The 1st Asia-Euro Policy Forum wil be held on June 7th and 8th 2017 in Jakarta. It has be jointly organized by the Japan Foundation Asia center and GRIPS ALLIANCE (Japan), the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS, Indonesia) and the EHESS (France). 

Asia-Euro Policy Dialogue (AEPD) is a global policy research project, which aims to encourage exchanges among ASEAN countries, Europe and Japan on Southeast Asia’s current reality and beyond. This project attempts to increase awareness on the political and economic significance of Southeast Asia in the international community and also to further operationalize the policy lessons for the sake of ASEAN countries by means of sharing such experiences and knowledges that Europe and Japan has gained in the past. AEPD aims to provide the new directions for the policy research and the policy proposal on the future of Southeast Asia.

The theme of the 1st Forum is “Where does ASEAN stand and where will it go: the state and future of ASEAN and responses of external partners”. The discussion will cover the following five policy areas.

1. Current Strategic Reality in East Asia: Shifting Power Balance
2. ASEAN in New Geo-political Reality: Perspectives of ASEAN, Europe and Japan
3. Impact of Economic Development on Politics and Society
4. ASEAN’s Economic Growth in the Globalizing World
5. Southeast Asia in Long-term Perspective