Regional Splits on Myanmar Are Becoming More Apparent.

Further, fellow ASEAN countries could see Indonesia's Myanmar diplomacy as idealistic unilateralism, which could then widen existing fissures within the bloc and eventually, dilute its centrality. Jokowi, during the latest summit, said that the "issue of Myanmar must not hinder the acceleration of ASEAN community building because community building is awaited by the people of ASEAN." In the latest ASEAN summit's 25-page "Chairman's Statement", the Myanmar crisis triggered by the coup and the ASEAN's Five-Point Consensus were mentioned in the very last point, below the Russia-Ukraine war. From May 9 to 11, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) convened in the stunning fishing town of Labuan Bajo in the eastern Indonesian region of Nusa Tenggara for its 42nd summit. [Extracted from the article]