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Author: S. Nanthini
Published by: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Date: 29 September 2025
Southeast Asia has been noted time and time again as one of the world’s most disaster-prone regions. While cooperation in disaster management in the region dates back to the 1970s, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami proved to be a turning point for the region. Since then, ASEAN’s disaster management architecture has evolved significantly, as evident by the signing of the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER), along with the consistent development of various work programmes under AADMER, the formulation of the ASEAN Disaster Resilience Outlook (ADRO), and the issuing of various declarations such as the ASEAN Declaration on One ASEAN One Response: ASEAN Responding to Disasters as One in the Region and Outside the Region and the more recent Kuala Lumpur Declaration on ASEAN 2045: Our Shared Future.
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