Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Against the backdrop of changing global dynamics and India’s transformative transition, the India-ASEAN alliance emerges as a formidable force.

Since the formation of the Regional Dialogue Partners in 1992, this country has become a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 2022 and is led by the Act East policy, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with trade, culture, security, interdependent connectivity and cooperation.

Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Jakarta amid the G20 summit demonstrates his commitment to ASEAN and the Indo-Pacific outlook, Maheep, a foreign policy analyst, was quoted as saying. khalsavox.comMonday (04/9/2023).

As relations deepen in the areas of trade, defense, cultural exchanges and geopolitical strategy, the ASEAN-India partnership strengthens, Maheep said, as the shared vision of encouraging mutual growth in the Global dynamics will continue to develop.

He also said that amid changes in the global order and the transformative political-economic transition led by India, ASEAN-India relations have emerged as a force to reckon with.

The disintegration of the former Soviet Union in 1991 marked the height of the Cold War, coinciding with India’s transition from a mixed economy to the realm of liberalization, privatization and globalization.

This evolving context opens a new chapter in international affairs by laying the foundation for the development of relations between ASEAN and India.

As the world redefines itself and India changes its identity, the convergence of these changes paves the way for partnerships that will shape regional dynamics and global cooperation.

India’s formal engagement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) began in 1992 as a regional dialogue partner, and this relationship continued to strengthen and ultimately culminated to the India-ASEAN Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 1992.

Scheduled for September 6-7, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Jakarta to attend the India-ASEAN and East Asia summit, even amid his commitment to the G20 summit on September 9-10, Maheep said as this not only symbolized an extraordinary gesture, but also underlined India’s close ties with ASEAN.

This visit reaffirms ASEAN’s central role in India’s foreign policy vision, particularly as it relates to the Indo-Pacific, Southeast Asia and East Asia.