Projected niches emerging in pharmacy educationamong ASEAN countries

This short report aimed to describe the impacts of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) integration on the Pharmacy education (PE) landscape in the ASEAN region. This report synthesised literature, included journal articles and articles on web pages, and was directed to identify gaps regarding PE harmonisation in the ASEAN region. Later, the authors added the COVID-19 pandemic effects, as this report was written during the outbreak. This report describes two essential points of PE harmonisation, i.e. 1) Variations of PE programmes among ASEAN state members; 2) Contributions of forums involving PE institutions in the ASEAN region. Several gaps were identified in this report. How prepared are the pharmacists and educators? How could the existing PE forums contribute to the collaboration and harmonisation among PE institutions in the region? What can be learned from this current pandemic situation to move forward to the harmonisation in the post-pandemic era?

The Form of Dispute Settlement in The Border of Sea Region of Asean State Members and Its Implications to Indonesia

The ASEAN Charter itself has been recently effective on 15th December 2008 after going through the ratification of the ASEAN state members that have ratified a charter that makes the regional bloc into an "legal" institution (Legal Personality) for the first time. As we know the relationship among ten ASEAN state members does not always work smoothly. Sometimes disputes arise also where the most frequently occurring case is concerned to the regional border or annexation of Malaysia-Singapore about the regional annexation of Batu Pateh, Thailand-Cambodia border as a seizure and the other border areas. Particularly in the sea region a dispute is often occurred among ASEAN state members since at some certain marine areas it is still not yet clear about the borders of its territory. This has resulted in overlapping claims among these countries. It influences the fishing areas where the fishing boats and fishermen would be considered illegal fishing when crossing the boundaries of sea claimed by a country. Though the sea areas are not yet clear about the ownership. Eventually it became a dispute among ASEAN state members. Hence, it takes ways of resolving disputes among ASEAN state members. In this case, the ASEAN Charter contains the methods for settling disputes among ASEAN state members. Indonesia itself is one of ASEAN state members which has sea border with some ASEAN state members which also have sea dispute. Therefore, Indonesia also participated and signed the agreement and will also be bound at later by the ways set out in the ASEAN Charter.

ASEAN Resistance to Sovereignty Violation

This book investigates the history of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) stance on external intervention in regional affairs. It asks when has ASEAN state resistance to sovereignty challenges succeeded, and when have they failed? ASEAN’s history of (non)resistance is understood in terms of a realist theoretical logic, focusing on the relationship between an ASEAN ‘vanguard state’ and selected external powers. A ‘vanguard state’ is defined as an ASEAN state that comes to the fore of the Association when it has vital interests at stake that it wishes to pursue. Whilst a state’s interests may vary, vital interests relate to state survival and the preservation of state sovereignty. Once a vanguard state has come to prominence, it will perform two major functions, which reflect an external balancing logic. The vanguard state will actively seek out an external power whose interests align with its own, and will seek to portray a united ASEAN front in support of its interests. Using case study analysis and drawing on a large amount of previously unanalysed material, this book contends that when an ASEAN vanguard state has interests that converge with those of an external power, it has an active and substantial role in resisting sovereignty violation.

The News Coverage of Indonesia Media toward AEC

The paper aims to elaborate the analysis of news coverage of Indonesia media toward ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) issue. Each media has its own framing of the news. I would like to know the framing of several online media in Indonesia to respond the AEC issue. The paper will discuss the news from two of popular online media in Indonesia. The paper would analyze news using the framing analysis. Through that way, the paper would present the comparison of how media�s framing about AEC. Do the two online media frame AEC as the battle field to gain national interest as realism- mercantilism paradigm point of view or frame AEC as the mutual effort of ASEAN state members to reach the mutual prosperity as regional entity like neo-liberalism paradigm sees it?