Asian values
They champion an alternative
model of domestic governance and development. This was in part of defensive
response to the proclamation of the New World Order by United States president
George Bush in the aftermath of the Cold War. The United State appeared to be
declaring, in hegemonic fashion, the triumph of Western values, such as
democracy, human rights, and market, economics. The ASEAN response was also, in
part, presented as a bulwark against the undesirable social problems rife in
permissive Western societies, which, marked by excessive individualism and
contentiousness, are viewed as products of excessive freedom unchecked by a
strong sense of civic responsibility. Asian values as disciplined,
group-oriented rather than atomized, and valuing duty to the to community over
the assertion of rights. It seeks to identify the obstacles to the development
of human rights protection in Southeast Asia, and it suggests what the author
considers to be the best strategies for constructing the most effective and realistic
approach to promoting human rights on that context. The
goal of promoting human rights and fundamental freedom.
Design to promote preventive
diplomacy and build confidence among Asia- Pacific states. Trade, economics growth,
liberalization, and regional security remained priorities. Stance
against racism and racist governments.Changed of human rights abuses,
pointing out that no state is guiltless in this respect such as the failure to
prevent human rights violations. Asian values are invoked offensively
and positively as a distinctive approach to human development and
state-community –individual relations that is superior to the individualistic,
rights-orient Western liberal democracies, typified by moral decay, social
dysfunction, and disrespect for public authority. Human rights is the language of
the oppressed and marginalized. Culture value are esentilization
is ignore the fact that culture are not static but in flux, given the
influences of international capitalism, globalism, industrialization, and emerge
of global culture of human rights within modern states. The economic success in the
certain East Asian countries that industrialization before they democratized.
Asian issues:
Human rights in formal meetings,
albeit stressing that human rights are contingent upon the distinct economic
and cultural conditions of the region. Elimination
of poverty, hunger, diseases, illiteracy, intensive cooperation in economic and
social development, promoting of social justice, and the improvement of the
living standards. Cambodia issue was a deviation
from the original plan to focus exclusively on economic matters. Refugees problem were constantly
on the ASEAN agenda after the late 1970s. Move toward the higher plane of
political and economic cooperation to secure regional peace and prosperity
include matters like environmental protection and sustainable development, the
control of HIV, and measure against drug trafficking.
Against genocidal policies,
extrajudicial killing, and torture.
