JAKARTA: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) secretariat will continue to be based in this city. This is despite the decision of the Indonesian government to move the nation’s capital to Kalimantan by 2024. “We would like to see what we have in New York with the United Nations — that the Asean Secretariat will be the anchor for the Asean capital in Jakarta.”With 93 ambassadors accredited to Asean, 74 of them based in Jakarta, Lim said Jakarta would remain the diplomatic capital of the 10-member bloc. “We believe that Jakarta will be the capital of Asean,” said the Bruneian diplomat who assumed office last year. The new capital would act as the centre of government, he had said, while Jakarta would remain the country’s business and economic centre.

Source: New Strait Times October 14, 2019 07:07 UTC