At thirty, ASEAN looks to challenges in the new millennium

Contemporary Southeast Asia

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 74-85

  Mutalib, Hussin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 84933477737     PISSN: 0129797X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1355/CS19-1D     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. This idea was first publicly raised by the Malaysian Foreign Minister then. See Straits Times (Singapore), 5 May 1989.
2. For a short write-up of this idea before its official launching, see Sunday Times (Singapore), 17 July 1994.
3. See an appraisal of this aspect of ASEAN’s effective diplomacy in C.P.F. Luhulima, “The Third ASEAN Summit and Beyond”, Indonesian Quarterly 7, no. 1 (1989): 12–28, esp. p. 21.
4. This latter term was originally of Arabic origin, mu’afakat.
5. This policy has been articulated by different foreign ministers within ASEAN in BBC News, “East Asia Today”, 23 April 97 and a statement from Singapore’s Foreign Minister, S. Jayakumar, published in the Straits Times (Singapore), 2 May 1997.
6. See a recent critique by a leading Indonesian entrepreneur, Sofjan Wanandi, in “Viewpoints”, Asiaweek, 18 April 1997, p. 68.
7. Almost all existing ASEAN leaders openly welcome the two Indochinese states and Myanmar. See a recent interview with the Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, in Asiaweek, 9 May 1997, p. 32.
8. Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s remarks, in a court affidavit, about Johor (Malay-sia’s southern-most state, closest to Singapore) being an unsafe place — of muggings, car-jackings and shootings — have antagonized the Malaysian Cabinet and people. Despite his unreserved apology, the bitterness of the episode lingered on and was covered prominently in the mass media of both countries throughout April and May 1997. See a sample of a recent coverage in the Sunday Times (Singapore) of 4 May 1997, under the special segment “Sunday Review”.