Preparatory MeetingAryaduta Hotel Jakarta, 28th October 2012

It is about building a

democratic dialogue in

ASEANSince 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.

JustificationThe 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 also 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

BACK-TOBACK DIALOGUE MEETING JAKARTA HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE3RD INFORMAL DIALOGUE WITH ASEAN

SECRETARY GENERAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS Press Conference

COMMUNITY DIALOGUE: INFORMAL LUNCH WITH WITH ASEAN CPR

RECEPTION AT THE RESIDENCE OF THE AMBASSADOR OF SWITZERLAND

JAKARTA HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUEObjective: to exchange views on the progress,

challenges and possibilities of human rights regional architecture development in the context of the review of the ASEAN Charter

Open for public, including mediaKeynote Speaker: H.E. Hassan N. WirajudaDiscussants: Herman Kraft, Rafendi Djamin,

Meidyatama SuryodiningratVenue: Ballroom, Aryaduta Hotel, Jakarta

3rd INFORMAL DIALOGUE with ASG on HUMAN RIGHTSASEAN 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

INFORMAL DIALOGUE IN THE LAST 4 YEARSYears2009, Jakarta ASEAN Forum on Human

Rights: 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

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 Southeast Asia’s CSO

2013 ?

3rd INFORMAL DIALOGUE with ASG on HUMAN RIGHTSExpanding participants: NGOs + Think Tank +

Academes. Hoping to have more sectors in the future.

Divided into: JHRD + Dialogue with ASGLooking forward to make it institutionalizedCSIS-HRWG-Swiss Embassy in Jakarta Invitation onlyWill be started at 14:00-16:00Press Conference at 16:00-16:30 + Press

Release

AchievementsThe 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

These two events generate more similar dialogue: INFORMAL LUNCH between ASEAN CPR and Civil Society (30th October 2012)

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 people-centered 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

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 ASEC24 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, Indonesia’s CSO Prep Meeting for 2011’s chairmanship

CSO recommended a Community Dialogue to ASEAN

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

Visits from 2011-2012CPR Met stakeholders in Lombok, Indonesia, 2011

CPR Visited The Jakarta Post, 2012 (Photo: courtesy of TJP)

About CPR ASEANCPR 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,

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 recommendationsWith AICHR and ACWC, CPR has a role to provide

recommendations on their work-plan and budget as consideration of ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ approval

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.

CPR ASEANSultanate of Brunei DarussalamH.E. Emaleen Abdul Rahman Teo

Kingdom of CambodiaH.E. Amb. Kan Pharidh

Republic of IndonesiaH.E. Amb. Ngurah Swajaya

CPR ASEAN

Lao PDRH.E. Amb. Latsamy Keomany

MalaysiaH.E. Dato’ Hasnudin Hamzah

Republic of the Union of MyanmarH.E. U Min Lwin

Republic of the PhilippinesVacant

CPR ASEANRepublic of SingaporeH.E. Amb. Lim Thuan Kuan

Kingdom of ThailandH.E. Suvat Chirapant

Socialist Republic of VietnamH.E. Mr. Vu Dang Dung