The ASEAN Regional Mine Action Center (ARMAC) was honoured to participate in the 10th Forum of Entities Associated with ASEAN, held at the ASEAN Headquarters/ASEAN Secretariat

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20 May
“Navigating Our Future, Together” — the theme of this year’s 10th Forum of Entities Associated with ASEAN captured exactly what the room felt like: a region thinking out loud about how to build ASEAN Community Vision 2045 together, through action that reaches people.
The Forum brought together ASEAN entities, centres of excellence, and regional partners — a rare moment to compare notes on how each contributes across the Political-Security, Economic, Socio-Cultural, and Connectivity pillars.
ARMAC was proud to take part in the panel “From Vision to Action: Contribution of ASEAN Entities in Advancing Community Building in Achieving ASEAN 2045,” moderated by H.E. Nararya S. Soeprapto, Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for ASEAN Community and Corporate Affairs. Representing the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC) pillar alongside Mr. Raymund Quilop from the APSC Analysis & Monitoring Division of the ASEAN Secretariat, ARMAC spoke to something it believes deeply: humanitarian mine action sits at the heart of ASEAN’s human security agenda — and at the heart of resilience, regional cooperation, and inclusive recovery.
ARMAC shared the work that defines the Centre today — victim assistance, Explosive Ordnance Risk Education (EORE), regional capacity development, standards, information management, research and knowledge-sharing, and South–South cooperation. ARMAC spoke with real pride about the ASEAN Regional Victim Assistance Network (VAN) and the Victim Assistance Management Information System (VAMIS) — among the first regional victim assistance information-sharing platforms in ASEAN, designed to strengthen coordination, institutional learning, and people-centred support for the communities who need it most.
The conversation kept returning to a truth this region knows well: partnership matters. South–South cooperation matters. The experiences, lessons, and approaches that Member States share with one another are what carry resilience, recovery, and sustainable peace forward across the region.
Humanitarian mine action is about clearing explosive hazards — but it is also about something larger. It is about giving communities back their land, their confidence, their dignity, and their right to imagine a future on their own terms.
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