ASEAN SUMMARY

Global governance is an interesting topic to begin with. It is a sum of many ways, individuals and institutions, public as well as private to manage their common affairs. It is about cooperation as well as understanding of each actor on certain issues and how they deal with the problems. This mini research will take effort to apply global governance by relating it with newspaper article in a given times. My most concern is about ASEAN and how it contributed to the world as whole. ASEAN centred to Southeast Asian region and is functioning as an effective contributor to the maintenance of peace and stability, and the achievement of the development and prosperity of the region. Thus, ASEAN also has established relations with other countries and held many dialogue partnerships as well as other forms of cooperation including the ASEAN Plus Three process, the ASEAN Regional Forum, and the East Asia Summit. This shows how ASEAN put priority to ensure that each member and also the world will get good benefits from its establishment not for self-motives. This year ASEAN celebrated its 40th anniversary with the theme, “One Asean at the Heart of Dynamic Asia” and was held at Manila, Philippines. The main event was to see the endorsement of the final draft of the Asean Charter, sort of Asean Constitution to guide the association’s 10 member countries is accomplished. This is because without a charter, member countries cannot intervene to the others internal dispute or conflicts based on Treaty of Amity and Cooperation that has signed before. They cannot gives aid to any party eventhough the conflicts lead to suppression and has violated human rights. For example, in the case of Myanmar. The citizens are suffering caused by the autocratic ruler lead by Junta that prohibited a place for worship, no medical facilities, no free education and no freedom of speech. This is surely inhuman behavior in such a modern world. The worst thing is that, the General generate money through drug syndicates. Through a legitimate charter, this problem can be solved and the Myanmar ruler can be brought under the international law. By right, they have to obey it and this will ensure that the bloc will get attraction by other part of the world as a convenient organization. Later, at the Asean Regional Forum (ARF), it was said that ARF has condemned the killings and abduction of South Korea citizens by the Taliban in Afghanistan and called for the immediate and unconditional release of the remaining hostages. It is a global cooperation that clarified global governance does exist nowadays. Clearly, ASEAN and major superpower in agreement that non-state actor (Terrorist) should be caught and brought to the International Court of Justice for judgment for the destructions that they’ve made. It involves loss of innocent people and this remarks the war against terrorism. ARF also is a platform for all 27 members to voice out their concern on various issues and successfully produced co-operation agreements in the field of nuclear non-proliferation, export control of weapons, civil military co-ordination in disaster relief, counter terrorism and also peacekeeping.
For me, I think ASEAN should make the Charter legitimize as soon as possible and not threaten by any forces. This is to ensure that each country enjoys the same privileges and they’re binding to the rules so that no country can harm another. There must also implement free trade agreement (AFTA) in mass so that economic among the members will grow. If possible, ASEAN should have the same functions as United Nation so that ASEAN will gain more respects and countries all over the world will listen to ASEAN opinions and decisions.
As a conclusion, through many establish organs in ASEAN, it is undeniable that ASEAN is a strongest regional organization in Southeast Asia and play important key role in social, economic and politic of each members. It is respected by many world organizations because of its flexibility to compromise between each member’s even though by nature there are dispute between neighboring country such as Malaysia and Singapore and Myanmar with other Asean members. Therefore, ASEAN is aim for the ASEAN Community by 2015 to further integration and have strong sense of belonging to ASEAN.