Pressure is increasing on Indonesia to take measures against Myanmar

Indonesia has assumed the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations-ASEAN for 2023. This duty of ASEAN is performed by the member states on a rotating basis.

With this mandate, pressure is mounting on Jakarta to take appropriate action against the military of Myanmar, a member of the alliance. Myanmar's military is known as the Tatmadaw. The Myanmar military seized power from an elected government two years ago.

Young Hee

• Yang Hee said, 'I think we should continue to increase the pressure on the UN Security Council for failure. He openly blamed China and Russia for the failure of the Security Council, saying, "It's really sad."

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He said, now he will submit his report to the Jat Singh Human Rights Council. In 2014, the United Nations put Yang Hee Lee in charge of the situation in Myanmar. But Myanmar has not yet allowed him to enter the country. As a result, he was forced to collect information from Rohingyas who fled Bangladesh and other sources.

Ross Milosevic, director of Phnom Penh-based Risk Analysis and Resources International, said Myanmar has sadly tested the nine remaining ASEAN countries and their initiatives since the February 1, 2021 coup. And, Brunei and Cambodia, two of the smaller countries spearheading the coalition's peace initiative, are desperate.

He said ASEAN's policy has always been against interference. However, problems mean problems. And that plan was a disaster. I don't think ASEAN has handled the situation properly.

Charles Santiago

• Charles Santiago of the ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights group agreed. He said there was no dialogue based on consensus and after two years the plan was shelved for a long time. It's over. It has been buried.

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He said his report would propose the creation of an ad hoc international tribunal backed by the United Nations to bring effective punishment against those responsible for the Rohingya genocide, following the precedents of the courts set up to prosecute atrocities in Sierra Leone, Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
He proposed that the tribunal complement the ICJ and ICC.