Is ASEAN Truly for the People?
Joanne Lin
Joanne Lin explores the importance of a people-centred ASEAN and ways that the organisation can enhance engagement with its people, ahead of the 56th ASEAN Day celebrations.

Joanne Lin
Joanne Lin explores the importance of a people-centred ASEAN and ways that the organisation can enhance engagement with its people, ahead of the 56th ASEAN Day celebrations.
Joanne Lin
Joanne Lin looks at what the recent ASEAN High-Level Meetings have achieved and if ASEAN can indeed play a regional leadership role under Indonesia’s Chairmanship.
Charmaine Leong
Charmaine Leong explores the rise of Astrotourism in Southeast Asia and its imperative for scientific advancement.
Gwen Robinson
Gwen Robinson looks at the evolving crisis in Myanmar and highlights the diminishing role of ASEAN as the international community runs out of patience.
Melinda Martinus
Melinda Martinus calls for ASEAN to harness the rise of the digital economy beyond profit to focus on the people and environment.
Bony Wiem Lestari|Aly Diana|Adriana Viola Miranda|Fadilah Fitri Arsy
Bony Wiem Lestari, Aly Diana, Adriana Viola Miranda, and Fadilah Fitri Arsy call for ASEAN countries to enhance regional collective actions for future health preparedness.
Julia Tijaja
Julia Tijaja highlights several initiatives and Indonesia’s role in re-energising the ASEAN Economic Community.
Pongphisoot Busbarat|Richard Javad Heydarian|Hoang Thi Ha|Shafiah F. Muhibat|Bich Tran
ASEANFocus invites experts to assess ASEAN’s engagement in the Indo-Pacific and how the region can advance its role in shaping the regional architecture amid the shift in the geopolitical landscape.
Ian Storey
Indonesia plans to convene a meeting with some of its ASEAN colleagues to discuss the South China Sea. The idea is not new, but this time it might just work.
Sharon Seah|Moe Thuzar
In this episode of Dialogues at Fulcrum, William Choong, Managing Editor of Fulcrum, talks to ISEAS researchers Moe Thuzar and Sharon Seah about the 38th and 39th ASEAN Summits. They discuss the key highlights of the meetings, ASEAN’s continued engagement with external powers such as Australia, China and the United States, and Cambodia’s chairing of ASEAN in 2022.