TULUS T.H. TAMBUNAN is professor of Economics, Trisakti University, Indonesia, the director of the Center for Industry, Small and Medium Enterprises, and Business Competition Studies in the same university. His publications include The Readiness of MSMEs in Facing ASEAN Economic Community 2015 (Nova Science Publisher), SME in Asian Developing Countries (Palgrave Macmillan Publisher, 2009), and Development of MSMEs in Developing Countries Stories from Asia, Africa and Latin America (AkiNik Publications, 2019).