IN FOCUS: Why Southeast Asia’s service providers remain stuck at home, and how ASEAN can help

Business

With Trump 2.0 reshaping global trade, boosting trade in services could offer ASEAN a growth path – but only if governments harmonise rules and tackle protectionism, experts and companies say. JAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR: In a cramped office on the second floor of a weathered building in Bandung, Indonesia, a dozen animators sit shoulder-to-shoulder, eyes glued to the screen, as they bring characters to life frame by painstaking frame. The walls of the six-by-six metre office are adorned with