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MALAYSIAN STUDIES : ASSIGNMENT 3
1. DISCUSS MALAYSIA’S ROLE IN REGIONAL AND WORLD AFFAIRS.
INTRODUCTIONMalaysia plays an important role in establishing cooperation in various directions through active
participation in diverse areas like trade, environment and social development. Ties of unity aligned
along regional understanding are very important for building up a network of sustained sharing among
Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia through the Association of Asian
Nations (ASEAN). Universality in the more and more complex process of development and
advancement, for example, technology and knowledge, requires South East Asian countries to come
together through commonly approved external policies. Cooperation in politics, security, culture,
respect for freedom, sovereignty, regional stability and non-interference in the United Nations
Organisation. Malaysia continues to be openly committed, based on regional and international
cooperation, to the creation of universal peace. Malaysia actively plays a role according to her
capability in efforts to help other developing countries through various programmes such as the South-
South Dialogue. Regional and international cooperation is important as a way of benefiting more
efficiently from resources and enhancing her competitiveness in a new era of international cooperation.
MALAYSIA AND REGIONAL RELATIONSASEAN is the Organisation of South East Asian Countries, set up following the Bangkok Declaration of 8
August, 1967. all five Foreign Ministers of the member countries at that time, Tun Adam Malik of
Indonesia, Tun Thanat Khoman Of Thailand, S.Rajaratnam of Singapore, Narcisco Ramos of the
Philippines and Tun Abdul Razak of Malaysia unanimously signed the declaration. On 7 january 1984,
Brunei Darussalam joined ASEAN. In March 1999, Cambodia became the seventh member of ASEAN,
followed later by Vietnam, Myamar (Burma) and Laos making ten members altogether now.
ASEAN was build up because of the failure to build up a comprehensive sustained, unified regional
and international strength through the South Asia Organization (ASA). The failure of MAPHINDO,
established in August 1963 was also a reason for ASEAN to be set up as an organization that stand
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firm, symbolizing precisely the agreement of countries in the region. In the spirits of solidarity,
advantage is taken of the organization to avert all negative elements that can split ASEAN unity. The
concept of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) was implemented to underline the importance of the
aspect of maritime boundaries as a right for common economic exploitation like minerals and fishing. At
the same time, it is also to avoid political disputes among countries in the region.The firm ASEAN
solidarity policy managed to avert differences, for example, the Malaysia-Thai dispute over the maritime
zone between south Thailand and the state of Kelantan (1977); Malaysia- Indonesian disagreement
over the area in South China Sea and eastern Sabah.
ASEAN Objective:
Objective Programs Strategies
Speed up economic
growth, social and
cultural progress
Nature and protect
regional peace and
stability founded on
justice and the laws
based on the
Charted of the
United Nations
i. Elimination of smuggling
actives and communist threat
ii. Kuala Lumpur Declaration-27
November, 1971
iii. ZOPFAN
iv. United Nations Conference
On Drug Abuse and Heroin
Trafficking
v. ASEAN Industrial Project
vi. ASEAN Economic Minister’
Coference
Regional cooperation
Shared boundaries
Consultation and joint patrol
Maintains relations with the
People’s Republic in China
Supply and Purchase of basic
commodities
Cooperation among countries in
the Mekong Valley
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MALAYSIA AND WORLD AFFAIRSThe Commonwealth Organization is an organization of former, independent British colonies. The
organization symbolizes an association of effective interwoven networking that holds together the
former colonial territories as countries that are still united not just with British but with other former
British protectorates such as Australian. Today 49 members in the Commonwealth including Malaysia.
Malaysia uses the Commonwealth as a bridge for participating in various socioeconomic and political
activities. In the context, Malaysia is the Commonwealth Secretariat for drawing up technical
cooperation programs such as technology, management, and environment.
South-south cooperation is a strategic programs for strengthening friendly ties among members of
the Movement of Non-aligned Countries or “Non-Aligned Movement” specifically in the aspect of
protection of trade, banking and finance, price fixing and commodities, industry, information exchange ,
investment and technical cooperation. Nam’s 13th Conference hosted by Kuala Lumpur in February
2003 ended with a collective call to “seek justice and freedom from oppression and economic
hegemony, besides making war illegal to solve the world’s problem”.
As an Islamic nation, Malaysia is a respected role model because of her continual efforts at forging
closer ties with other Islamic countries in the world. Malaysian leaders have always try to enhance and
establish the glory of Islam, since the time of the first Prime Minister. The outcome of all this was the
decision to form the Organization of Islamic countries. The decision was made at the Conference of
Islamic Foreign Ministers in Jeddah. The Organization of Islamic countries, was set up in May 1971.
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