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After more than a year of discussion, ASEAN members has adopted its geopolitic concept document in Indo-Pacific region which proposed by Indonesia in the 34th ASEAN Summit which known as ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific. The outlook emphasizes common interests of cooperation which prioritized in the maritime cooperation, regional connectivity, the United Nations’s SDGs and Economic sector. It is intended as ASEAN’s countries guidance to promote cooperation among countries especially its external partners by using ASEAN-led mechanisms. Politically for ASEAN, the Indo-Pacific Outlook is an alternative regional order to face the expansion of great powers and US-China rivalry cause it has threatened ASEAN’s claimed of centrality in regional security achitecture.   Based on the fact that ASEAN’s countries is located at the heart of the Indo-Pacific, ASEAN has translated their geographic fact in the region into geopolitical influence. Keywords for the ASEAN Indo-Pacific concept in...

The Silk Road Economic Belt and 21 st Maritime Silk Road – also called One Belt One Road Initiative is China’s foreign and economic policies that have been initiated by President Xi Jinping. It aims to strengthen China’s domestic and foreign policies through a vast infrastructure program throughout China’s neighboring regions. On 2017, China host the Belt and Road Forum for international cooperation in Beijing. It lifted the Belt and Road project into a higher level of cooperation. One Belt, One Road Initiative explores seven key regional spheres covered by the Belt-Road Initiative: Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Russia, South Asia and South-east Asia. On the South-east Asia’s section, OBOR covers nine states : Indonesia, Thailand, The Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos. The nine economies states are home to nearly 640m people, generating US$ 2.5 trn in combined GDP. ...