The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was established on 8 August 1967, base to Bangkok Declaration. Historically, before the era of strengthening cooperation between south-east Asian countries, relation in this region was not as good as what we gain nowadays. There are many conflict of interest exist between states in south-east Asia. For instances, conflicts of state border (Indonesia-Malaysia, Philippines-Malaysia, Malaysia-Thailand), humanitarian conflicts (Vietnam and Myanmar), and also security crisis, fulfilling day-to-day political relation. For that reason, the five states (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand) initiated to shape the concept of cooperation that make inter-state relation in region going well and high-trusted. Through many mechanism and negotiation in Bangkok (August 1967), the five states finally make a deal with the framework of cooperation by declaring legal framework named as
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