Of the many meetings throughout the ASEAN Summit week, the one that I was most proud of was the ASEAN Joint Foreign and Economic Ministers’ (AMM-AEM) Meeting held on 25 October. The last time the foreign and economic ministers of ASEAN sat together for a…
One of the courses I did at the Australian National University in the early 2000s was on contemporary Indonesian politics, and Adam Schwarz’s A Nation In Waiting: Indonesia’s Search For Stability was a part of the compulsory course reading. It was an updated version of…
I would like to thank ASEAN Deputy Secretary-General Satvinder Singh and the ASEAN Secretariat for the report on the outlook of this year and the next. I would also take this opportunity to welcome Timor-Leste for joining the group and be part of this big…
I would like to congratulate Datuk Professor Dr Mohd Faiz Abdullah of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS), and Dr. Ram Madhav of the India Foundation for organising this inaugural India-ASEAN Strategic Dialogue. I visited Delhi twice—last year and this year—to attend the…
For those interested, after Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim presented Budget 2026 in his capacity as Finance Minister yesterday, I would recommend that you read the various books and documents that constitute the Budgetary process. I was first elected to the Parliament in 2008.…
I co-chaired a roundtable of ASEAN policymakers on the steel industry with the Secretary-General of the South East Asia Iron and Steel Institute (SEAISI) Yeoh Wee Jin and MITI’s Deputy Secretary-General Dato’ Hanafi Sakri. While the steel industry associations in ASEAN engage each other via…