Recognising the impending threats of arms smuggling, ASEAN included arms smuggling as one of ten areas of cooperation of the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC). Since its establishment in 2017, the SOMTC Working Group on Arms Smuggling serves as a platform to exchange information to enhance collective efforts in addressing this crime. The issue of arms smuggling is also touched upon in the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) as part of the cooperation on Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) and Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (NPD).