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The member states of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) pledged to enhance their partnership in the field of culture and the arts, aiming to promote the role of Asean culture and the arts for inclusion and sustainability.
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): With last week’s Asean Summit in Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara, failing to produce detailed, practical plans to address the region’s most pressing issues, foreign policy analysts are calling on Indonesia to act more independently of a bloc they say is all but immobilized and may be headed for “self-destruction”.
Preparations are underway for Laos to host the next Asean summit in 2024, with a national-level meeting convened on Thursday at the Prime Minister's Office to discuss the arrangements.