t is indeed a historic coincidence that the Asian-African Conference Commemoration (AACC) is held during the integration of ASEAN into a single community of nations with a cohesive political, security, economic and sociocultural landscape. University integration within the region could be a catalyst to make ASEAN emulate a community like the European Union.
Sixty years ago, the conference reiterated the importance of promoting higher education cooperation across the two continents.
As mandated in its final communiqué, which was adopted in Bandung on April 24, 1955, three paragraphs stressed the importance of promoting higher education as an inherent part of the cooperation.