Indonesia faces three challenges as ASEAN’s next chair

JAKARTA — As Indonesia prepares to imagine the chairmanship of ASEAN in 2023, it’s puzzling out how greatest to deal with three doubtlessly divisive diplomatic challenges — the governance scenario in Myanmar, which suffered a army takeover practically two years in the past; territorial disputes with China within the South China Sea; and East Timor’s utility to affix the bloc.

At ASEAN conferences subsequent yr, Indonesia intends to maintain the first concentrate on increasing blocwide financial cooperation. Jakarta additionally will endeavor to construct consensuses on meals and vitality safety, a plan to rebuild severed provide chains and different points.