The Jakarta Post-July 21, 2022

ASEAN, where are your manners? Timor Leste has met all the requirements and much more to be a member, and yet the regional grouping has sat on its application for over 11 years. The ASEAN way is notorious for being slow, but there is no more reason to delay in admitting the young nation which by geographical definition falls within Southeast Asia.

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