The Road to Ratification and Implementation of the ASEAN Charter

81 Pages·2008·1.487 MB·English

by  , Pavin Chachavalpongpun, , Pavin Chachavalpongpun, ;

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ISEAS Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
The road to ratification and implementation of the ASEAN Charter / edited by
Pavin Chachavalpongpun.
Expert Roundtable Discussion on the “Road to Ratification and Implementation
of ASEAN Charter” organized by the ASEAN Studies Centre, Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and The Habibie Center, Indonesia, on
17 July 2008 in Jakarta.
1. ASEAN.
2 ASEAN Charter.
3 Regionalism—Southeast Asia—Law and legislation.
I. Pavin Chachavalpongpun.
II. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ASEAN Studies Centre.
III.Habibie Center.
IV. Expert Roundtable Discussion on the “Road to Ratification and
Implementation of ASEAN Charter” (2008 : Jakarta, Indonesia)
JZ5333.5 A9R62 2009
ISBN 978-981-230-897-6 (soft cover)
ISBN 978-981-230-899-3 (PDF)
Typeset by Superskill Graphics Pte Ltd
Printed in Singapore by Seng Lee Press Pte Ltd
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Contributors ix
1. Introduction 1
2. The ASEAN Charter: Towards its Ratification and
Implementation 15
Ali Alatas
3. The ASEAN Charter 24
Rodolfo C. Severino
4. The ASEAN Charter: The Case for Ratification 32
Dewi Fortuna Anwar
5. The ASEAN Charter: Neither Bold Nor Visionary 44
Rizal Sukma
6. The ASEAN Charter and a More People-Centric ASEAN 60
Anak Agung Banyu Perwita
7. The Ratification of the ASEAN Charter:
A View from a Parliamentarian 64
Djoko Susilo
Postscript 67
List of Participants 69
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The book on the Expert Roundtable Discussion on the topic “The
Road to Ratification and Implementation of the ASEAN Charter”,
is the third report in the publication series of the ASEAN Studies
Centre (ASC) of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS).
It is a compilation of papers presented at the Expert Roundtable
Discussion on 17 July 2008 in Jakarta, Indonesia, with the main
objective of helping shed light on the subject and contribute to
the public debate on it. The ASEAN Charter, signed in November
2007, was designed to accelerate the community-building process,
bringing together the ten members of ASEAN as one community.
The ASEAN Studies Centre hopes that the Expert Roundtable
Discussion will elicit some thinking on the ASEAN Charter and its
future implementation.
ASC would like to thank the Habibie Centre, Indonesia, for
jointly organizing this discussion, for the excellent arrangements,
and for coordinating with paper presenters and discussants. Special
gratitude goes to Professor Dewi Furtuna Anwar, Deputy Chairman
for Social Sciences and Humanities, Indonesian Institute of
Sciences (LIPI) and Director for Programme and Research, the
Habibie Centre, and Dr Ahmad Watik Pratiknya, Executive Director
of the Habibie Centre, for their unfailing support for this round-
table discussion.
The ASEAN Studies Centre would also like to thank all paper
presenters: Ali Alatas, former Indonesian Foreign Minister;
Professor Dewi Fortuna Anwar; and Dr Rizal Sukma, Centre of
Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta, Indonesia.
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viii Acknowledgements
Appreciation also goes to the two distinguished discussants:
Professor Dr Banyu Perwita, Vice Rector of Parahyangan
University, Bandung; and Djoko Susilo, member of Commission I
of the Indonesian Parliament, for their invaluable thoughts on the
ASEAN Charter.
The ASEAN Studies Centre owes special thanks to members
of the Habibie Centre: Wenny Pahlemy, Fuadi Rrasyid, Mirad
Indiar Böhm, and others whose names are not listed here. The
Expert Roundtable Discussion would have been impossible
without support from them.
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CONTRIBUTORS
1. Ali Alatas isformer Foreign Minister of Indonesia. He was
amember of the Eminent Persons Group appointed to draw
up recommendations on the ASEAN Charter for the ASEAN
leaders. He is currently advisor and special envoy of the
President of the Republic of Indonesia (since January 2003).
Address: Departemen Luar Negeri
Gedung Utama Lt. 3 ruang 325
Jl. Pejambon No. 6
Jakarta 10110
Indonesia
Tel: [phone]
2. Rodolfo C. Severino is the first Head of ASEAN Studies
Centre. AVisiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies since 2004, Severino served as
ASEAN Secretary General in 1998–2002. A former Philippine
career diplomat, he has served as Under-Secretary of Foreign
Affairs and Ambassador to Malaysia. He has published a
book entitled Southeast Asia in Search of an ASEAN
Community (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2006).
Address: ASEAN Studies Centre
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Pasir Panjang
Singapore 119614
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
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3. Dewi Fortuna Anwar is Director for Programme and Research
at the Habibie Centre, Deputy Chairman for Social Sciences
and Humanities of the Indonesian Institute of Science,and
a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for
Information and Development Studies. Dr Anwar held the
positions of Assistant to the Vice President for Global Affairs
and Assistant Minister/State Secretary for Foreign Affairs
during the Habibie administration.She has worked as a
Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
in Singapore and as a Congressional Fellow at the U.S.
Congress in Washington D.C.
Address: The Habibie Centre
Jl. Kemang Selatan No. 98
Jakarta 12560
Indonesia
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
4. Rizal Sukma is Deputy Executive Director of the Centre
for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia.
He is also the Chairman of International Relations Division,
Central Executive Board of Muhammadiyah (second largest
Islamic organisation in Indonesia with approximately
twenty-five million members); member of the board at Syafii
Maarif Institute for Culture and Humanity; a Visiting
Lecturer at the Department of International Relations at
Muhammadiyah University, Malang; and a member of the
National Committee on Strategic Defense Review, Ministry
of Defence, Indonesia.
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