1. Preparatory Meeting:
a. The 2013 Dialogue between ASG, ASEC, CSO
Representatives,
b. the 2nd ASEAN Community Dialogue with CPR,
c. the 2nd JHRD
Yuyun Wahyuningrum, Senior Advisor on ASEAN and
Human Rights, Human Rights Working Group (HRWG)
Grand Hyatt, Jakarta, 31 October 2013

2. • Participants are well informed about the character of each
dialogue meeting
• Participants come up with statement/talking points to
different actors in each dialogue meeting
• Participants will be bale to maximize the platform for
their advocacy’s goal
Expected Outputs

3. CSO Platforms in engaging ASEAN
Name
frequent
Engaging the body
ACSC/APF
annually
ASEAN SUMMIT
Head of
States/Governments
ASEAN Disability Forum (ADF)
annually
ASEAN Youth Forum
annually
ASEAN Grass-root People Assembly
annually
ASEAN Community Dialogue
annually
ASEAN Committee Permanent
Representatives (CPR)
CPR
Civil Society Forum to AMM on human
rights
annually
ASEAN Ministers Meeting (AMM)
Foreign Ministers
Informal Dialogue between CSO and
ASG
annually
ASEAN Secretary General (ASG)
Secretary General
Jakarta Human Rights Dialogue in
ASEAN
annually
ASEAN Human Rights Mechanisms
AICHR, ACWC
GO-NGO Forum on Social Welfare &
Development
annually
ASEAN Senior Official Meeting on
SWD
SOM officials

4. ASEAN Community Dialogue, 2012

5. Informal Dialogue with ASEAN
Secretary General, 2012

6. Meeting with Minister Foreign
Affairs, 2012

7. It is about building
a democratic
dialogue in ASEAN
Since the adoption of ASEAN Charter in 2008,
much was said about engaging civil society,
respecting human rights, promoting democracy and
about good governance in ASEAN’s high-level
statements and documents.

8. Justification
• The common problems faced by regional inter-governmental
bodies, including ASEAN:
• a) institutional deficiencies as a result of the inability of member
states to empower their organizations with real authority/mandate to
deal inter alia with political instability, poverty, and human rights
violations; and
• b) the alienation of citizens from making their voice heard in political
deliberations.
• In fact, the ASEAN Charter sets out the norms of behavior for
member states in relation to their citizens.
• The Charter and the Roadmap for the ASEAN Community,
ASEAN is expected to perform in a more transparent,
accountable, efficient, predictable, responsive and people-oriented
way
• Article 7.1 (TOR AICHR) mandates ASG to bring the attention of
AICHR on human rights issues in the region

9. BACK-TO-BACK DIALOGUE MEETING
(1-3 Nov 2013) - Program
• 31 October – CSO Preparatory Meeting
• 1 November 2013
• (10:00-12:00am) 2nd ASEAN Community Dialogue: Luncheon
with ASEAN CPR
• (2-5pm) 2013 Dialogue between ASEAN Secretary General, the
ASEAN Secretariat, and the Representative of Civil Society
Organizations
• Debriefing
• Reception at the Residence of the Ambassador of Switzerland
• 2-3 November: the 2nd Jakarta Human Rights Dialogue

10. The 2013 Dialogue Between ASG, ASEC
and the Representative of CSOs
• ASEAN Secretary General is mandated to "facilitate and monitor
progress in the implementation of ASEAN agreements and decisions,
and submit an annual report on the work of ASEAN to the ASEAN
Summit" (Charter, Article 11.2b).
• ASG also has the additional task to bring to the attention of the
ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)
all relevant human right issues and to concurrently inform the ASEAN
Foreign Ministers (AICHR’s TOR, Article 7.1)
• With this mandate, the ASG is in an important position to:
• Bridge the relationship between civil society and member states
• Bring the concerns of civil society on human rights issues to the
AICHR and to the Foreign Ministers

11. CSO DIALOGUE IN THE LAST 5 YEARS
Years
2009, Jakarta
ASG brought the attention of
ASEAN Forum on Human Rights:
Dialogue between the ASEAN Secretary AICHR on the importance of
engaging civil society in their
General and Southeast Asia’s CSO
meetings in ASEC
2010
-
2011, Jakarta
ASEAN Forum on Human Rights:
Informal Dialogue between the ASEAN
Secretary General and Southeast Asia’s
CSO
ASG brought the attention of
AICHR on the importance of
engaging civil society in their
meetings in ASEC
2012, Jakarta
ASEAN Forum on Human Rights:
Informal Dialogue between the ASEAN
Secretary General and the
Representative of CSO
This platform has generated the
1st ASEAN Community
Dialogue with CPR and the 1st
Jakarta Human Rights Dialogue
2013, Jakarta
ASEAN Forum on Human Rights:
The 2013 Dialogue between ASEAN
Secretary General, ASEAN Secretariat,
and the Representative of CSOs

12. Achievements
• The inclusion on the civil society’s call upon AICHR to ascertain that
AHRD will not fall below the standards set out in the Universal
Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) in the TOR Drafting Group of
the AHRD.
• Dialogue’s recommendation to create a full-fledge secretariat for
AICHR in order to improve its work of AICHR has been included in
the Chairman’s Statement of the 20th ASEAN Summit in April 2012
• ‘Dialogue is now a new normal in ASEAN’ – according to Surin
Pitsuwan – there has been a change of behavior in ASEAN towards
dialogue incl. with CSOs
• Dialogue between ASG and CSO has generated similar initiatives such
as ASEAN Community Dialogue (with CPR) and the Jakarta Human
Rights Dialogue (with AICHR)

13. The 2013 Dialogue between ASG, ASEC and the
Representative of CSOs
• Expanding participants: NGOs + Think Tank/ Academes +
Youth. Different sector of NGOs
• Looking forward to make it institutionalized
• CSIS-HRWG-Swiss Embassy in Jakarta
• Invitation only
• Will be started at 14:00-16:30
• Topic: Human Rights aspect in ASEAN Community
building: the role of civil society
• Statement (talking points)

14. COMMUNITY DIALOGUE
between ASEAN CPR & Civil Society
• Initiated by Permanent Representative of Indonesia,
HRWG, CSIS and Swiss Embassy in Jakarta
• Purpose: to come up with a common understanding
on the changing ASEAN and identify strategic role of
civil society in building up the ASEAN’s peoplecentered Community.
• First Time, Not easy to bring all CPRs together for
this meeting. Not open for media (at the moment).
• Emphasize: make the dialogue smooth and successful
so we can establish good practice for replication in
the coming years
• Possible topic for 2013: ASEAN Community post
2015, the involvement of CSO,

15. BACKGROUND
16 December 2009, at ASEAN Secretariat,
during the first year anniversary of ASEAN
Charter
Surin Pitsuwan: ASEAN should have a
Dialogue Forum to exchange views between
ASEAN and its stakeholders on three
pillars. This statement was reflected in
ASEC Press Release, 2009
2010
No action/follow up from ASEC
24 November 2010 at Penang Bistro,
Jakarta, CSO Consultation with MFA
Indonesia for Indonesia’s agenda in 2011’s
chairmanship
The idea of COMMUNITY FORUM with
ASEAN stakeholders was discussed with
MFA Indonesia
8-10 December 2010, Lumire Hotel, Jakarta, CSO recommended a Community Dialogue
Indonesia’s CSO Prep Meeting for 2011’s
to ASEAN
chairmanship

16. BACKGROUND
2011
MFA DG ASEAN picked up the idea to be the
benchmark of the ASEAN Anniversary. Wanted to
started with Indonesia’s Community Dialogue on
ASEAN
7 January 2011
DG ASEAN planned to launch the idea in February.
Minister Natalegawa mentioned it in his annual
press statement
12 January 2011, ASEC Press
Release
Minister Natalegawa repeated the statement on 12
Jan 2011 at the ASEAN Secretariat during the
Ceremony of Handing Over the Chair of CPR from
Vietnam to Indonesia
From 2011 to 2012
PR Indonesia took CPR Members to meet civil
society, media, universities, think tanks, parliament
members, local governments as a way of practicing
engagement

17. Visits from 2011-2012
CPR Met stakeholders in
Lombok, Indonesia, 2011
CPR Visited The Jakarta Post,
2012 (Photo: courtesy of TJP)

18. ASEAN Organization Chart

19. About CPR ASEAN
• CPR stands for Committee Permanent Representatives in ASEAN.
They are Country’s Ambassadors to ASEAN and based in Jakarta
• The establishment of CPR is based on the ASEAN Charter Art. 12.
• Mandates and Functions:
• Support the work of Community Councils and ASEAN Sectoral Bodies at
ministerial level;
• Coordinate with ASEAN National Secretariats and Agencies ASEAN
Sectoral Ministerial another;
• Be a liaison to the Secretary-General of ASEAN and the ASEAN
Secretariat in all areas relevant to the job;
• Facilitate ASEAN cooperation with external partners,

20. About CPR ASEAN
• In support of the work of ASEAN Community Council, CPR
has the following duties and functions:
• Increasing cooperation in each sector to support ASEAN
integration and community building by monitoring / monitoring
follow-up report from the Sectoral Bodies under three Community
Councils;
• Doing Coordination between the pillars Community and ASEAN
sectoral meetings to support policy coherence and coordination,
and
• Assist in the delivery of various reports and recommendations
• With AICHR and ACWC, CPR has a role to provide
recommendations on their work-plan and budget as
consideration of ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ approval

21. Update on CPR’s Works
• CPR ASEAN is assisted by two (2) Working Group, each of which
handles administrative and budget as well as development
cooperation (development cooperation).
• Since its inauguration, CPR ASEAN has produced a variety of
conditions, rules and procedures, terms of reference for the
establishment of new mechanisms after the entry into force of the
ASEAN Charter and coordinate the cooperation with ASEAN
partners.
• CPR ASEAN meets regularly every month, both internally or inviting
the Ambassador or representative dialogue partner countries or
ASEAN's external partners and international organizations.
• CPR ASEAN delivers its report to ASEAN Coordinating Council.
• To date, CPR ASEAN has initiated various activities in cooperation
with the States Ambassador to non-ASEAN based in Jakarta.
• Up to now, there are 52 non-ASEAN countries have appointed
ambassador to ASEAN.

22. CPR ASEAN
Brunei Darussalam
H.E. Emaleen Abdul Rahman Teo
Kingdom of Cambodia
H.E. Amb. Kan Pharidh
Republic of Indonesia
H.E. Amb. Ngurah Swajaya

23. CPR ASEAN
Lao PDR
H.E. Amb. Latsamy Keomany
Malaysia
H.E. Dato’ Hasnudin Hamzah
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
H.E. U Min Lwin
Republic of the Philippines
H.E. Elizabeth P. Buensuceso

24. CPR ASEAN
Republic of Singapore
H.E. Tan Hung Seng
Kingdom of Thailand
H.E. Suvat Chirapant
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
H.E. Mr. Vu Dang Dung

25. JAKARTA HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE
• Topic: Prevention of Torture
• Objective:
• To map best practices to prevent torture that are practiced in ASEAN
Member States, and,
• To develop regional plan of action to implement the Article 14 by
exploring the experiences of other regional human rights mechanisms
such as in African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR)
and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

26. 2013 Dialogue with ASG,
ASEC
• Human Rights aspect in ASEAN
Community building: the role of
civil society
•
•
•
•
•
•
How should the new ASEAN organs,
like the AICHR and ACWC relate to
each other and with the other
ASEAN organs?
How should all of ASEAN’s organs
relate to its people and stakeholders?
CSO involvement in ASEAN
community building
There are structural and existential
issues that all intergovernmental
organizations experience. ASEAN
will not be able to avoid these
problems in its formative years in the
post-Charter period
How ASG and ASEC can
accountable to the people
TOR AICHR Review 2014
2nd ASEAN Community
Dialogue, 2013
Suggested topic:
• CSO Involvement: opportunities and
challenges
• Assessment ASEAN Community 2015
• ASEAN Community post 2015
• ASEAN Charter review:
•
•
•
•
•
The prescription of rules and procedures of
each ASEAN Community Council (Art 21)
The provision of good offices, conciliation
or mediation as requested by parties to the
dispute (Art 23)
The settlement of disputes which concern
the interpretation or application of ASEAN
economic agreements (Art 24)
The establishment of dispute settlement
mechanisms (Art 25)
The development of the capacity to
monitor compliance with the findings,
recommendations or decisions resulting
from an ASEAN dispute settlement
mechanism (Art 27)