Literature Review: Human Resource Management Strategies in the Face of ACFTA's Global Competitive Currents

Abstract

The ACFTA Agreement is an agreement between ASEAN countries with the Chinese state to conduct free trade. The legal basis of CFTA is the  Framework Agreement on  Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Between the Association  of  Southeast Asian Nations and  China signed by the  President  of  the Republic of Indonesia (Megawati) on December 4, 2002 in  Phnom Penh, Cambodia and ratified through Presidential Decree  of the Republic of  Indonesia Number 48 of 2004 concerning the Ratification of the Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation between the Association of  Southeast Asian Nations  and the People's Republic  of China.  ACFTA will cause fundamental changes in the business environment and cause shifts in the order of importance of human resource management and HR functions. The human resources department must take strategic steps to create superior and competitive human resources so that they can compete in the era of ACFTA globalization. This literature study aims to determine the extent to which human resource development strategies   are influential in the era of ACFTA globalization. This study used a literature review research method that looked at several national and international journals to be analyzed descriptively. Based on the results of the study, it is known that the Indonesian government has several human resource development strategies in facing the Free Trade Area (ACFTA)