ELECTRONIC COMMERCE IN THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND THE IMPACT ON INDONESIA

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Abstrak
This paper abserves the development in the discussion of e-commerce as a
cross cutting issue in WTO and how the issue affected Indonesia primarily in
the information and communication technology (ICT) area. The exploration
will focus on e-commerce discussion and the progress starting from the First
Ministerial Conference to the Fifth. The observation will also broaden to all
related issue of the topic in this research, such as intellectual property rights
and ICT Under the author analysis, there is one thing that Indonesian
government can take advantage, the joining in Information Technology
Agreement (ITA). Because ITA was, establish in the purpose of encouraging
nations to develop their ICT so there will be development in the ICT in order
to create of fair competition. The encouragements were given in the form of
reducing custom and duties on technology used for ICT More author
opinion that Indonesia must see ITA as the facility in building up the ICT in
the country, despite the debate on the categorization of e-commerce, whether
as good or service. Indonesia must take an immediate step redeem necessary
to compete in the globalization of commerce, and maximizing the ICT
development through available facility is one possible step right now.