The world has developed into one big area where the borders between countries are no longer seen as obstacles to create such relationship among nations in the world. The result of this global involvement is amazingly great that no a single culture is immune toward the influence of other cultures. Alienation over this phenomenon will put a nation aside from the global inter-relation among nations in the world. We can learn some experiences from big countries to avoid stumbling into the same pitfalls as they. This paper is by no means a comprehensive account of globalization or more accurately, globalization, in Indonesia or ASEAN. In fact, it is intended to be more suggestive than comprehensive though it is characterized by more summary than controversy.

        Kata kunci: Third World, threats, opportunities, competition, alienation, so cial conflias