THE DIGITAL ISSUES IN INDONESIA AND ITS CHALLENGES IN FTA NEGOTIATIONS

FTA & DIGITAL TRADE The mobile data revolution that supported by the development of information and communication technology (ICT) have promoted the significant changes in the world’s economic model knows as The Digital Economy. In the International trade, the growing of the information technology has positive impact on the accretion of international services trade. World Trade Organization (WTO) statistics data shows that global service trade continued to expand since 2010 and posted its highest growth in 2014 at 5%. It is so far when it compared with the global trade in goods which average growth by 1% each years. The WTO claimed that the growth of this service sector is contributed by the information technology sector which recorded the growth of 18% in every each years1. Read More