ASEAN Vision and Strategic Planning and Future Blueprint

List of Key Chapter Titles

1. Kuala Lumpur Declaration: ASEAN 2045: Our Shared Future
2. ASEAN Community Vision 2045: A Resilient, Innovative, Dynamic, and People-Centered ASEAN
3. ASEAN Political-Security Community Strategic Plan
4. ASEAN Economic Community Strategic Plan 2026-2030
5. ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Strategic Plan
6. ASEAN Connectivity Strategic Plan
7. ASEAN Political-Security Community Strategic Goals and Measures (Including Nine Strategic Goals)
8. ASEAN Economic Community Strategic Goals and Measures (Including Six Strategic Goals)
9. ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community Strategic Goals and Measures (Including Twelve Strategic Goals)
10. ASEAN Connectivity Strategic Goals and Measures (Including Six Strategic Goals)
11. Implementation and Review Mechanism
12. List of Abbreviations

Document Introduction

This report is the full version of the official strategic document "ASEAN 2045: Our Shared Future," officially released by the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia, in May 2025. As a continuation and upgrade of the ASEAN 2025 Vision ("Forging Ahead"), the document formally establishes a long-term development blueprint for the ASEAN Community towards 2045, aiming to build ASEAN into a "resilient, innovative, dynamic, and people-centered" community and a growth center in the Indo-Pacific region. The document was formally adopted by the leaders of the ten ASEAN member states at the 46th ASEAN Summit held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 26, 2025, and holds the highest regional policy guidance authority.

The main structure of the report is clear, consisting of an overarching "Kuala Lumpur Declaration" and four pillar strategic planning documents. The "Kuala Lumpur Declaration" reaffirms common principles based on the ASEAN Charter, the UN Charter, and international law, and formally adopts the "ASEAN Community Vision 2045" and its four strategic plans. The subsequent four strategic planning documents correspond respectively to the three pillars of the ASEAN Community—the ASEAN Political-Security Community (APSC), the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC)—and the cross-pillar area of Connectivity. Each plan contains detailed strategic objectives, specific goals, and strategic measures.

In the political-security domain, the plan sets nine strategic goals, with the core focus on maintaining a rules-based regional order and ASEAN centrality. Specific measures include: adhering to the fundamental principles of the ASEAN Charter and international law; strengthening the effectiveness of ASEAN-led mechanisms (such as the ASEAN Regional Forum, ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting and its Plus meetings, East Asia Summit, etc.); presenting a common ASEAN stance on regional and global issues; addressing traditional and non-traditional security challenges (including terrorism, transnational crime, cybersecurity, maritime security, etc.); promoting the full entry into force of the Southeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty; committing to the peaceful resolution of disputes in accordance with international law, including the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, with particular emphasis on the full and effective implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea and the early conclusion of an effective and substantive Code of Conduct in the South China Sea; implementing the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific through concrete projects; and promoting inclusivity, and protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms.

In the economic domain, the 2026-2030 Strategic Plan, as the first five-year implementation cycle, focuses on six strategic goals aimed at making ASEAN the world's fourth-largest economy. The plan elaborates on specific pathways for building an integrated single market and production base, promoting a green and sustainable economic transformation, strengthening cooperation across economic sectors to address emerging trends, enhancing the "Global ASEAN" agenda, improving economic resilience and crisis response capabilities, and ensuring inclusive and participatory growth. The document pays special attention to key issues such as digital and technological transformation, supply chain resilience, sustainable finance, and the integration of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) into global value chains.

In the socio-cultural domain, the plan revolves around twelve strategic goals, with the core aim of improving people's quality of life, strengthening ASEAN identity, and ensuring inclusive development. Key measures include: building a people-centered, interconnected digital society; creating caring communities with special attention to vulnerable groups; optimizing the demographic dividend and developing high-quality education and labor forces; enhancing the health level of the entire population and the resilience of the public health system; strengthening the role of communities in sustainable development; building an adaptive ASEAN identity; comprehensively empowering women and youth; protecting cultural heritage and promoting cultural and creative industries; and advancing sustainable development through green and blue economies.

In the connectivity domain, the plan (2026-2035) proposes six strategic goals aimed at comprehensively strengthening physical, institutional, and people-to-people linkages within the region and with the outside world through six strategic areas: sustainable infrastructure, smart and sustainable urban development, digital innovation, seamless logistics and supply chains, excellent regulatory cooperation, and people-to-people exchanges. The plan emphasizes adopting a "whole-of-community" approach, aligning with the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific and sub-regional cooperation frameworks, and integrating resources and initiatives under the concept of "Connecting the Connectivities."

This document is not only the highest programmatic document for the ASEAN regional integration process over the next two decades but also provides an authoritative benchmark for external observers, partners, and researchers to understand ASEAN's strategic priorities, policy directions, and cooperation opportunities. Its content is detailed and its structure rigorous, reflecting ASEAN's collective ambition for unity, centrality, resilience, and sustainable growth in a complex geopolitical and economic environment. All analysis, forecasts, and policy recommendations must be strictly based on the framework and details presented in this official text.