Joko Widodo reminded the bloc that it has agreed to not be a proxy to any powers.
Indonesian president Joko Widodo bangs the gavel as he opens the plenary session at the Asean Summit in Jakarta.
“Asean has agreed to not be a proxy to any powers. Don’t turn our ship into an arena for rivalry that is destructive,” Widodo said. But critics say that has limited its scope for action when it comes to handling issues like fellow member Myanmar, where violence rages two years after the military seized power in a 2021 coup.
“Obituaries on Asean actually have been written many times over, but somehow all those times, Asean has been able to reinvent itself and reassert its relevance. I feel today we are at one of those junctures,” he told an Asean business forum on Sunday.Some Asean members have focused on developing close diplomatic, business and military ties with Beijing while others are more wary.
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