The idea of a Southeast Asian Community as opposed to a mere organization has adorned regional leader’s speeches for a long time, but in recent years materializing this concept has taken on a new sense of urgency. The ten ASEAN member countries (Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar) have all shown commitment to advancing integration within the ASEAN community along the three integration axes or blueprints agreed upon at the summits in Bali (2003) and Cebu (2007), namely political and security; economic; and socio-cultural.
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