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OBJECTIVES:
 Foundation
 Purposes
 Expansion of members

 The Asean way

 Economic community blueprint

 Overview of the roadmap for financial integration

 Free trade

 Environmental moves

 Community sense on maritime behavior

SOUTHEAST ASIA MAP ASEAN

 regional intergovernmental organisation

 Promotes Pan-asianism

 Facilitates political, economic, and


security cooperation/integration

 composed of 10 Southeast Asian


countries

MEMBERS OF ASEAN FOUNDATION


 August 18, 1967

 Bangkok, Thailand

 ASEAN declaration

 Created- fear of communism and economic


development

 Founding fathers- Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,


Singapore and Thailand

 Brunei (1984), Vietnam (1995), Myanmar and Laos


(1997), Cambodia (1999)

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PRINCIPAL PURPOSES ASEAN PURPOSES


 Economic growth  To accelerate the economic growth, social
progress, and cultural development in the
region through joint endeavours in the spirit of
 Social progress equality and partnership in order to strengthen
the foundation for a prosperous and peaceful
community of Southeast Asian Nations
 Cultural development

 Peace and security

To promote regional peace and stability  To promote active collaboration and mutual
through abiding respect for justice and the rule of assistance on matters of common interest in
law in the relationship among countries of the the economic, social, cultural, technical, scientific
region and adherence to the principles of the and administrative fields
United Nations Charter

 To provide assistance to each other in the  To collaborate more effectively for the
form of training and research facilities in greater utilisation of their agriculture and
the educational, professional, technical and industries, the expansion of their trade,
administrative spheres including the study of the problems of
international commodity trade, the improvement
of their transportation and communications
facilities and the raising of the living
standards of their peoples

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 To promote Southeast Asian studies  To maintain close and beneficial


cooperation with existing international and
regional organisations with similar aims
and purposes, and explore all avenues for even
closer cooperation among themselves

ASEAN SUMMIT ASEAN SUMMIT


 Semiannual meeting  Semiannual meeting
 Prominent regional and international conference  Prominent regional and international conference
 Topics: social, political, security and socio-  Topics: social, political, security and socio-
cultural development cultural development

EXPANSION OF ITS MEMBERS


 January 7 1984- Brunei  The sovereignty norm was reinforced by a
 July 28, 1995- Vietnam decision-making approach based on consultation
and consensus, and a focus on the peaceful
 July 23, 1997- Laos and Myanmar
resolution of inter-state disputes.
 April 30, 1999- Cambodia
 The principles of consultation and consensus are
stated in Article 20 of ASEAN Charter, i.e. as a
basic principle decision making in ASEAN shall
be based on consultation and consensus.
Southeast Asian regionalism thus serve to
prevent foreign interference and enabled the
member-states to focus primarily on internal
affairs..

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 The adherence to ASEAN’s norms and principles


has led to what is referred as the “ASEAN Way”.

 PURPOSE: to ensure cooperation, coordination  The non-interference norm requires that ASEAN
and correlation among member nations while refrain both from criticizing member governments'
observing “respect to each sovereign member actions towards their own citizens and from making
the domestic political system of states and the
country”, while retaining “domestic issues” within political styles of governments a basis for deciding
a state, an affair “internal” to the particular state their membership in ASEAN
rather than an issue of discussion among member
nations.

 It also attributes this success to the "ASEAN


Way", of which the principle of non-interference is
an integral part.

 PRINCIPLE HAS NEVER BEEN ABSOLUTE.

 There were two cases where ASEAN intervened


between 1997-2007:
 As non-interference has become "part of the
ASEAN identity," ASEAN has adhered to it fairly  the coup in Cambodia (1997)
consistently however the non-interference
principle appears increasingly undermined  the political persecution of Aung San Suu Kyi in
through expanded membership, new challenges Myanmar
arising from globalization processes, growing
demands for democratization, and the increasing
international prominence of cosmopolitan norms
whereby the focus is centred on human security
rather than on state-sovereignty

 In July 1997, Second Prime Minister Hun Sen of the


Cambodian People's Party (CPP) ousted the First Prime  A military dictatorship took over the government
Minister Norodom Ranaridh of the Royalist Party of Myanmar in 1989.26 The junta refused to
(FUNCINPEC) in national elections.
convene the parliament and transfer power to the
 When the crisis hit, ASEAN initially denied that this National League for Democracy (NLD), led by
internal conflict would affect its decision about whether to Aung San Suu Kyi, despite the NLD's landslide
admit Cambodia as a member state. This was in line with its
non-interference principle; according to the principle, victory in the 1990 national election. Aung San
ASEAN should not use the domestic political system of a Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest from 1989
country as grounds to decide its admission into ASEAN.
to 1995, and then again from 2000 to 2002, and
 However, ASEAN's attitude changed after its major trading 2003 to 2007
partners the United States, the European Union and Japan
all pressured it to use its economic leverage to solve the
political crisis in Cambodia. ASEAN's foreign ministers
announced after their ministerial meeting in July 1997 that
they had decided to delay Cambodia's entry into ASEAN
indefinitely. In addition, ASEAN sent a delegation
consisting of the Indonesian, Thai, and Philippine Foreign
Ministers to Cambodia to mediate a settlement.

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 After this, the Western powers put more pressure  Consequently, ASEAN ministers, for the first
on ASEAN to resolve the issue. The EU boycotted time, jointly urged Myanmar to release Aung San
any meeting or cooperation project with ASEAN Suu Kyi and NLD members. In 2004, with no
that Myanmar participated in.31 Washington also progress toward democratization in Myanmar, the
stalled free-trade talks with ASEAN to signal its US and some EU members, led by the UK,
disapproval of Myanmar's political behavior. threatened not to attend the 2006 ASEAN
Summit chaired by Myanmar unless Myanmar
released Ms. Suu Kyi from house arrest. Powerful
ASEAN members such as Malaysia, Singapore
and Indonesia pressured Myanmar to relinquish
its position as chair.
 So, ASEAN sent an envoy headed by the
Malaysian Foreign Minister to Myanmar in 2006
to examine Myanmar's progress in improving its
human rights conditions.

 The AEC is the realisation of the region’s


 Analysing the instances when the ASEAN end goal of economic integration. It
intervened and when it did not, it provided
strong evidence that the non-interference envisions ASEAN as a single market and
principle has not determined whether ASEAN production base, a highly competitive region,
interferes in a domestic conflict or not. with equitable economic development, and
 The non-interference principle of ASEAN retains
fully integrated into the global economy.
certain “positive” aspects, to respect the state
sovereignty and refrain from interfering into
member nations domestic issues, however, when
the issue escalates to an “alarming level” and
threatens the safety and stability in the region, it
is the responsibility of the regional forums to
address the issue effectively.

 Once AEC is realised, ASEAN will be


characterized by free movement of
 The AEC Blueprint 2025 consists of five
goods, services, and investments as
interrelated and mutually reinforcing
characteristics, namely: well as freer flow of capital and skills.
 (i) A Highly Integrated and Cohesive
Economy;
 (ii) A Competitive, Innovative, and Dynamic
ASEAN;
 (iii) Enhanced Connectivity and Sectoral
Cooperation;
 (iv) A Resilient, Inclusive, People-Oriented,
and People-Centred ASEAN; and
 (v) A Global ASEAN.

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FREE TRADE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVES


 The Asean Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA)
Key Elements:
a. Full tariff reduction schedule of each Member States
b. Ensures the realization of free flow of goods within
ASEAN, including the ff: tariff liberalization, removal of
non tariff barriers, rules of origin, trade facilitation,
customs, standards and conformance, and sanitary and
phyto-sanitary measures.

COMMUNITY SENSE ON
MARITIME BEHAVIOR
 Cambodian thai border dispute
 South China Sea dispute

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