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5. South China Sea
6 6. Straits of Malacca
2 and Singapore
7. Gulf of Thailand
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Southeast Asias Sea
Lines of
Communication
-ASEAN Community
means increased
importance of trade
and security of sea
lanes
2 What is a Maritime Community?
A sub-set of a larger security community comprised of a group of states
that
regularly interact with each other
attained a sense of community (we-feeling or togetherness) or
collective identity
adopted formal or informal norms, institutions, and practices
become integrated economically, politically etc.
hold dependable expectations of peaceful change
rule out the use of force to solve disputes
ASEANs Policy Framework
for Maritime Community Building
ASEAN Community Dialogue Partners
ASEAN Community 2015 ASEAN Regional Forum
Inter-Sessional Meeting on
ASEAN Political-Security Maritime Security
Community Council
East Asia Summit
ASEAN Defence Ministers ADMM-Plus
Meeting (ADMM) Expert Working Group on
ASEAN Charter Maritime Security
ASEAN Maritime Forum Expanded ASEAN Maritime
Forum
Track 1.5
Activities of ASEAN Navies
ASEAN Naval Interaction (2001-2010)
ASEAN Chiefs of Navy Meeting [ACNM] (2011-2017) - annual
ASEAN Navy Young Officers Interaction
Agreed Greeting and Communication Procedures
ASEAN Maritime Security Information Sharing Exercise (AMSISX)
ACNM Secretariat
ASEAN Maritime Security Exercise
ASEAN Counter-Terrorism Exercise
Activities of ASEAN Navies
ASEAN Militaries HA/DR and Military Medicine Exercise (AHMX)
Development of an ANCM-Plus process with Dialogue Partners
ASEAN Navies Two-Year Action Plans
ASEAN Navies HA/DR Standard Operating Procedures
ASEAN Navies Roadmap
ASEAN Multilateral Naval Exercise Standard Operating Procedure
(AMNEX SOP) Working Group
International Fleet Review 2017
ASEAN Navies Multilateral Combined Naval Exercise 2017
Australia
United
States
India ASEANs
eight
China Japan
Dialogue
Partners
Russia
South
(Plus)
Korea
New
Zealand
ASEAN-Dialogue Partner Capacity Building
Sea control (the use of sea for whatever purpose determined by
government, naval operations more likely in the littoral but not open
ocean)
Expeditionary operations (dealing with shore based instability and threats
from the sea)
Stability operations (including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief)
Inclusive good order at sea (safeguarding maritime commerce and energy
infrastructure, protection of natural resources from illegitimate
exploitation or environmental damage, and all forms of transnational crime
including piracy), and
Cooperative naval diplomacy
From ACNM to ACNM-Plus?
Conclusion
Comprehensive approach to security issues
non-traditional security challenges and threats
Traditional security challenges bilateral or mini-lateral
All ASEAN littoral states face similar challenges
Safety of navigation and aviation
Protection and management of marine resources
Marine environmental protection
Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief
Search and rescue at sea
Combating transnational crime, people trafficking, piracy, armed robbery and
smuggling
Acknowledgement
Slide 4 Physical geography map of Southeast Asia [maritime zones
were inserted by the author]
Slide 5 Southeast Asias sea lanes, and
Slide 7 10 Groups of Maritime Issues Discussed in 12 ASEAN Sectoral
Bodies