As current chair of the regional body ASEAN, Indonesia is tasked with resolving a conflict that has killed thousands. Progress has been slow.
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It is the time for ASEAN to reevaluated the implementation of 5 Points of Consensus and explore more effective measures that could put pressure on Myanmar’s military junta.
Beijing has dialled back its aggressive stance and is adopting a more proactive and confident diplomacy to counter US encirclement.
The African Union compares well to other continental unions. It accomplishes more than the Commonwealth or the Francophonie.
Myanmar’s two-year resistance to the brutal military regime barely registers in the West. But Ukraine shows that Western military force can be successfully used to support a democracy under siege.
Indonesia could turn this year’s ASEAN Chairmanship into opportunities that will benefit not just itself, but the region as a whole.
While we should be extremely thankful that some political prisoners are being released from Myanmar’s jails, we should also recognise they should never have been there in the first place.
The nation’s long-held desire to become an ASEAN member is at last moving - but exactly when and how it will achieve full membership remains unknown.
Indonesia’s reluctance to respond to the conflict is based on the fact that its economy is still very dependent on China.
Indonesia could initiate and encourage a military-to-military engagement with Myanmar, so that Myanmar can consider the example of Indonesia’s military reform.
The AU needs to address two main problems to steer Africa into a prosperous future – the use of unconstitutional means by some leaders to cling to power and disregard for the rule of law.
The Coalition’s track record was mostly positive until the AUKUS announcement.
Africa runs the risk, yet again, of being an onlooker while others make policy for the continent.
ASEAN has thus far been ineffectual, while China has leverage but has failed to act. If a negotiated end to the crisis is to happen, who will take the lead?
With the regime’s brutality on daily display, peaceful protests have largely been abandoned. Unless there’s a negotiated settlement, Myanmar looks headed for a long and bloody civil war.
Will the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, known as ASEAN, start taking tougher stances against authoritarian and military regimes? Its recent treatment of Myanmar’s military ruler is promising.
Myanmar’s chair was embarrassingly empty at a recent summit, a rebuff to the military junta that took control of the country in a coup earlier this year.
Keeping silent is not a strategic option.
ASEAN countries fear a potential arms race and future confrontation between great powers taking place in their region.
With hundreds now killed since the coup and civilians increasingly taking up arms against the junta, there are fears the country could be headed toward civil war.
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Senior Lecturer in International Studies in the School of Society and Culture, Adelaide University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Tasmania
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Director of China-Indonesia Desk, Center of Economic and Law Studies (CELIOS)
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director, La Trobe Centre for Global Security, and Professor of International Relations, La Trobe University
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Research Fellow, Indonesian Institute of Advanced International Studies (INADIS)
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Professor of International Relations, University of Otago
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Head of department of Politics, Government, and International Relations of Universitas Brawijaya, Universitas Brawijaya
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PhD Candidate at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Researcher, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia
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Professor of Asian Studies, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, School of Law, Western Sydney University
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Universitas Bakrie