Under the ambit of the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Drug Matters (AMMD), cooperation on illicit drugs focuses on five main areas: preventive education, law enforcement, treatment and rehabilitation, research and alternative development. These main areas were also identified and included in the ASEAN Work Plan on Securing Communities Against Illicit Drugs 2016-2025.

Under the oversight of the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC), the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC) is also complementing the AMMD in combatting illicit drugs. The SOMTC focuses its cooperation on the exchange of information and knowledge, including on relevant laws and regulations of the ASEAN Member States; capacity building activities for law enforcement officials and promotion of cooperation with external partners.

Illicit drugs has also been identified as one of the priority areas of cooperation under the ambit of the ARF Inter-Sessional Meeting on Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime. For more information on the ARF’s work on this issue, please visit the ARF website at http://aseanregionalforum.asean.org