebagai pusat kegiatan ekonomi yang sedang tumbuh kuat di kawasan ini, yang diharapkan dapat ikut memperkecil dampak krisis secara global. Ini dapat menjadi sumbangan tersendiri dari ASEAN kepada masyarakat dunia,” imbuh Gita Wirjawan.

Hal yang menarik dalam perkembangan beberapa bulan dan tahun terakhir ini adalah bahwa ASEAN telah menjadi salah satu tujuan investasi yang paling diminati. Dalam kesempatan ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, para peserta akan membahas lebih dalam potensi investasi yang ada di ASEAN dan mengidentifikasi langkah-langkah yang perlu ditempuh untuk lebih mendorong investasi dari dalam ASEAN sendiri dan menarik investasi dari luar ASEAN. Selama beberapa tahun ini, ASEAN sendiri merupakan satu dari tiga sumber utama FDI di ASEAN. Ini menunjukkan potensi ASEAN untuk meningkatkan integrasi ekonominya menuju ASEAN Economic Community pada tahun 2015.

Hal yang tidak kalah pentingnya adalah upaya meningkatkan kemitraan ASEAN dengan negara mitra utama. Diangkatnya isu ini sebagai salah satu tema sebetulnya juga sangat erat kaitannya dengan situasi perekonomian dunia saat ini. Sebagaimana dipercaya oleh banyak pengamat ekonomi, Asia Timur kini berkembang menjadi pusat pertumbuhan baru melengkapi Amerika Serikat dan Uni Eropa yang peranannya sedang melemah. ASEAN tepat berada di lingkar dalam perekonomian Asia Timur, bahkan berhasil menciptakan jejaring kerja sama perdagangan bebas dengan negara-negara penting di kawasan ini, yakni RRT, Korea, Jepang, Australia-New Zealand, dan India. “Saya kira baru ASEAN yang dapat menciptakan network of FTAs di kawasan ini, dan ASEAN harus dapat memainkan peran dalam mengarahkan network ini ke depan,” tambah Mendag.

Dalam ASEAN Business and Investment Summit kali ini, pembahasan kemitraan ASEAN dengan negara mitranya akan difokuskan pada ASEAN-Korea, ASEAN-Jepang, ASEAN-India, ASEAN-Amerika Serikat, dan ASEAN-Australia. Hal ini tidak berarti bahwa negara mitra ASEAN lainnya yakni RRT dianggap tidak penting. Dalam rangkaian KTT di Bali nanti, akan diselenggarakan pula ASEAN-China Commemorative Summit yang menandai kemitraan ASEAN dengan RRT selama 20 tahun. Untuk itu, Perdana Menteri RRT Wen Jiabao dijadwalkan ikut memberikan sambutan kunci pada ASEAN Business and Investment Summit ini.

Diorganisir bersama oleh ABAC, APINDO, BKPM dan Kementerian Perdagangan, serta didukung penuh oleh Kantor Menko Perekonomian dan KADIN Indonesia, ASEAN Business and Investment Summit kali ini akan memberi warna tersendiri dalam hubungan kemitraan antara pemerintah dan kalangan bisnis dengan kehadiran tokoh-tokoh penting dunia usaha dan pemerintahan. “Kita harapkan hasil-hasil dari ASEAN Business and Investment Summit ini dapat dilaporkan kepada para Pemimpin ASEAN pada sore hari tanggal 18 November sebagai masukan bagi pemerintah ASEAN untuk melakukan berbagai perbaikan,” imbuh Mendag menutup keterangannya.

Informasi lebih detil tentang ASEAN-BIS 2011 dapat dilihat di www.asean-bis.com.

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Informasi lebih lanjut hubungi:

ASEAN has come a long way since 1967. The ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC) has been actively promoting public-private sector partnership to achieving the integration for the creation of an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. ASEAN-BAC provides private sector feedback on the implementation of ASEAN economic cooperation, and to identify priority areas for the consideration of the ASEAN Leaders at the annual ASEAN Leaders Summits.

We are delighted to inform you that Indonesia has presided over the Chairmanship of the ASEAN-BAC and will become host of the annual ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (ASEAN-BIS) on 16 – 18 November 2011 in Bali, Indonesia.

As part of the support to enhance outreach and advocacy measures, the Business Summit this year will set the stage in highlighting the current position of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) vis-à-vis the global community. The Business Summit will look into three crucial areas that will shape the environments in which ASEAN businesses operate. These include: climate change and the global food crisis; ASEAN connectivity in the context of infrastructure development; and entrepreneurship and the role of innovation play in the region’s economic development.

To name a few, this year Business Summit will include prominent speakers such as: H.E. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono; H.E. Gita Wirjawan, Indonesia Minister of Trade; H.E. Mari Elka Pangestu, Minister of Tourism and Creative Economies; Sofjan Wanandi, Chairman of Indonesia Employer’s Association (APINDO), Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar, Managing Director of Khazanah Nasional Berhad; Dato’ Sri Nazar Razak, CEO of CIMB Group; and Jean-Phillipe Courtois, President of Microsoft International.

Conducted for the past eight years, the 2011 ASEAN-BIS in Bali will continue to serve as a valuable platform for knowledge exchange and relations network among regional and global businessmen. The event will have its regular feature of Keynote Addresses delivered by the ASEAN Heads of State and Government and private sector speakers from the region and beyond. One of the lime lights of the 2011 ASEAN-BIS will be the winners of the prestigious ASEAN Business Awards (ABA) 2011 to recognize the most “Most Admired ASEAN Enterprises”. The formal and informal networking sessions have on average brought between 800 to 1,000 high-level representatives from the private and public sectors.

Registration to the 2011 ASEAN-BIS is available via online on www.asean-bis.com.

For more information, please contact Ms Sally Silvani (Vani) on + 62.815.811.5555 or via email on info@asean-bis.com