This article attempts to analyze ASEAN’s response to maritime security cooperation. As an organization in Southeast Asia, ASEAN needs to establish good maritime cooperation to protect the various interests of the members and the busy SLOCs as well. The author uses cooperative security to analyze ASEAN maritime security cooperation and identifies sources of cooperative maritime security to explain their willingness to join or not to join a cooperation agreement. This article shows that there is an overlap of cooperation as the result of different in terms of prioritization, capability, and especially perspective regarding the absolute and collective gain that leads to ineffective cooperation. In addition, there are no legally binding frameworks as an outcome from formed cooperation beside a series of dialogues between ASEAN members. But, although each country has different priorities, capability, interest and perspectives, the Cooperative security may become a bridge to overcome the difference. It is possible as the ASEAN members keep showing their willingness to overcome maritime issue by doing bilateral, trilateral, and multilateral cooperation.
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The maritime environment has become a contested zone by many countries in the world. Despite being an arena for competition, it also provides space for cooperation. This article will show how maritime security concerns influence state decision to work jointly particularly in Southeast Asia Region that transform their focus from low-political issue to maritime security. The author argues that ASEAN maritime security cooperation is needed due to the significant change in political constellation that mainly related to maritime security both traditional and non-traditional threats. Problems such as maritime terrorism, armed robbery, piracy, and illegal trade activities grow rapidly and affect the international shipping security such as Malacca, Singapore and Lombok Strait. Based on the data analysis, ASEAN should establish a comprehensive model of cooperation on combatting various non-traditional crimes in its Region. Leadership and trust are essential to establish stronger maritime security cooperation related to the security of sea routes in the Southeast Asian Region.
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