The document discusses the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including its history, members, goals, and economic integration efforts. Specifically, it summarizes that ASEAN was established in 1967 in Thailand to promote regional stability and economic growth. It currently has 10 members and aims to develop an ASEAN Economic Community through increasing trade, mobility of labor and capital, and economic cooperation among members.

1. What is ASEAN stand for?
Association of South East Asian Nations

2. ASEAN Emblem has 4 colors
White = Purity
Blue = PEACE and Stability
Yellow = Prosperity
Red = Courage and Dynamic

3. The establish of ASEAN
• ASEAN declaration or BANGKOK
declaration
• 8/8/1967 At Salang-rom Palace
• Gather together to against
“Communist”

4. The establish of ASEAN cont.
• THAI representative is Mr. Thanat Khoman,
The Minister of Foreign Affair
• ASEAN Secretariat is in Jakarta, Indonesia
Secretary-General of ASEAN is Mr. Surin
Pitsawan

5. Member of the ASEAN
1. Indonesia
2. Malaysia
3. Philippines 1967
4. Singapore
5. Thailand

6. Member of ASEAN [cont.]
6. Brunei 1884
7. Vietnam 1995
8. Laos 1997
9. Myanmar 1997
10.Cambodia 1999

7. ASEAN Community
• One Vision, One Identity, One
Community
• Let us move ahead

8. ASEAN Community cont.
• For what? For assemble of the following thing
=> AEC (ASEAN Economic Community)
=> ASC (ASEAN Security Community)
=> ASCC (ASEAN Socio Culture Community)
, and it is great chance for high-skilled labor to
move to ASEAN countries freely as ASEAN
Citizen and about the inter-marriage.

9. Goal of ASEAN
Together as ten, We are stronger
• Promote regional peace and stability
• Accelerate the economic growth
• Social and Culture Progress

10. Political Objective: Peace and Stable
• Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast
Asia (1967)
– Contain fundamentals principles on interstate
relation
– Provides mechanisms for pacific settlement of
dispute
• Treaty of Nuclear Weapon Free-Zone 1995
– Not allow develop, manufacture, acquire, possess.
Test or use Nuclear Weapon

11. Political Objective: Peace and Stable
ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF)
• Confidence-building
• Preventive Diplomacy
• Conflict resolution
• Member: ASEAN and observer country
(Mongolia and Papua), EU, US and Canada,
China, Australia, Russia, New Zealand, Japan,
India, and Korea.
• Trip* “Africa and Latin America is not member”

12. Objective: Economic Integration
• Free Trade Area (FTA): Eliminate or remove
tariff barriers among the Southeast Asian
countries
• Increase movement of people, labor, goods
and capital among nation by making free flow
of these above thing

13. Level/Stage of Economic Integration
1. Free Trade Area (FTA): Eliminate or remove
tariff barriers among
2. Custom Union (CU) : FTA + have common
trade-policy toward external member
3. Common Market (CM): CU + allow factors of
production to move freely among member

14. Level/Stage of Economic Integration
cont.
4. Economic Union (EU): CM+ require common
Currency, monetary, and fiscal policy.
> adopt of common internal economic policy,
and external trade policy.
5. Political Union: Politic, economic, social &
foreigner policy of member are coordinate.

15. External Relations: Inter-regional
cooperation
• ASEM: Asia Europe Meeting
• APEC: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
• EALAF: East Asia-Latin America Forum
• ASEAN+3 : + Japan + China + South Korea
• ASEAN+4: + India
• ASEAN+6: + Australia + New Zealand
• ASEAN+8: + Us + Russia

16. Noodle Bowl Effect
• The negative impact that many countries try
to have bilateral FTA, even they are under the
framework of ASEAN
ex,
– Tha> Jpn
– Singapore > US
– Malaysia > Jpn

17. SEA: A region of diversity
Political System
• Constitutional monarchy: Cambodia
• Parliamentary Republic: Singapore
• Constitutional monarchy and Parliament
Democracy : Thailand and Malaysia
• Military Dictatorship: Myanmar
• Socialist Republic: Laos and Vietnam
• Presidential system: Indonesia and Philippine
• Absolute Islamic Sultanate: Brunei

18. SEA: A region of diversity
Gross Domestic Product
• Indonesia = 410.3 (highest)
• Laos = 4 [lowest]
• Thailand = 2nd
• GDP is highest, but it doesn’t mean you are
the most rich,, Why?
GDP and Rich status are different!

19. SEA: A region of diversity
Gross Domestic Product
• GDP is highest, but it doesn’t mean you are
the most rich,, Why?
• GDP is a gross income per a people. So, if
there are very high population, but in fact
citizen’s income are low. The status still will
show up you are high GDP

20. SEA: A region of diversity
Gross Domestic Product
• If you want to know about the rich, you have
look at about income and population together
,then compute and compare them

21. SEA: A region of diversity
Literacy
• Most is Brunei >>> 92.7
• Lowest is Laos >>>68.7
• Thailand is 2nd

22. Attitudes and Awareness
toward ASEAN
• Toward ASEAN as a whole
– ASEAN enthusiasm: Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam
– ASEAN ambivalence: Singapore
– ASEAN skepticism: Myanmar

23. Attitudes and Awareness
toward ASEAN cont.
• ASEAN citizenship; I feel I am a citizen of
ASEAN
– Strong: Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
– Least: Singapore and Maynmar

24. Attitudes and Awareness
toward ASEAN cont.
• Similarity among ASEAN countries
– Greatest sense of similarities: Vietnam, Laos,
Cambodia, and Indonesia
– Least sense of similarities: Singapore, Brunei,
Myanmar, Malaysia

25. Attitudes and Awareness
toward ASEAN cont.
• How familiar are you with ASEAN
– Greatest sense of familiarity: Vietnam, Laos,
– Least sense of familiarity: Singapore, Brunei,
Myanmar

26. Attitudes and Awareness
toward ASEAN cont.
• Orientation toward travel and work
– Travel: Singapore > Thailand > Malaysia > Vietnam
– Work: Singapore > Malaysia > Brunei > Thailand

27. Attitudes and Awareness
Aspiration for Integration and Action
1. Economic Cooperation
2. Tourism
3. Development Assistance
4. Education Exchange
5. Security and military Cooperation
6. Sport
7. Cultural Exchange
8. Political Cooperation

28. Attitudes and Awareness
Aspiration for Integration and Action
cont.
• Most important of aspiration:
– Poverty reduce
– Education exchange and improvement
– Science and Technology development
• Moderately important
– Natural resources and Environmental
management
• Low: Cultural Preservative or keep retaining

29. ACMECS
• Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Meakong Economic
Cooperation Strategy
• 5 members: Myanmar, Laos, Thailand,
Cambodia, and Vietnam
• Existing Condition & Constraints
– Trade and investment
– Transport
• To discuss how to manage Maekong and the
riverside together which make highest
profitibility by retaining of Surrounding

30. ACMECS Goals
• Bridge the gap among the four countries
• Transfer the border areas into zone of
economic growth
• Act as a catalyst to build upon existing
regional, complement bilateral framework,
and move ASEAN forward

31. Thailand’s role in ACMECS
• As an Active member
• As a Development partners
• As a Business supporter

32. Thailand’s role in ACMECS
Thailand assist 7,792M.Bath for 16 project to
develop neighbor.
It is Thai Fiscal!,,,, not ASEAN fiscal

33. GMS: Greater Maekong Subregion
• 6 members: China, Myanmar, Laos,
Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam
– Connective
– Competitiveness
– Community

34. Maekong Delta
• The ending of Mekong river at Vietnam before
go out to South China Ocean
Nine dragon: when Mekong river meet the
South China Sea, “it separate into 9 rivers”,
called Nine dragon, at Mekong delta

35. Joint Development Strategy for
border areas : JDS
•
- Thailand-
Malaysia Committee on Joint Development Strategy
for border areas : JDS
• Stability and Security

36. IMT-GT
•
- - Indonesia-
Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle:IMT-GT
• Avail influenza energy Tsunami & Earthquake
security
• Fishery