Yang Ming Shan

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

what youth can do towards ASEAN Community 2015 part. 3

Facing the Diversity through Youth Coordination

Donny Bagus Prasetya

ASEAN has been actively moving towards regional integration. Starting with its agreement on the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) in 1992, followed by the ASEAN Vision 2020 in 1997, which set out a broad vision, leading up the year 2020, for peace, stability and prosperity in ASEAN through regional development and cooperation. In 2003, ASEAN adopted the declaration of ASEAN Concord II, which aims at the establishment of an ASEAN Community through the realization of three communities: Security Community, Economic Community, and Socio-Cultural Community. In 2004, ASEAN adopted the Vientiane Action Programme, which outlines a road map for the ASEAN Community. The adoption of the VAP accelerated the process of integration that aims to create a single market and production.

ASEAN consist of diversity among its society, not only the race and culture but also the diversity in each country internal circumstance such as political characteristic, economic growth, information and technology, and perspective in human right and democracy. The existence of ASEAN Community aims to stimulate the welfare for the entire people. The misunderstanding of each country leads to the failure of ASEAN Community. This essay aims to explain the emergence of facing the diversity towards the establishment ASEAN Community in youth level as ASEAN generation who will hold and involve in ASEAN Community six years later. The misunderstanding in perspective towards other ASEAN Countries will break the true meaning of ASEAN Community. Facing the diversity through the coordination will lead to the reducing of the misunderstanding towards other ASEAN countries characteristic. But, what coordination has been done and should be improved to strength the sense of belonging of ASEAN Community towards ASEAN youth?

The establishment of ASEAN Community needs participation from the entire element of each country such the Government Level-Professionals-Youth-Academic. In this essay, I’d like to concern the involvement of Youth as student to explore coordination and its functions towards ASEAN Community. The involvement of youth in national and regional activities will encourage the sense of belonging of ASEAN Community through coordination among youth of ASEAN countries and reduce the diversity among ASEAN countries for the achievement of ASEAN Community and its aims to the three pillars of ASEAN Community, ASEAN Economic Community, ASEAN Security Community, and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community.

The governments of ASEAN Countries as the main actors in the ASEAN Community already facilitated the youth collaboration through activities in student exchange among ASEAN Countries. The activity helps promoting the ASEAN awareness in youth level by sharing information and experience for cooperation. In the other hand, ASEAN youth cooperation must be encouraged to promote the involvement of ASEAN youth in national and regional activities. The activities stimulate, discover, and develop youth potentials in leadership, social management, civic responsibility and promoting the opportunity for youth to watch the decision making process and procedure in ASEAN forum. The involvement of ASEAN youth in national and regional activities contents two specific aims, they are that the involvement of ASEAN youth will converge the ASEAN youth as the first step to promoting the awareness of ASEAN community and second that youth can participate in “managing the social impact of economic integration” and “promoting an ASEAN identity”.

Cooperation among ASEAN youths wish leads to the awareness of belonging of ASEAN community. ASEAN community aims to stimulate the welfare for the entire people of ASEAN. Therefore, the cooperation among youth does on many ways such as leadership and cross cultural understanding. The ASEAN youth exchange will conduct these aims by learning and understanding other ASEAN countries social and culture. The student exchange also proved the cooperation in which ASEAN student involve in facing the needed of discussion about ASEAN opportunity and challenge as regional community. Team building of ASEANM youth community will lead us the future cooperation as generations. Here, the diversity will color the ASEAN community and its diversity will complete each other towards the establishment of ASEAN community and lay the youth role as generations who involve in the process of regional organizations purposes.

what youth can do towards ASEAN Community 2015 part. 2

PEOPLE – TO – PEOPLE DIPLOMACY TOWARDS INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Donny Bagus Prasetya

International Cooperation could define as the common efforts of international community towards international situations and transnational issues with aims of mutual benefit, such commerce and world peace, such counter – terrorism. International Cooperation emerged from its character of interdependency in which collective action has seen as best way to find best solutions. International Cooperation have not dismissed since long time ago before and after the born of nation – state. The born of nation – state defined the International Cooperation as collective action among nations pursued mutual benefit in economic or/and against international problem that threat the international public. International situation means different power and resources of each country, therefore they need to be survived by cooperation. Now days, the coming of transnational and globalization concepts push the International Cooperation in other actors to contribute. The fact that something the government can not cover public interests and abolish their rights, the need of non government institution has came. The era of new actor in International Cooperation begin since 19th century, which we called as Non Government Organizations (NGOs) and they have been existed in many countries. People – to – people diplomacy as new ways of among states public communications, provide dialog and emerge mutual understanding among them and collective actions without government role or minimum access of government role. NGOs existence in international cooperation encouraged the controversy, mainly between NGOs and Government.
Government inability to cover its society interest and injustice actions, push some people in NGOs go down to help them advocacy their rights. Today, NGOs go with their mission towards each country, but the main role of government has challenged them to implement their values. NGOs only campaign what the problems are. Like two NGOs, Green Peace and Amnesty International. However, Green Peace can not play full role towards environment damage or illegal logging because they has faced with some interest from government body to pursue economic fact and Amnesty International can not fully change the condition of human right and poverty in some country because they have challenged with the government system. Main challenging of both NGOs is in country legal law, however nation – state still the main actor of decision maker. The opposite situation is in democracy country. Democracy let public and NGOs to advocacy their interest and rights, but the final decision still on government hand, at least the democracy countries give NGOs one step to involved in public problem and corporate globally towards international problem that threat human existence. In the other hand, we can conclude that the involvement of NGOs in international corporation give public a space to advocacy their interest and the corporation could touch the grassroots level because of the ability and NGOs job in small areas.
The forest cutting in Indonesia could not solve by Indonesia government only or local NGOs only. International cooperation with global NGOs would increase the support of International public towards environment problem; this support became important for them because Indonesia has big forest which contributed clean air for the world. The terrorism and the threat from the using of nuclear weapon have attracted world attention. North Korean nuclear weapon is one of them, government – to – government cooperation and dialog between United States and North Korean could not show good signal because there was not legal agreement between both countries. As independent body, NGOs should have big contribution by people – to – people dialog. Better situation, we found between United Sates and Iran which United States NGOs and Iran NGOs opened public dialog. The dialog would contribute to both country mutual understanding and the prevention actions could be done. Beyond of States Corporation, the international NGOs Corporation also helps the domestic worker and labors in Southeast Asian from the dangerous of human trafficking and violence. ILO and NGOs move the actions for the protection of domestic workers from forced labor and trafficking in Southeast Asian. The NGOs would organize the domestic worker, such as in Hong Kong. The unions such as IMWU, KOTKIHO, and FDWGU nonetheless have an important role to play in advocacy and educational efforts, as well as direct assistance to members. In Philippines is SUMAPI, NGO working on protection of migrant working women and children. In Indonesia is Rumpun Tjoet Nyak Dien (RTND), conducts media campaigns and policy advocacy on behalf of domestic workers. But the main challenges facing these organizations are fund raising, organizational management, and dismissal of members by their employers on grounds of union activity. The involvement of ILO would effectively to solve and prevent these problems, because of the existence of this International Organizations under authority of United Nations and have support from many countries. From the entire descriptions above, people – to – people diplomacy play main role in international cooperation in which the governments could not cover some people interest and its society rights. Reference from domino’s theory, unsolved problem in one country would spread in its neighbors, the collective actions of international society is needed.

what youth can do towards ASEAN Community 2015

A Free Drugs Youth of ASEAN towards ASEAN Community 2015

Donny Bagus Prasetya


Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) is regional organization of Southeast Asian countries within 11 countries as its members and its purposes. The ASEAN Declaration states that the aims and purposes of the Association are, to accelerate economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the region and to promote regional peace and stability through abiding respect for justice and the rule of law in the relationship among countries in the region and adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter. Strength it existence as regional organization, ASEAN going to growth with ASEAN Community with its three areas, ASEAN Economic Community, ASEAN Security Community, and ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community.

By the declaration of ASEAN Charter, some of ASEAN purposes are, to strengthen cooperation in building a safe, secure and drug free area environment for the people of ASEAN, to promote a people oriented ASEAN in which all sectors of Society are encouraged to participate in, and benefit from, the process of ASEAN integration and Community building, and to promote as ASEAN identity through the fostering of greater awareness of the diverse culture and heritage of the region.

In this essay, will explore the involvement of ASEAN youth towards ASEAN Community 2015 by participating to create stability of secure in the region. ASEAN contents the diversity and pluralism on its people and its culture and also heritage. The first important things to reach the ASEAN Community are enhancing the awareness of ASEAN people and sense of belonging of ASEAN in its people, mainly youth. The involvement of youth has its values as their position of future leader of their states and ASEAN. The establishment of qualified ASEAN youth are facing with two problems, they are, how to enhance the sense of belonging of ASEAN Community and second, against international crime that threat the qualification of ASEAN youth, exactly the threat come from drug crime in the region. This essay will explain what youth can do against the drug crime towards ASEAN purpose in ASEAN Community 2015 to make ASEAN as “an ASEAN Free Drug Area”. While, by that activity, how ASEAN youth should corporate and enhance the awareness from the cooperation?

ASEAN is not only facing with the challenge to growth the sense of belonging of ASEAN on its people but also the international crime of drug. To develop and strengthen the ASEAN Community, ASEAN must prepare its generations as future leader to lead ASEAN reaching the welfare for all people. Drugs already threat the generations and threat the creation of best future leader. The dangerous of drug will weak and destroy the qualification of ASEAN youth. The dangerous of drug must be attended by all element of ASEAN, included the government, academics, grassroots, and youth. All people of ASEAN have responsibility to stop the drug crime. Youth as energic and active people must stand on the front to against the drug crime, because youths are the targets of drug but also the hero to defeat the drug.

With the existence of ASEAN as regional organization, the cooperation among ASEAN youth is a way to tackling the drug crime in region. Youth cooperation could be done with various ways. One of the various ways is the involvement of youth to campaign the dangerous of drug along with all ASEAN youth. Free flow of information among ASEAN youth together campaign the dangerous of drug not only in their state. Here, the establishment of ASEAN Youth Council is very important to organize and command ASEAN youth activities, exactly in drug tackling coordination and collaboration. ASEAN Youth Council along with ASEAN Secretariat can implement positive activities that encourage the youth to avoid drug and leadership training for their self and the growth of sense of belonging of ASEAN. In other words, everyone can join to campaign the dangerous of drug and even tackling the drug.

ASEAN Youth Council for Drug Crime will involve all ASEAN youth to campaign and actively participate in drug tackling and drug campaign. The organized activity of drug tackling also effectively to enhance the sense of belonging of ASEAN in youth by the coordination, corporation, and collaboration among ASEAN youths. Those there values not only lead the creation of qualifying future leader of ASEAN but also lead to the reducing of drug crime in region gradually. Teamwork activities will effectively to enhance the awareness sense of belonging by responsibility towards ASEAN security and its consideration of youth as ASEAN future leader must have cross cultural understanding in diverse culture and heritage in ASEAN Countries.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

first running

hope it can create the real life of me by writing and be corrected by the readers.