Novembre & Decembre 2013 International Further Information : http:// www.kemlu.go.id/abuja/Pages/Inside this issue: ASEAN claims to be on course to reach 2015 targets Tabloids.aspx?l=id ASEAN claims to realizing its big dream of forming Community, which is 1 s leaders of the 10 be on course to an economically integrated, supposed to be based on four reach 2015 ASEAN countries politically cohesive and socially tenets: a single market and meet their targets ... A responsible ASEAN Community production base; a highly counterparts from China, Japan, by 2015 that is supported by competitive economic region; South Korea, Australia, New China to host three pillars: the ASEAN a region of equitable 1 Zealand, India, the US and Political-Security Community, economic development, and a APEC 2014 …. Russia for a summit in Brunei the ASEAN Economic region fully integrated into the Darussalam on Wednesday and Community and the ASEAN global economy. Participants praise 2 Thursday, the question has Socio-cultural Community. Indonesia for Bali arisen of whether the grouping The Centre for Strategic Democracy Fo- can achieve its 2015 target of and International rum ... becoming a single community. The 10-member grouping will also seek to elevate its role in Studies’ (CSIS) executive RI calls on nations the greater region and to director Rizal Sukma said that 3 With 26 months to go before tohelp typhoon develop an ASEAN Vision ASEAN was a loose victims the deadline, the ASEAN Beyond 2015. organization with no rigid ‘concretely’... Secretariat has claimed that the mechanism for implementing regional grouping had made decisions. significant progress in However, analysts have APEC leaders 3 expressed skepticism over agree 7-point implementing a roadmap for “All ASEAN decisions are forming an ASEAN Community these claims. agreement ... not mandatory but voluntary in and was poised to meet all 2015 nature. The adoption of the targets. First, ASEAN has already RI firms benefit pushed back the date for the rules-based ASEAN Charter 4 in 2007 has not helped much,” from growing Afri- “We are very pleased to formation of the community from the beginning of 2015 to the end Rizal said. can economies ... note that we have seen a more concerted effort to assess and of 2015. Therefore, he has urged prioritize our work. For 2014, we member states to include a will remain focused on At present, most ASEAN sanctions mechanism in the expediting the implementation of officials are saying that the year ASEAN Charter. “Then and the remaining 2015 targets and 2015 would not be the end but only then will ASEAN ensuring greater convergence of the beginning of a long process progress.” the three ASEAN Community to form the ASEAN Community, pillars — where peace, stability given various differences in and development are one development, infrastructure, ASEAN has also been NAFED! 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China to host APEC 2014 Leaders will also discuss President Susilo Bam- 21st APEC meeting, which He guaranteed that the the ASEAN post-2015 vision bang Yudhoyono said APEC ran from Oct.1 to 8. 2014 summit would use inter- as an outline for ASEAN’s leaders’ commitment to national-standard facilities, future direction in maintaining achieving the Bogor Goals, The Bogor Goals were like the ones Indonesia had stable development and which was agreed at the one of the main agenda items used for this year’s summit. promoting centrality, a crucial APEC summit in Bogor, West discussed during the APEC element in the region’s current Java, in 1994, offered oppor- Summit in Bali. During their Zhao and his colleague, geopolitics. tunities to all parties. discussions, the APEC mem- Xia Jinggie, a councilor with bers agreed to achieve free the Intenational Economy The summit comes as ASEAN “After quite a long dis- and open trade and invest- Department at China's For- deals with increased tensions cussion, we finally agreed ment. eign Affairs Ministry, did not over territorial disputes in the several strategic points. We disclose specific details of the South China Sea. The ASEAN shared a point of view that all The Director of Beijing's budget for APEC 2014. Summit will be followed by the APEC economies should be Foreign Affairs Office, Zhao East Asia Summit. .(The able to reap equal benefits Huimin, said measures to Hong Kong has also Jakarta Post,) from the partnerships among prepare China - the world's been appointed to host an APEC economies,” said second-largest economy - for APEC Finance Ministers' President Yudhoyono, who APEC 2014 had begun. Meeting in September 2014. read out the results of the (The Jakarta Post,) year’s forum, themed Participants praise Indonesia for Bali De- “Consolidating Democracy in Pluralistic Society”, highlight- mocracy Forum ed that a pluralistic society characterized by religious nate that the BDF had been common understanding I diversity, cultural, ethnic and happening at a time when the summed up from the forum. political trends provided its country’s political history and This is also what China has own nuances and unique ttendees of the democratization progress was always advocated for and challenges in the application ABali Democracy being rewritten and had be- practiced in real earnest,” he of democratic principles in a Forum (BDF) expressed con- gun to unfold. The country is said. country. fidence in the continuing rele- preparing for a general elec- vance of the forum and its tion in October next year. “In this situation, we often value as the only inter- This year’s forum was witness ethnic conflicts, reli- governmental forum in the attended by 86 participating gious intolerance, communal Asia Pacific region to ex- “The rays of hope for a and observing countries, as violence and extremism. change experiences and best better Fiji that all Fijians are well as six international or- However, if these characteris- practices in democracy and now witnessing cannot come ganizations. tics of pluralistic society could good governance. without strong, decisive and caring leadership we have Indonesian Foreign Min- be addressed well, these been fortunate to enjoy since ister Marty Natalegawa said would be a considerable as- They appreciated Indone- 2006 and look forward to con- set in democratic dividends, sia for facilitating the oppor- that the increasing number of tinuing to enjoy after our elec- participating countries and including in supporting the tunity for identifying challeng- tion. That is essential if our economic development of a es that states have to over- international organizations pluralistic society enjoys the attested to the great interest country.” come in consolidating democ- dividend of a true democra- racy in a pluralistic society, shown by countries in the cy,” he said. During the interactive particularly conducting free Asia Pacific region and be- sessions on “Conducting Free and fair elections and building yond to promote democratic and Fair Elections”, partici- and strengthening democratic Lu Shumin, China’s as- values. pants underlined the im- institutions. sistant to the foreign minister, appreciated the forum for “This reflects a high de- portance of ensuring the in- conforming to the characteris- tegrity of elections as a cata- They also valued the gree of confidence among tic of the times when great countries in the region and lyst for an effective govern- forum, now in its sixth year, development, great change ment. They identified some for providing new insights for beyond in the forum. This and great adjustment was year’s forum has seen not important elements to ensure nations that are in the transi- taking place. free and fair elections, includ- tion to democracy and those only a greater number of par- ticipating countries, but also ing the existence of adequate that are more advanced, and constitutional frameworks; the for contributing to the demo- “To safeguard the diversi- wider coverage of countries, ty of civilization in an equal not only from the Asia Pacific guarantee of freedom of as- cratic architecture in the re- sociation, press, information gion and beyond.