The groundbreaking ceremony for the brand new constructing of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, Secretariat took place in early January as Jakarta looks to reaffirm its position because the bloc’s diplomatic capital.
The recent secretariat could have two 16-story towers, designed based on the green constructing concept and decorated with designs derived from Betawi culture. Like the present secretariat, it’ll even be positioned in South Jakarta.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Arrmanatha Nasirs said the constructing would cost around $37 million and was a part of Indonesia’s contribution to further strengthen the ASEAN secretariat. He stressed that because the host country, Indonesia was answerable for providing the power and the present facility was not adequate.
The current ASEAN Secretariat was established in 1981.
Since the last months of 2017, demolition works on certainly one of the old buildings have been ongoing with a purpose to prepare for the long-awaited construction of a brand new facility. The current constructing is sort of forty years old and has turn into much too small for the over 300 staff and plenty of each day ASEAN meetings. Therefore, a brand new headquarters is being built next to the present constructing, which also houses SHARE PMO, and ultimately each buildings will probably be connected to form one ASEAN Secretariat complex.
