It is said that every multination’s organization has its urgent purpose, such as NATO with defense alliance program, Organization of Africa Unity (OAU) with economic independence program, or European Union (EU) with sharing profit program, but it is difficult to mention what is the main program of ASEAN today.
Since all of our leaders agreed that ASEAN was oriented on peace programs, nor in politics or army defense, ASEAN is focusing on cultural sharing, religious dialog, and improvement of technology. Today in 2009, an environmental sphere programs is added as a portion of Global Warming.
In the era of our mothers, there ASEAN students of natural science and technology got scholarships from Philippines and Singapore to do researches thing. After that, ASEAN religious leaders went from country to country speaking the religion as a mosaic of peace. Each year, in each ASEAN country, there was a huge cultural festival which performed dances, music, and cultural stand of ASEAN.
As a new generation, frankly I am disappointed because today there is a lack of cooperative programs between ASEAN countries, especially in educational needs. As a proof, ASEAN students are more interested of searching scholarships in Europe (Erasmus Mundus or Erasmus+), Australia (AUSAID), or America (USAID). Even the bureau of ASEAN in Jakarta, Indonesia has lack of festivals. I noticed that ASEAN’s education policy is not the number one anymore. ASEAN is more occupied with economic interest. As I read in magazines, cooperative programs are oriented in establishment of franchises (such as restaurants), building the hotels, and trade of naval equipments. All those programs are located under the ASEAN blueprint to avoid the bureaucracy, but all is about business.
Method of analysis
To analyze the problem that ASEAN having on interference policy, this paper citing the criticism from Plato against democracy that living in a democratic regime to give life each person to define himself, no one else has the right to tell us to live a certain way, each person is free to hold opinions and everyone is entitled to run the life he coveted.Deeper Plato's view that a democratic regime is a regime of market bazaar of Constitutions or laws. All kinds of rules used freely because it is considered suitable and fun all concerned to it, but with the use of a wide rules described in order of lawlessness.
In line with Plato, French sociologist, Alain Touraine, in his book Critique de la Modernité, has been critizing the concept of modernism while people is too much using the Internet by abandoning the values of being real and being honest. Also, he criticizes the Human Rights as a tool of human liberty without boundaries, while in morality, the respect itself depends on the social and political context, so it is a need to not to generalize Human Rights in close-minded perspectives just to find justification of wrong values.
Analysis
Before coming to the deeper analysis, I want to state that transferring knowledge and information of results of the researchs, within or outside MEA, is already a challenging action for ASEAN, because it means ASEAN threatens itself by sharing important of its capital and modality.
      By connecting of what Plato and Tourraine said about Democracy and Modernity, MEA itself is half-Democracy in the ASEAN defense system, because MEA has a role to make business more personal among ASEAN people and is designed to connect ASEAN people more closer than before. Because of it is tended to be more closer than before, so that Democracy to reject such sharing of knowlede and information of researchs results, is probably hard to do. While a country of ASEAN rejects sharing sharing of knowlede and information of researchs results of MEA, this country could be rejected by other countries, and then have big risk of its foreign relation economy.
      In the condition of sharing of knowledge and information of researchs resultsin MEA system, we must remember that each knowledge and information of research result has copyright, related to the respect of human rights (of the authors). In 2009, ASEAN has given institutional recognition to human rights, at its 15th summit held in Thailand in 2009 and the ASEAN inaugurated the ASEAN Intergovernmental Human Rights Commission (Baiq, p.9)