e-ASEAN and Regional Integration in South East Asia

2011 ◽  
pp. 2131-2138
Author(s):  
Xiudian Dai
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Task Force ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Framework Agreement ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
New Feature ◽  
Set Up

As a relatively new feature of the digital revolution in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), e-ASEAN was initiated by the ASEAN economic ministers in September 1999 and endorsed by ASEAN leaders at their summit in Manila in November the same year, when the e-ASEAN Task Force was also set up (ASEAN Secretariat, 2003). At the Fourth ASEAN Informal Summit in Singapore in November 2000, a Framework Agreement was signed to serve as the legal foundation for the e-ASEAN initiative. To ensure success, the Senior Economic Officials Meeting (SEOM) was tasked to supervise, coordinate, and review the implementation of the e-ASEAN Framework Agreement. As stipulated in the e-ASEAN Framework Agreement, the SEOM reports to the ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) and assists the AEM in all matters concerning this Agreement (ASEAN, 2000, Article 13). While there is no lack of literature discussing trade liberalisation and transborder cooperation in the ASEAN region, the impact of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) on the development of regionalism, and vice versa, remains a rather neglected area of study (Dai, 2003). The purpose of this article is to investigate the implications of the e-ASEAN initiative for regional cooperation and integration in South East Asia in the information age. In particular, the key challenges to achieving the objectives of the e-ASEAN initiative will be analysed.

e-ASEAN and Regional Integration in South East Asia

2011 ◽  
pp. 416-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. Dai
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Task Force ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Framework Agreement ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
New Feature ◽  
Set Up

As a relatively new feature of the digital revolution in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), e-ASEAN was initiated by the ASEAN economic ministers in September 1999 and endorsed by ASEAN leaders at their summit in Manila in November the same year, when the e-ASEAN Task Force was also set up (ASEAN Secretariat, 2003). At the Fourth ASEAN Informal Summit in Singapore in November 2000, a Framework Agreement was signed to serve as the legal foundation for the e-ASEAN initiative. To ensure success, the Senior Economic Officials Meeting (SEOM) was tasked to supervise, coordinate, and review the implementation of the e-ASEAN Framework Agreement. As stipulated in the e-ASEAN Framework Agreement, the SEOM reports to the ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) and assists the AEM in all matters concerning this Agreement (ASEAN, 2000, Article 13). While there is no lack of literature discussing trade liberalisation and transborder cooperation in the ASEAN region, the impact of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) on the development of regionalism, and vice versa, remains a rather neglected area of study (Dai, 2003). The purpose of this article is to investigate the implications of the e-ASEAN initiative for regional cooperation and integration in South East Asia in the information age. In particular, the key challenges to achieving the objectives of the e-ASEAN initiative will be analysed.

Washington will engage more with South-east Asia

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
East Asia ◽  
The United States ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Set Up

Significance She addressed two key issues during her trip: tensions in post-coup Myanmar and China’s growing regional footprint. Shortly after she left the region, the United States announced that it would donate unused COVID-19 vaccines abroad, including to South-east Asia. Impacts Washington will tighten its sanctions on the Myanmar military while supporting ASEAN’s five-point plan to ease the country’s crisis. The National Unity Government, a parallel administration to Myanmar’s junta set up by its opponents, will try to attract greater US backing. Manila and Washington may extend negotiations over renewing their Visiting Forces Agreement to prevent the pact expiring in August.

Political Leadership, Informality, and Regional Integration in East Asia: The Evolution of Asean Plus Three

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshimatsu Hidetaka
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Free Trade Agreements ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Regional Public Goods ◽  
Catalytic Role ◽  
Asean Countries ◽  
Shared Norms

AbstractSince the late 1990s, moves towards regional integration and cooperation have gained momentum in East Asia. The regional countries have expanded and deepened integration initiatives under the ASEAN Plus Three (APT) framework that consists of ASEAN countries, China, Japan and South Korea. What factors have promoted the development of regional integration and economic cooperation in the region? This article addresses this question in terms of collectively shared norms and political leadership. Informality, a representative common norm, played a catalytic role in first nurturing communication for regional cooperation and inducing a reluctant state to join the cooperative framework. Importantly, the development of regional cooperation under the APT framework was accompanied by a shift in emphasis from informal to formal settings. Moreover, leadership shown by China and Japan has played a crucial role in promoting the regional integration initiatives. While China has taken the initiative in propelling regional free trade agreements and economic development and integration in the Indochina countries, Japan has taken the lead in developing financial and monetary architectures and other cooperative mechanisms. Rivalry for political leadership has induced the two countries to provide regional public goods in a positive-sum game manner.

India will more strongly assert leadership in region

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Bay Of Bengal ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Content Type ◽  
North Eastern

Subject India's foreign policy in South and South-east Asia. Significance Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month visited the Maldives and Sri Lanka, shortly after his election victory and reinauguration. Leaders of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) had been invited to his swearing-in ceremony. When Modi came to power in 2014, invitations to his inauguration were sent to leaders of all countries in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). Impacts India will try to improve infrastructure in its north-eastern states to facilitate integration with mainland South-east Asia. Delhi will seek support from Tokyo and Washington to execute development projects in the region. Pakistan in its diplomacy will turn more pronouncedly towards China and Saudi Arabia.

Setting-up a cost recovery system for the largest wastewater treatment plant in south-east Asia

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 123-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Lønholdt ◽  
P. Elberg Jørgensen ◽  
D. O'Hearn
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plant ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Industrial Area ◽  
Cost Recovery ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Tariff System

A tariff system has been set up for the largest wastewater treatment plant in South-East Asia, the Samut Prakarn Wastewater Treatment Plant south of Bangkok, which is currently under completion. Fully functional the plant will have a design capacity for 500,000m3 per day and will service a combined residential and industrial area with approximately 600,000 residents and 2,300 factories. The tariff system, which includes a tariff model, is based on water consumption and BOD load. As background for setting the tariffs a comprehensive monitoring system including an industrial permitting system has been developed. The paper presents the background and rationale for setting up the system as well as the objective, scope and content of the tariff system and the industrial permit system. Further, the feasibility of introducing cost recovery systems, which is widely accepted in developing economies on the conceptual level and to some extent implemented at the legal and regulatory level, but has yet to be implemented at large, is discussed.

scholarly journals BABAK BARU REJIM KEAMANAN SIBER DI ASIA TENGGARA MENYONGSONG ASEAN CONNECTIVITY 2025

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 220
Author(s):  
Indah Novitasari
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
Security Regime ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Stability

This article discusses the relevance phenomenon of the world community's dependence on the use of cyber space, and the form of cyber security cooperation in Southeast Asia after ASEAN Community 2015. The use of cyber as an implication of information and communication technology progresses not only gives positive impact by shortening the distance, space and time, but in fact negatively impacted by the emergence a new generation of non-traditional threats which called cybercrime. This non-traditional threat appears latent, but has a massive impact on countries in Southeast Asia that have relatively high cyber consumptive levels with low cyber security. This spectrum of non-traditional threats needs to be addressed by efforts to implement a regional cooperation in order to strengthen the civic resilience actively within the global and regional framework. After ASEAN Community 2015, the integration of the region in various fields has also opened the vulnerability of various countries in the region against cybercrime. In facing this threat, ASEAN needs to create a more comprehensive cyber security cooperation framework through cyber security regime in Southeast Asia as an implementation of ASEAN values ​​and norms in realizing the stability of the region. The cyber security regime in Southeast Asia is considered to be a rational choice especially in achieving ASEAN Connectivity in 2025 as an agenda in realizing integration in Southeast Asia   Keywords: Cyber, Cyber Security Cooperation in South East Asia, Cyber Security Regime in South East Asia, ASEAN Connectivity 2025.     Abstrak   Artikel ini merupakan kajian yang membahas keterkaitan fenomena ketergantungan masyarakat dunia terhadap penggunaan ruang Siber, dan bentuk kerjasama Keamanan Siber di kawasan Asia Tenggara pasca berjalannya ASEAN Community tahun 2015. Penggunaan siber sebagai implikasi kemajuan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi, tidak hanya memberikan dampak positif dengan mempersingkat jarak, ruang dan waktu, namun nyatanya memberikan dampak negative dengan munculnya ancaman non-tradisional generasi baru yaitu kejahatan siber. Ancaman non-tradisional ini muncul secara laten, namun berdampak massif bagi negara-negara di Kawasan Asia Tenggara yang memiliki tingkat konsumtif siber relatif tinggi dengan keamanan siber yang rendah. Spektrum ancaman non-tradisional ini kemudian perlu disikapi dengan upaya melaksanakan sebuah kerjasama regional guna memperkuat ketahanan siber yang dilakukan secara aktif dalam kerangka global dan regional. Pasca Komunitas ASEAN 2015, integrasi kawasan dalam berbagai bidang nyatanya juga telah membuka kerentanan berbagai Negara di kawasan terhadap serangan kejahatan siber. Dalam menghadapi ancaman ini, maka ASEAN perlu membuat sebuah kerangka kerjasama keamanan siber yang lebih komprehensif melalui rejim keamanan siber di Asia Tenggara sebagai sebuah implementasi nilai dan norma ASEAN dalam mewujudkan stabilitas kawasan. Rejim Keamanan Siber di Asia Tenggara dinilai menjadi sebuah pilihan rasional terlebih dalam mencapai konektivitas ASEAN tahun 2025 sebagai sebuah agenda dalam mewujudkan integrasi di kawasan Asia Tenggara.   Kata Kunci: Siber, Kerjasama Keamanan Siber di Asia Tenggara, Rejim Keamanan Siber di Asia Tenggara, ASEAN Connectivity 2025  

Psychiatry in South-East Asia

1973 ◽  
Vol 123 (574) ◽  
pp. 257-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Neki
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Set Up ◽  
East Asia Region ◽  
Traditional Economy

For the purposes of this paper the South-East Asia region has been taken to include India, Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. The region thus demarcated is not merely an area of geographic contiguity but also comprised almost entirely of developing countries involved in a process of social change as a result, principally, of exposure to the West. The traditional economy of agricultural self-sufficiency in all these countries is coming to be replaced increasingly by an industrial economy which is essentially tied up with world trade. Most of the countries in the region have emerged from a colonial status into independent states with a renascent and sensitized nationalism. There is in these countries abundant enthusiasm for new goals set up after achieving independence; but this is dampened with a sense of self-doubt that prevails as much amidst the leaders as amidst the led. Thus in this region a generation of people appears to be trying to outlive its history and live on hopes for a new future.

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