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View all search resultsThe Myanmar coup and prolonged crisis will be the main topic of discussion at the ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting that opens on Oct. 27 in Jakarta, as the region's leaders look ahead to next month's summits and possible next steps.
A former United Nations rapporteur on Myanmar has called on Indonesia to take a bolder stance by siding with Myanmar's opposition government – and by extension, its long-suppressed Rohingya population.
The last day of the ASEAN ministerial meetings saw the usually noninterventionist bloc take a novel approach to resolving the Myanmar crisis, though soaring US-China tensions overshadowed the East Asia Summit meeting.
ASEAN has so far resisted official engagement with Myanmar’s shadow National Unity Government (NUG), which the junta calls “terrorists”, as well as other elements of the country’s opposition movement.
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