Indonesia will have its work cut out for it in the 42nd summit, because the region it’s pushing as a center for global economic growth is also at the center of geopolitical tensions affecting the world. ASEAN2023
LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia – Southeast Asian leaders are convening in an Indonesian fishing town which serves as a gateway for exciting tropical tourist destinations, including a glistening pink beach and an island of beastly Komodo dragons.
International policy expert Dinna Prapto Raharja, former Indonesian representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights, in a piece for Heinrich Böll Foundation, said the summit’s theme “suggests that Indonesia is confident in leading dialogues and actions on economic growth as much as it is on political and security issues.”
Collectively, the 10 member-states of ASEAN are the third largest economy in Asia and seventh largest in the world. With a population of over 630 million – over 65% of whom are below the age of 35 – it is a region with young, dynamic labor that drives economic growth by consumption. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., in a recent bilateral meeting with Biden, said the region may have “the most complicated geopolitical situation in the world right now.” He was not exaggerating. , there is Russia’s war on Ukraine and China’s aggressions against Taiwan and the South China Sea to think about.
Indonesia has promised to “intensify” discussions between China and the bloc to finalize a code of conduct for the South China Sea. Talks to create the code officially began more than two decades ago, in 2002. in the waters – including in areas part of the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone – intensify.
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