The ASEAN Foundation gathered 70 young ASEAN students to role play ASEAN officials at the First ASEAN Foundation Model ASEAN Meeting at Sunway University on 18-22 November —coinciding with the 27th ASEAN Summit and related meetings in Kuala Lumpur.
The ASEAN Model Meeting is an initiative of the ASEAN Foundation that brought these students who are competitively selected to role-play senior officials, Ministers and Leaders of ASEAN to gain insight into the working world of these persons and how regional agreements and cooperation are negotiated. These young delegates were assigned different nationalities to allow the opportunity to have a different perspective about other ASEAN Member States. This enables the participating students to not only better understand decisions that their national governments make, but how these decisions affect policies at the national and regional levels.
Elaine Tan, Executive Director of the ASEAN Foundation, said “this activity will raise ASEAN awareness among the young people, providing them an avenue for personal enrichment, as well as a better understanding of the benefits of ASEAN, the regional integration process, and their potential to contribute to the ASEAN Community.”
This event is organised in partnership with the Sunway University, supported by the ASEAN – U. S. Partnership for Good Governance, Equitable and Sustainable Development and Security (ASEAN – U. S. PROGRESS) facility based in Jakarta, Indonesia, the Government of the Philippines and Maybank Foundation in Malaysia.
The ASEAN Foundation is a non-profit ASEAN body that is committed to promote ASEAN awareness through people-to-people interaction and collaboration with ASEAN stakeholders to help ASEAN build a caring, cohesive, equitable, and peaceful ASEAN Community.
