The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Efforts to Approve Myanmar Transitional Government Proposal on ASEAN 2014 Chairmanship
Abstract: In 2011, Myanmar
proposed to take the 2014 Chairmanship by swapping their turn with Laos. This
is a deviation to ASEAN Charter Article 31 which says that the Chairmanship of
ASEAN shall rotate annually based on the alphabetical order of the English
names of Member States. Fortunately, by default, Myanmar’s Chairmanship would
have to be in 2016 after Malaysia in 2015. Despite this and also considering
year 2014 is crucial as it is only a year before the plan of the realization of
ASEAN Economic Community on 31st January 2015, ASEAN approved Myanmar’s 2014
Chairmanship proposal. Thus, this research aims to examine the reasons what was
ASEAN motives to support Myanmar Democratic Reform, and how ASEAN implements
its efforts to initiate Myanmar for ASEAN 2014 Chairmanship. In conducting the
research, the writer elaborated constructivism theory and institutional
approach from international organization theory, which are used as theoretical
framework. Through theory of constructivism, the ramification of past events is
analyzed. The analysis is conducted particularly by identifying series of
events and change of circumstance that affects ASEAN, Myanmar, and other state
actors involved. This is done to identify possible factors affecting ASEAN’s
decision to approve Myanmar’s 2014Chairmanship proposal. Meanwhile, through
institutional approach from international organization theory, the ASEAN
Charter is used as a guide to analyze the basis of ASEAN’s assessment of the
eligibility of Myanmar’s Chairmanship. ASEAN Charter Article 32 as stated the
role of the chairman is the particular article which is used in this research
as ASEAN’s standard of procedures (SOP) in assessing Myanmar’s eligibility.
Keywords: Piagam ASEAN,
Myanmar, Asia Tenggara, pasar tunggal, ketua Asean
Penulis: Hendra Manurung
Kode Jurnal: jphubintdd150351
