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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is famous for his lack of interest in foreign affairs but when he attends the special ASEAN-South Korea summit in Busan next week, he needs to remember that the danger of nuclear war will no longer just come from North Korea, but also from the regional grouping’s key partners: South Korea and Japan.
ASEAN is the world’s youngest and most dynamic economic community. To transform its infinite potential into sustainable prosperity, it is crucial to increase connectivity in the region and cooperate in high-tech industries.
Korea’s New Southern Policy is indeed a future-oriented foreign policy based on empirical observation of ASEAN-Korea relations over the past three decades. Thirty years ago when the world was on the verge of a new international order at the end of the Cold War, ASEAN and Korea tied the knot as sectoral dialogue partners. In 1989, bilateral trade volume was a mere $8.2 billion. Since then, however, this figure has increased exponentially.
Yet for Indonesia and the nine other member states of ASEAN, Japan and South Korea are strategic economic and trading partners. It will not just be disturbing, but even annoying if Japan and South Korea cannot control their temper and continue to attack each other. #commentary
