The Great Steps of ASEAN

The Great Steps of ASEAN
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For 50 years ASEAN has been running, this organization which consists of 10 members has contributed greatly to the community among the members. ASEAN is an organization that prioritizes the mutual respect among all member and value on the diversity. Thus, ASEAN does not have strict regulation such as punishment among the country because this organization was formed on the belief that cooperation is the key of ASEAN harmony. ASEAN was formed in 1967 based on Bangkok Declaration 8 August 1967 which has purpose to accelerate the economic growth, social progress, and cultural development, to promote regional peace and stability, to promote active collaboration and mutual assistance, to promote Southeast Asian studies and enhance cooperation among the members.

ASEAN belief that respect for the autonomy of each members is important, therefore, in the ASEAN Principle there is a non-interference principle which no country from the member states can interference others country’s autonomy. All country must respect the national policy and let the country member solve the problem itself. It gives the country members sovereignty to solve the problem without any intervention from another member which might jeopardize the sovereignty.

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However, ASEAN is trying to enhance the cooperation in many sectors. Therefore, ASEAN Community in 2015 was officially running. ASEAN Community has 3 important Pillars, first, ASEAN Political-Security Community. This pillars is focused on cooperation to counter any transnational crime such as trafficking as well as prioritize diplomatic and dialogue to solve the conflict among the members. Second, ASEAN Economic Community. This pillar is focused on the economic cooperation and economic growth goods and services. This pillar also allow skillful people can work abroad in other ASEAN countries, which mean, there will be more competitive workforce and more opportunities. The third pillar is ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community. This pillar is a unique pillar since the culture is being important part to enhance diversity among the member states by conducting exchange culture events and studies.

Puja Mandala Bali (sumber : Blog Vokamo.Com)
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As harmony is what ASEAN wants to achieve, Indonesia has one example showing that people with diverse religion can live together. Puja Mandala Bali located in Nusa Dua Bali is a complex of 5 different religions in one location. It has a mosque, Catholic and Protestant Churches and also a Monastery. Built in 1994 on 2 acres land this complex was built with aid from Bali Tourism Development Centre (PT. BTDC). The society thinks that this complex is a good example on how different religions can live peacefully. In fact, the way they communicate each other during the prayer time can be example to what happened in Indonesia right now which the sentiment of religion becomes heat issue. If both religions have prayer time in the same time, they will communicate and try to figure out the solution. A simple example of harmony that can be applied in the world and ASEAN right now.

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In other hand, ASEAN also has concern on the humanitarian issue, it can be seen from ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Right (AICHR) that formed in 2009. This body is formed by ASEAN under ASEAN supervision to promote human right and discuss humanitarian issues. However, even though many challenges faced by AICHR but this body keep promoting human right establishment in Southeast Asia region. There are many challenges ASEAN faces right now, the challenges are developing from conflict among the country (G to G), economic challenges and now with the world of technology millennia, hoax news also being one of the challenges of ASEAN. Nowadays, there are many online media that hardly to control. These media can write about anything and shared in social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and others. Unfortunately, many of the media tend to promote hoax news with no firm sources of the content. This act can lead to misunderstanding about something and worse, propaganda. Even though ASEAN has joint task on terrorism but it cannot face hoax news alone. ASEAN need us as ASEAN citizen to counter hoax, considering on the danger of hoax itself. Therefore, digital diplomacy now is very important to us to apply. We need to promote good thing instead of fake news as well as double check when a news comes out. The culture of literacy is the key to counter the hoax because when we have a firm knowledge about something, we will not easily be confronted by hoax.

In order to counter hoax, all media must realize the danger of it and work together with government to clarify or even report the hoax news. This is our duty to make our world better and minimize the conflict. Hoax news now can be a major cause of conflict because of the propaganda from anonymous media.

As hoax being a very crucial issue, there is an apps that can be used to avoid any hoax. It called Hoax Analyzer, this apps is created by team Cimol from Institute Teknologi Bandung and can trace the source of the news so that if the source is not really firm it can be considered as hoax.

What Cimol team has done was based on the concern of the danger of hoax. this also proves that ASEAN or even the world needs us to counter the hoax.

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