The A SEAN ISSUE 04 | AUGUST 2020 YOUTH AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT BUILDING BLOCKS FOR BETTER COMMUNITIES ISSN 2721-8058 CONVERSATIONS VIEWPOINT INSIDE VIEW ASEAN’s Young and Inspiring Singaporean Olympic Education, Training and Sports Social Entrepreneurs Champion Joseph Schooling for Youth Development s of ight R n and n and G ome Wome ender W en hildr are C L elf t ab W en or ial pm oc elo ACW S ev D nd ACWC a SLOM nt e on m ti SOMSWD C p a iv o ic i l d l S ve ra e e E rvi D y c l rt e a e r v u o AMMW R P SOMRDPE SOM-ACCSM d n AMMSWD ALMM a AMRDPE ACCSM H s e t r a o lt p ASEAN SOCIO-CULTURAL h S SOMS COMMUNITY SOMHD n o l i i t c AMMS a AHMM n Ministerial Bodies r u o o b C a l and Senior Officials l C o C c S s A e t s r a e o i t i f d l i e n o c e o a b i t l f t t i a a d SOM-ED ASED r AMMDM c n m o u ASCC a t d l m c i E e o c t s C n n Council ’ u C e s l o S m a C S i e A c C g g f C a S n ACDM O n A o a r s m o t M i r a n o s r e t e AMMY S p r COP-AADMER p o st u f a S e f is o SOMY D Y SOCA o u t h AMRI AMME AMCA COP-AATHP SOMRI ASOEN t n e In m fo n r o m COCI* vir ati En on SOMCA COM Cu ltu re e an az d y H Art ar s und sbo Tran Ministerial Bodies Sectoral Bodies * takes guidance from and reports to both AMCA and AMRI AMRI-ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Information AMMDM-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting SOMRDPE-Senior Officials Meeting on Rural on Disaster Management Development and Poverty Eradication AMCA-ASEAN Ministers Responsible for Culture and Arts COP-AADMER-Conference of the Parties to the ASEAN SOMSWD-Senior Officials Meeting on Social AMMY-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Youth Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Welfare and Development ASED-ASEAN Education Ministers Meeting Response ACWC-ASEAN Commission on the Promotion AMMS-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Sports AMME-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Environment and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children AMRDPE-ASEAN Ministers on Rural Development and COP to AATHP-Conference of the Parties to the ASEAN ACW-ASEAN Committee on Women Poverty Eradication Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution SLOM-Senior Labour Officials Meeting AMMSWD-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Social Welfare SOMCA-Senior Officials Meeting on Culture and Arts SOM-ACCSM-Senior Officials Meeting and Development COCI-The ASEAN Committee for Culture and Information on ASEAN Cooperation on Civil Service Matters AMMW-ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Women SOMRI-Senior Officials Meeting Responsible for SOMHD-Senior Officials Meeting on Health Development ALMM-ASEAN Labour Ministers Meeting Information ACDM-ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management ACCSM-The Heads of Civil Service Meeting SOMY-Senior Officials Meeting on Youth ASOEN-ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment for ASEAN Cooperation on Civil Service Matters SOMED-Senior Officials Meeting on Education COM to AATHP-Committee under the Conference of Parties AHMM-ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting SOMS-Senior Officials Meeting on Sports to the ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution ASCC Magazine March 2020 IBC_AR_Edt v3-Chosen.indd 1 4/28/20 6:52 PM Contents 3 In this issue 18 49 Secretary-General of ASEAN Dato Lim Jock Hoi Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN Impact for ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Kung Phoak Higher Education for a Competitive 14 ASEAN Workforce EDITORIAL BOARD Building Globally Competitive ASEAN 17 Directors of ASCC Directorates Rodora T. Babaran, Universities and Students Through the Ky-Anh Nguyen SHARE Scholarship The Inside View: Assistant Directors of ASCC Divisions Youth and Skills Snapshots Ferdinal Fernando, Jonathan Tan, Skilled Youth Today, Stronger ASEAN Tomorrow 6 ASEAN Celebrates 53rd 45 Mary Anne Therese Manuson, What is the ASEAN Youth Development Index? 12 Anniversary Virtually Mega Irena, Sita Sumrit, Vong Sok Preparing ASEAN’s Youth for the Labour Market: 18 ASEAN-China Cooperation: Alleviating 48 A Look at the Role of In-Company Training Poverty Caused by the COVID-19 EDITORIAL TEAM COVID-19: Sports for a Stronger ASEAN 21 Pandemic Editor-in-Chief Mary Kathleen Quiano-Castro Footballers Urge Fans to Stay Healthy and Active Arts and Culture Tangible Impact of COVID-19 on 49 Associate Editor Reimagining the Power of Sports in ASEAN 25 Joanne B. Agbisit Intangible Cultural Heritage ASEAN Impact Challenge: Young Social 31 Staff Writer Entrepreneurs Imagine a Sustainable A Look Back at Southeast Asia’s 52 Novia D. Rulistia Economic Future for ASEAN Traditional Games Senior Officer of ASCC Analysis Division Kiran Sagoo EDITORIAL ADDRESS The ASEAN Secretariat 28 34 40 ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Department Jalan Sisingamangaraja 70A Jakarta 12110, Indonesia Tel: 62-21-7262991 E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 2721-8058 Interviews Lao Youth Union Secretary 10 Conversations Shifting Currents General Alounxai Sounnalath Louise Mabulo 34 Technology, A Boon for the 40 FIFA Secretary General 22 Joseph Phan Van Quyen 36 ASEAN Workforce? Fatma Samoura Lim Chong Tee 37 Literacy for All in ASEAN 43 Joseph Isaac Schooling 28 Aung Myint Myat Kyaw 38 Cover Illustration by Jojo Limpo 4 A Note from the Editors A Note from the Editorial Team The ASEAN celebrated its 53rd anniversary century skills; vocational education and A SEAN ISSUE 01 | MAY 2020 in a low-key virtual ceremony training; and social entrepreneurship. on 8 August. This year’s theme In our Conversations section, we hear is a call to build a cohesive and from four young innovators who resilient community amidst the empower their communities. COVID-19 pandemic. A Shared Identity We also focus on the role of sports Becoming ASEAN ISSN 2721-8058 SHIFTING CURRENTS THE INSIDE VIEW SNAPSHOTS COVID-19: A Collective Unity, Diversity ASEAN Heritage Park Conference Many young men and women in the development in building up our youth, Response in ASEAN and ASEAN Identity Highlights Sustainability and Innovation region have been stepping into action: even as many sporting events are put frontline workers, implementors and on hold. The Tokyo Summer Olympics Issue 1 volunteers in social welfare projects, will now be held in 2021, and Olympic https://bit.ly/ innovators in digital technology and swimming gold medalist Joseph TheASEAN_V1 services, and social entrepreneurs. Schooling shares how he is preparing for it. ASEAN’s football players and fans But these are indeed challenging times will be pleased to learn more about The for everyone; our youth today face ASEAN-FIFA’s collaboration to ISSUE 02 | JUNE 2020 uncertainty the likes of which we improve the sport in the region. ASEAN have never encountered. The editorial team would like to In this issue, Lao Youth Union thank all those who submitted their Secretary General H.E. Alounxai entries to the Youth and Skills Art Sounnalath, Chair of the ASEAN Competition. While no winner was The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Pandemics, and The Future of Work ISSN 2721-8058 Ministerial Meeting on Youth, selected for this issue’s cover, the IMPACT THE INSIDE VIEW SHIFTING CURRENTS ASEAN Builds Digital Transformation COVID-19 Response a Village and The Civil Service Enhanced Cooperation talks about the need to address magazine team chose two artworks vulnerabilities that the youth are to be featured in the inside pages. Issue 2 exposed to during these volatile times. Find the work of young Filipino https://bit.ly/ The pandemic is only one of the major artist Ramchad Tiongson on our TheASEAN_V2 disruptions in their lives, as they Shifting Currents page. The illustration try to carve out their futures. by Vania Djunaidi from Indonesia opens the Conversation section. ASEAN’s Head of the Education, Both budding artists expressed The Youth and Sports Division, Mary the need for resilience, as young A SEAN ISSUE 03 | JULY 2020 Therese Manuson, underscores how people like them face many disruptions provide an opportunity challenges of today. for ASEAN to help youth build skills that are adaptive to future risks. There was a point in our lives As ASEAN Human Development when we were the youths of our Department Director Rodora Babaran previous generation, but none of Social Protection for All in ASEAN ISSN 2721-8058 SNAPSHOTS THE INSIDE VIEW SHIFTING CURRENTS The 36th Social Protection and How ASEAN The State of Informal explains, ASEAN’s partnerships to us encountered this kind of global ASEAN Summit Seeks to Leave No One Behind Employment provide Higher Education for the youth disruption during our time. While the will help build a more competitive youth will determine the environment Issue 3 workforce. Our contributors also of their future, it is part of our legacy to https://bit.ly/ highlight the importance of other tools ensure that we have equipped them TheASEAN_V3 needed for the future such as 21st- with the right tools to take them there. The ASEAN August 2020 Inside View Education, skills training, and sports development Night view of The Supertree Grove at Gardens by the Bay, Preparing ASEAN’s youth Singapore for the future © freezuan/Shutterstock Photo Credit: 6 The Inside View Youth and Skills had warned that if trends continue, by SKILLED YOUTH TODAY, 2030 around 800 million young people will not have the appropriate skills STRONGER ASEAN required to access the job market.