Office of the Special Envoy Engagements with Myanmar Stakeholders Jakarta, 20-22 November 2023

Ministry of foreign Affairs of Republic of Indonesia
Friday, 24/November/2023

Jakarta (22/11) – Continuing the process undertaken as the ASEAN Chair 2023, the Office of the Special Envoy on Myanmar has organised a meeting attended by major stakeholders of Myanmar to push forward the implementation of the Five-Point Consensus (5PC) and work towards the convening of inclusive dialogues for a comprehensive and durable political solution to the crisis in Myanmar.

Indonesian Foreign Minister: The Rohingya Cry in Silence, We Must Not Remain Silent

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
Friday, 22/September/2023 

 

New York, USA - "The fate of the Rohingya community remains unclear. The global situation and domestic conditions in Myanmar make this issue more complex and difficult. Strong political commitment to resolve this issue is inevitable," said Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi at a Side Event meeting on Rohingya entitled "Have they Forgotten Us? Ensuring Continued Global Solidarity with the Rohingya of Myanmar" on the sidelines of the High Level Week of the 78th UN General Assembly Session (21/9).

PM for redouble global support to end Rohingya crisis

daily Sun
BSS, New York
23rd September, 2023

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the world community, particularly the ASEAN member states, to redouble their collective efforts to repatriate Rohingyas to their homeland in Myanmar side by side with executing the resolutions of security council and general assembly to ensure a sustainable solution to the crisis.

Bangladesh asks ASEAN to "carry" Rohingya

KOMPAS
FX LAKSANA AGUNG SAPUTRA DARI NEW YORK, AS
23 September 2023 

The fate of the Rohingya ethnic group who were forced to flee Myanmar in 2017 is unclear. The issue is getting deeper and deeper with various recent dynamics. 

KOMPAS/FX LAKSANA AGUNG SAPUTRA

From left to right, Director General of the International Organization for Migration, Antonio Vitorino, President of Timor Leste, Jose Ramos-Horta, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, and Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim AA Khan KC. The meeting discussed the Rohingya issue which was held during the High Level Week of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States, on Thursday (21/9/2023).

NEW YORK, KOMPAS - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged ASEAN to continue prioritizing the Rohingya issue as a significant regional agenda. She encouraged ASEAN to increase efforts to build trust in Myanmar, so that Rohingya ethnic groups could return to their homeland with dignity.

Mobilizing Support for the Rohingya Crisis: Malaysia’s Call to OIC and ASEAN

BNN
By Asim Khan
2023 September 20  

Mobilizing Support for the Rohingya Crisis: Malaysia's Call to OIC and ASEAN

Malaysia Advocates for Rohingya Assistance

Malaysia has called upon the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for a united front in addressing the Rohingya crisis. The appeal was made by Malaysian Foreign Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir, who expressed the urgency for the two organizations to call for a de-escalation of violence in Myanmar, particularly from its military authorities. The call was made during an OIC meeting held concurrently with the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. 

 

Malaysia calls for OIC-ASEAN collaboration to resolve Rohingya issue

theSundaily
20-09- 2023 

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In making the call, Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir said both OIC and ASEAN should ask for de-escalation and cessation of violence, especially by the military authorities in Myanmar.

NEW YORK: Malaysia has called on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to collaborate with ASEAN to resolve the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.

Malaysia calls for OIC-Asean collaboration to resolve Rohingya issue

malaymail
Wednesday, 20 Sep 2023 

A Rohingya refugee walks at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. — Reuters pic

 

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NEW YORK, Sept 20 ― Malaysia has called on the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to collaborate with Asean to resolve the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.

In making the call, Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Zambry Abd Kadir said both OIC and Asean should ask for de-escalation and cessation of violence, especially by the military authorities in Myanmar.

ASEAN completes 11 priority economic deliverables, MITI to continue championing Malaysian exporters’ interests

theSundaily
10-09- 2023 

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KUALA LUMPUR: ASEAN has completed 11 out of 16 Priority Economic Deliverables (PEDs) under Indonesia’s chairmanship, while five out of seven PEDs under the purview of ASEAN Economic Ministers have been completed, according to the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI).

ASEAN Sleepwalking Into Perpetual Limbo – Analysis

eurasiareview
By Collins Chong Yew Keat
September 9, 2023 

The 43rd ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in Jakarta are again a manifestation of distinct power plays and indifference in facing new threats and urgency of risks. This state of inescapable loop is interwoven with conflicting individual and collective interests and strategic calculations, denting any aspired efficacy of the scramble to elevate conflict prevention mechanisms.

JFM calls on other ASEAN members to refuse to attend air force meeting following Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines

JUSTIC FOR MYANMAR
September 8, 2023

MEDIA PRESS

Justice For Myanmar calls on other ASEAN members to follow Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines in refusing to attend the upcoming ASEAN Air Chiefs’ Conference (AACC), heeding the outcry from Myanmar and international civil society.

We call on ASEAN members to bar the illegal junta from all ASEAN defence activities, and failing that, to refuse to attend activities in which the junta participates.

ရိုဟင်ဂျာအရေး နည်းလမ်းရှာဖို့ နိုင်ငံတကာကို ဘင်္ဂလား ဒေ့ရှ် တိုက်တွန်း

RFA
RFA Burmese
2023.09.07

၂၀၁၇ ခုနှစ် အောက်တိုဘာ ၉ ရက်နေ့က ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံကို ထွက်ပြေးခိုလှုံလာကြသည့် ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မှ ရိုဟင်ဂျာဒုက္ခသည်များ။ AFP

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံမှာ ခိုလှုံနေတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာတွေအရေး ဖြေရှင်းနိုင်အောင် ရေရှည်ခံတဲ့ နည်းလမ်းရှာ ဖွေဖို့ နိုင်ငံတကာအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် သမ္မတ မိုဟာမက် ရှာဟာဘူဒင်က ပြောလိုက်ပါ တယ်။

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ၊ ဂျကာတာမြို့မှာ စက်တင်ဘာ ၇ ရက်က ကျင်းပတဲ့ အာဆီယံထိပ်သီးညီလာခံမှာ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် သမ္မတ မိုဟာမက် ရှာဟာဘူဒင်က ပြောလိုက်တာပါ။

ရိုဟင်ဂျာနေရပ်ပြန်နိုင်ရေး အကူအညီပေးကြဖို့ နိုင်ငံတကာ ကို ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်တိုက်တွန်း

VOA
ဗွီအိုအေ (မြန်မာပိုင်း)
၀၇ စက်တင်ဘာ၊ ၂၀၂၃ 

အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ ဂျာကာတာမြို့မှာကျင်းပတဲ့ ၄၃ ကြိမ်မြောက် အာဆီယံထိပ်သီးအစည်းအဝေးအတွင်း တက်ရောက်လာတဲ့ ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံ သမ္မတ Mohammad Shahabuddin (စက်တင်ဘာ ၇၊ ၂၀၂၃)

  

ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံကို ရောက်နေတဲ့ ရိုဟင်ဂျာ ဒုက္ခသည်တွေ နေရပ်ပြန်နိုင်ရေးနဲ့ ဒုက္ခသည် အကျပ် အတည်းကို ဖြေရှင်းရေးမှာ နိုင်ငံတကာက ဝိုင်းဝန်း ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်ပေးဖို့ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံသမ္မတ Mohammad Shahabuddin က အင်ဒိုနီးရှားနိုင်ငံ ဂျကာတာမြို့မှာကျင်းပနေတဲ့ အာဆီယံ ထိပ်သီး အစည်းအဝေးမှာ ဒီကနေ့ ပြောဆိုသွားပါဝယ်။

Rohingya crisis may destabilise the region

Bangladesh Post
By Diplomatic Correspondent
Published : 02 Sep 2023 

Foreign Minister of Bangladesh Dr. A K Abdul Momen said that Rohingya crisis has the potential to destabilize the whole region unless the international community intensifies their efforts to eventuate the sustainable repatriation of the 1.2 million forcibly displaced Rohingyas, temporarily sheltered in Bangladesh, to their homeland Myanmar.

Good reason to tread carefully on Rohingya crisis

Jarkata Post
Tan Hui Yee

15.12.2016

 

 In this May 12 file photo, ethnic Rohingya sit at a refugee camp north of Sittwe, western Rakhine state, Myanmar. The long-persecuted Rohingya, many of whose families arrived in Myanmar generations ago, are treated as illegal migrants from neighboring Bangladesh and virtually excluded from the political process. (AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe )

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak broke with the spirit of Asean camaraderie by joining a recent march protesting against Myanmar's treatment of its beleaguered Rohingya, a Muslim minority group within the predominantly Buddhist country. "We want to tell Aung San Suu Kyi enough is enough!" he told the leader of the fellow Asean member, in reference to alleged atrocities some have condemned as "genocide".

Prospect of Rohingya repatriation and options for Bangladesh

Financial Express
A military analysis
Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman
Published :Aug 16, 2023

It has been six years since the massive exodus of Rohingyas took place in August 2017. Initially it was perceived that Myanmar cannot get away for very long with atrocities and crime against humanity of such magnitude. Despite regional power's support and some permanent members support in UN Security Council the condemnation of the act was overwhelming worldwide. Bangladesh's diplomatic initiative bilaterally as well as taking some members of ASEAN on board there was a memorandum of understanding signed in November 2017 between Bangladesh and Myanmar on Rohingya repatriation. In fact, that created hope among many about resolving the refugee issue quickly. To my appreciation the expulsion of Rohingyas from Rakhine was a systematic, well-orchestrated military operation. With my background I understood the drama of taking back the Rohingyas was also a portrayal of military operation. In fact, it is part of a deception plan and psychological warfare. Any military operation without political objective is a nonsensical waste of resources. Tatmadaw (Myanmar military) generals being a bunch of meritocratic cunning professionals would not waste resources.

ASEAN and its 50 years of failure in ending wars and genocides

Prothomalo
Maung Zarni
Updated: 16 Jul 2023,

A worker adjusts an ASEAN flag at a meeting hall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 28 October 2021.Reuters

Imagine John Lennon and his mates from Liverpool, strumming three acoustic guitars and leading the anti-war march in NYC or London, singing the iconic song "Give peace a chance," or Pete Seeger performing his "Where have all the flowers gone...." Who in their right mind would oppose peace or settling disputes over tea or cocktails?!! But Myanmar, my birthplace soaked in multiple violent and structural conflicts since the end of the WWII, has been a site not just of civil war and genocides - note the plural - but also of ceasefire talks, mediations, pro-peace protests, nationwide "peace dialogue" for more than 60 years.

အာဆီယံထိပ်သီးနှင့် လူသားချင်းစာနာမှု အကူအညီပေးရေး နောက်ဆက်တွဲ

Time Is Running out for Indonesia to Turn the Tide on Myanmar

THE DIPLOMAT
By David Hutt
April 25, 2023 

If Indonesia ends up the steward of ASEAN’s failure over Myanmar, Laos – the next chair – will be the gravedigger.

There are two ways of looking at Indonesia’s handling of the Myanmar crisis during its once-a-decade stint as ASEAN chair. Either Indonesia has been ASEAN chairman for only a few months so shouldn’t be blamed for having, so far, not come up with a meaningful policy on the Myanmar crisis. Or it only has eight months left as the chair and if it fails to devise a policy, the entire ASEAN-led response could crumble when it hands over the chairmanship next year to Laos, which is sure to steer the regional bloc down the path of greater acceptance of Myanmar’s military junta.

Upon the handover, Jakarta needs to have in place more than something resembling a coherent policy toward Myanmar. There needs to be a gift-wrapped policy on which there’s so much accord among member states that Laos cannot walk it back. ASEAN’s policy must be able to sustain itself even when in the hands of the disinterested.

ASEAN's deepening fissures over Myanmar test Indonesia's resolve

NIKKEI ASIA
GWEN ROBINSON,
Nikkei Asia editor-at-large
April 18, 2023 

ASEAN leaders including Myanmar's top general, Min Aung Hlaing, agreed in April 2021 on five steps toward resolving the crisis in the war-torn member state. Only one has been accomplished, and the bloc's unity and credibility are on the line. © Nikkei montage/Source photo by Reuters

Asia In

2023 chair works quietly to overcome two years of Five Point Consensus failure

PHNOM PENH -- Two years after they gathered in Jakarta to forge a consensus on the Myanmar crisis, Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders have rarely faced such disunity as they prepare for an uneasy summit in Indonesia from May 6 to 10.

In what one regional diplomat described as a "tail wagging the dog" dynamic, the spiraling violence in Myanmar under a savage military regime and determined resistance forces has opened diplomatic and political fault lines while undermining the 10-member group's international image. Other differences -- over attitudes to China and the U.S., or issues such as refugees and human rights -- are also threatening ASEAN unity like never before.

Rohingya are drowning at sea. Asia’s leaders are to blameAljazeera

Aljazeera
OPINION,Tun Khin
BROUK
Published On 26 Jan 2023

Leaders from Southeast and South Asia are acting both illegally and immorally by not helping Rohingya “boat people”.

FILE — Rohingya refugees fleeing a genocide in Myanmar and overcrowded conditions in Bangladesh camps, often spend months at sea, exploited by traffickers because governments in South and Southeast Asia won't let their boats land. This photo from June 25, 2020, shows Rohingya refugees in Lhokseumawe in North Aceh Regency [Chaideer Mahyuddin/AFP]

 

In early January, a boat with 185 Rohingya refugees washed ashore on the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province. They had spent weeks at sea in desperate conditions, fleeing cramped and overcrowded camps in Bangladesh in search of a better life. More than half were women and children.

Sadly, they are far from alone. Since November last year, at least three more boats have landed in Aceh after similarly perilous journeys, carrying hundreds of refugees, with at least 20 people dying at sea. According to UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), thousands of Rohingya, including women and children, resorted to perilous boat journeys in 2022.