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ESTABLISHMENTOFASSOCIATION OF SOUTH EAST ASIAN NATION
Association of South East Asian Nation
(
ASEAN
) has been establish in 08 August, 1967. Firstwas named as organization call
Association of Southeast Asia
(
ASA
), which has 5 founding Nations is
Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Philippine
. By the meeting in Thailand Department of Foreign Affair (
TDFA
),
ASEAN
has been established officially by
Bangkok Declaration
in that day. Thiscommunity is created in purpose to build up a good relationship inside the region, and focus about security, peace, and to prevent with widened of communist regime. As an
Association of South East Asia
(
ASA
),But thi
s community has not last longer, because many nations states inside the region didn’t support this
community.
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This concept of build this Community is found by
Mr. TUNKU Abdul Rahman
Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Mr. Rahman
has been discuss about this concept of building up the community with
Philippine’s president, who name’s
Carlos Garcia
, while the unofficial visiting in
Philippine in January,1959
. Across the discussion the leader of both countries has been agreed and tries to persuade other neighbor countries to sign in the economics and friendship agreement in
South East Asia
to adopt aregional cooperation framework.