“…ASEAN can become a new economic bloc in the world, if global regulatory governance can be applied among the 10 ASEAN countries (Setiawan, 2018). The vision of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is a single market with free flows of goods, capital and skilled labour, which will help the region compete with the likes of China for foreign investment (Kurniati, 2004). This can happen if ASEAN combines the economic power of a resource-rich and growing market of more than 600 million people, including rich Singapore, one of the most developed countries in the world, oil-rich Brunei, developing countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam, as well as poor countries such as Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar (Mangku, 2021).…”