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Summary of Talking ASEAN in “ASEAN Day: Towards a Domestically Relevant, Regionally Engaging and Globally Active ASEAN”


The Habibie Center conducted a dialogue with the theme “ASEAN Day: Towards a Domestically Relevant, Regionally Engaging, and Globally Active ASEAN on August 9th, 2018 at The Habibie Center, Jakarta. The Speakers of this forum are H.E. Amb. Ade Padmo Sarwono (Permanent Representative of Indonesia to ASEAN), Mahmudi Yusbi (Program Manager, ASEAN Foundation) and Avyanthi Azis (Lecturer at International Relations Department, University of Indonesia) with A. Ibrahim Almuttaqi (Head of ASEAN study at The Habibie Center) as moderator.

The implementation of this forum aims to: a) explore ways for ASEAN to always relevant for its people b) identify challenges and opportunities for ASEAN to become regional stabilizers and c) explore ways to make ASEAN one of the center for world peace, security, and prosperity.
Besides giving a sneak peak on how ASEAN foundation works on how it provides an opportunity for young leader to develop themselves, this forum emphasized the condition of the foreign worker in Indonesia. The effort of government to protect its migrant worker outside the country is not simultaneously in line with the policy to provide foreign worker in the country the same privilege. It seems backlash with the principle of ASEAN Economic Community where it highlights the protection of movement of high skill labor.

ASEAN agreed to the Cebu Declaration, an agreement on the Protection and Promotion of Migrant Workers in 2007. In 2009, ASEAN Mutual Recognition Arrangements (MRAs) were introduced to facilitate free movement of eight occupations for the setting up of mutual standards accepted by all ASEAN member states. However, based on study by the International Labor Organization and the Asian Development Bank in 2014 found that the MRAs actually helped just 1 percent of ASEAN workers.
Moreover, Indonesia government and other ASEAN Member states are working on certification and accreditation. Unfortunately, it will not be finished in anytime soon.

The discussion is closed by the question whether ASEAN is still relevant considering the rising trend of protectionism among the member countries. ASEAN does have a principle of noninterference, where it affects a slower progress in the decision-making process. However, ASEAN currently and hopefully is still relevant due to the fact it is still able to embrace member’s interest, mediate a conflict and contribute the robust growth in the region. 

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