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The upcoming ASEAN Economic Integration remains in our top agenda in both ASEAN
and AIPA. In the last AIPA General Assembly, we have agreed that the formation of ASEAN
Economic Community is the foundation for achieving the ideals of regional integration. In
order to support that foundation, we also agreed to notion that the harmonization of policies
among ASEAN countries should continue to be made.

The ASEAN charter explicitly stated that the ASEAN Economic Community can only be
achieved by full participation of all stakeholders. It is including state and non-state actors.
ERIA as an economic policy think-tank has provided a full commitment to support the ASEAN
Economic Integration.

We are really helped with the active contribution taken by ERIA. AIPA has received invaluable
insight provided by ERIA, through its deep analysis in symposium and other publications
published by the organization that support the realization of ASEAN economic community.
In the future, we see the need to fully utilize ERIA as a stakeholder for the ASEAN economic
community and to further support the work of parliament. AIPA and ERIA can work in
collecting best practices from members of AIPA and to provide policy recommendation in order
to realise the ASEAN economic integration and equitable economic development.

Another current collective good problem that we need to deal is about disasters. Disasters
and the related devastations have increased in the last decade. During 2005-2015 alone, over
700,000 people lost their lives. More than 1.4 million people were injured and approximately
23 million became homeless due to disasters. The world’s worry about disasters, more so due
to climate change which has aggravated to more than 1.5 billion in the last decade. Several
ASEAN countries and Japan are countries which are not immune to natural disaster. From 2004
to 2014 itself, Southeast Asia contributed to more than 50 percent of the total global disaster
fatalities, or 354,000 of the 700,000 deaths in disasters worldwide. The total economic loss was
US$91 billion.

In facing natural disaster threat, ASEAN had established a Committee on Disaster Management
(ACDM) and developed Standard Operating Procedure for Regional Standby Arrangements
and Coordination of Joint Disaster Relief and Emergency Response Operations (SASOP).
Nonetheless, we are of the view that the Sendai Framework adopted in the Third UN World
Conference this year has brought up three critical elements that were yet covered in previous
framework; such as building resilience, promoting local solutions and promoting inclusivity.
We see there is urgency to mainstream Sendai Framework into the ASEAN SASOP.

72 I Selected Speeches of the Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia