| The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has established high level Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC). At the Meeting in Bangkok, January 8, 2004, a statement included cyber crime was recognized and the need for an effective legal cooperation to enhance the fight against transnational crime.
A Plan of Action to Implement the Joint Declaration on ASEAN-China Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity, was signed on October 8, 2003, in Bali, Indonesia. ASEAN and China will pursue the following joint actions and measures:
2.5.7. Formulate cooperative and emergency response procedures for purposes of maintaining and enhancing cybersecurity, and preventing and combating cybercrime.
In a statement from ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) on July 2006 it was emphasized that:
“Believing that an effective fight against cyberattacks and terrorist misuse of cyberspace requires increased, rapid and well functioning legal and other forms of cooperation.
ARF participating states and organization endeavour to enact, if they have not yet done so, and implement cybercrime and cybersecurity laws in accordance with their national conditions and by referring to relevant international instruments and recommendations/guidelines for the prevention, detection, reduction, and mitigation of attacks to which they are party, including the ten recommendations in the UN General Assembly Resolution 55/63 on Combating the Criminal Misuse of Information Technologies.
ARF participating countries and organization acknowledge the importance of a national framework for cooperation and collaboration in addressing criminal, including terrorist, misuse of cyber space and encourage the formulation of such a framework that may include…”
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