SOCIETY | INDONESIA |ASEAN Indo-Pacific guide still impractical, but not a lost cause: experts

December 11, 2022December 11, 2022 Contributor 4 Comments but not a lost cause: experts, SOCIETY | INDONESIA |ASEAN Indo-Pacific guide still impractical

Philippines’ President Ferdinand Marcos Jr (left), Thailand’s Prayut Chan-O-Cha (third left), Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (fourth left), Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah (fifth left), Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni (fifth right), Prime Minister Hun Sen (fouth right), Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo (third right), Laos’ Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh (second right) and Malaysia’s lower house speaker Azhar Azizan Harun (right) walk during a courtesy call to Cambodia’s king before the ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh on Nov. 10. (AFP/Kenn Sovanarra)

Operationalization remained ASEAN’s biggest challenge in actualizing its Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP), experts from across the region have said as hope prevails that the 10-nations group could actualize the much-needed document.

Deliberating possible solutions at the 13th General Conference of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, panelists suggested that some tweaks to the document may prove useful to overcome the profound challenges if ASEAN wishes to actualize its vision.

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“The [AOIP] requires a set of concrete, actionable plans of action. Something that we have not yet seen so far. Leaders should ask the ASEAN coordinating council to explore the development of an ASEAN road map for promoting an open Indo-Pacific,” Rizal Sukma, a senior researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), said on Friday.