JAKARTA, 23 April 2025 – The First ASEAN Digital Senior Officials’ Meeting and ASEAN Telecommunications Regulators’ Council (ADGSOM – ATRC) Leaders’ Retreat of 2025 took place on 22-23 April in Jakarta.
The two-day event was chaired by Thailand as the ADGSOM Chair for 2025. The meeting discussed the outcomes and follow-up actions from the 5th ASEAN Digital Ministers’ Meeting (ADGMIN) held on 13-17 January 2025 in Bangkok. Additionally, the 5th Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Anti-Online Scam (WG-AS) was held on the sidelines, to discuss ASEAN Member States’ (AMS) collective measures in tackling online scams in the region.
Under the theme of Thailand’s ADGMIN Chairmanship in 2025, “Secure, Innovative, Inclusive: Shaping ASEAN’s Digital Future” is essential to fully unlock the potential of ASEAN Digital Economy by harnessing the transformative power of artificial intelligence (AI) which requires multiple stakeholder’s collaboration including policy makers, private sector and the community towards shaping ASEAN’s Digital Future.
The meeting welcomed the proposal for a joint collaboration between ADGSOM and the ASEAN Foundation to organise the ASEAN Digital Forum 2026, which will be held alongside the 6th ADGMIN in early 2026 in Viet Nam. The meeting also welcomed the proposal to develop the ASEAN Digital Outlook 2025 under ASEAN Foundation’s AI ready ASEAN initiative, supported by Google.org. This initiative shall support effective long-term planning across member states, fostering sustained growth and competitiveness in the digital era, and shall strengthen public-private partnerships for knowledge exchange, policy alignment, and the coordination of digital initiatives for alignment with global digital trends and standards.
The meeting welcomed the successful implementation of the ASEAN Digital Masterplan 2025 (ADM2025), noting that 100% of its Enabling Actions (EAs) had been initiated as of April 2025. As ADM2025 approaches its conclusion, the meeting reaffirmed the importance of sustaining the region’s digital transformation momentum through the upcoming ASEAN Digital Masterplan 2030 (ADM2030).
ADM2030 will serve as a visionary framework that will set the pace for ASEAN’s digital future over the next 5 years. In this regard, Viet Nam has been entrusted to lead the development of ADM2030 in 2025, targeted for endorsement at the 6th ADGMIN in early 2026.
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Photos Credit: Biro Humas Kementerian Komunikasi dan Digital
