as of August 2019

Non-Traditional Security Joint Calendar 2019

Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level
January

Bandar Seri
11th ASEAN – Japan Counter-
1. 21-22 January Begawan, Brunei SOMTC Senior Officials
Terrorism Dialogue
Darussalam

ASEAN Defence Ministers’

Meeting Plus Experts’ Working
2. 22-24 January Guilin, China ADSOM-Plus Working Group
Group on Counter-Terrorism Initial
Planning Conference

Second Working Group Meeting Semarang,

3. 22-25 January ADSOM Working Group
on “Our Eyes” Indonesia

Bandar Seri
3rd ASEAN – Japan Cybercrime
4. 23-24 January Begawan, Brunei SOMTC Senior Officials
Dialogue
Darussalam

Special ASEAN Working Group on

the Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species of
5. 25 January Bangkok, Thailand AWG-CITES and WE Working Group
Wild Fauna and Flora and Wildlife
Enforcement (Special AWG-Cites
and WE)

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level
20th Meeting of the ASEAN
Working Group on Coastal and
Marine Environment (AWGCME),
6. 27–30 January Phuket, Thailand AWGCME Working Group
back-to-back with the
Coordination Meeting on Marine
Debris Action in ASEAN

3rd Open Ended Study Group on

Confidence-Building Measures to
7. 29 January Singapore ARF Working Group
Reduce the Risk of Conflict
Stemming from the Use of ICTs

Project Kick Off and Coordination

ASEAN Health
Meeting of the ASEAN Canada’s
Cluster 2 and
8. 29 – 30 January Global Partnership Programme on Bangkok, Thailand SOMHD
Project
the Mitigation of Biological Theats
Proponents
– Phase 2

February

Workshop to Review the Zero

Draft of the Declaration on the
Protection of Children from All
9. 1-2 February Bangkok, Thailand ACWC, SOMSWD Senior Officials
Forms of Online Abuse and
Exploitation in ASEAN Member
States

The 12th Meeting of ASEAN

Committee on the Implementation
of the ASEAN Declaration on the Chiang Rai,
10. 12-14 February ACMW Working Group
Protection and Promotion of the Thailand
Rights of Migrant Workers
(ACMW)

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level
4th Meeting of the ASEAN Task
11. 14-15 February Yangon, Myanmar ATFP Working Group
Force on Peatlands (4th ATFP)

ASEAN Defence Ministers’

Meeting Plus Experts’ Working
12. 17 February Yangon, Myanmar ADSOM-Plus Working Group
Group on Military Medicine Final
Planning Conference

2nd ASEAN Military Medicine

13. 18-20 February Yangon, Myanmar ADSOM-Plus Working Group
Conference

9th Meeting of ASEAN Technical

14. 20 February Working Group on Civil-Military Singapore ACDM, ADSOM Working Group
Coordination
ASEAN Defence Ministers
Meeting Plus Experts’ Working
15. 21 – 22 February Busan, Korea ADSOM-Plus Working Group
Group on Maritime Security Final
Planning Conference
13th ARF Experts and Eminent
16. 25-27 February Tokyo, Japan ARF EEPs
Persons Meeting (EEPs)

ARF Workshop on Enacting

UNCLOS and Other International Nha Trang, Viet
17. 26-27 February ARF Working Group
Instruments to Address Emerging Nam
Maritime Issues

1st 2019 ASEAN-Japan

18. 26-27 February Cybersecurity Working Group Hanoi, Viet Nam TELSOM+Japan Working Group
Meeting

27 February – 1 ASEAN-Australia Immigration Phnom Penh,

19. DGICM Working Group
March Interview Skills Workshop Cambodia

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level
March

SOMTC, ACWC,
ASEAN Cross-Sectoral
AICHR, ASLOM,
Consultative Meeting on the
20. 4-7 March Bohol, Philippines DGICM, SLOM, Working Group
Implementation of the Bohol TIP
SOM-ED, SOMHD,
Work Plan 2017-2020
SOMSWD

Sectoral Bodies
11th Coordinating Conference for ASEAN
under the ASEAN
21. 5 March the ASEAN Political-Security Secretariat, Senior Officials
Political-Security
Community (ASCCO) Jakarta, Indonesia
Community (APSC)

Special ASEAN Ministerial

22. 5 March Meeting on Marine Debris Bangkok, Thailand AMME Ministerial
(SAMM-MD)

7th ASEAN Drug Monitoring

23. 5-7 March Network (ADMN) Operational Bangkok, Thailand ASOD Working Group
Workshop
ASEAN Defence Ministers’
Meeting Plus Experts’ Working
24. 11 – 16 March Lucknow, India ADSOM-Plus Working Group
Group on Military Medicine Field
Training Exercise

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level

2nd ARF Workshop on Enhancing

Da Nang, Viet
25. 12-13 March Regional Maritime Law ARF Working Group
Nam
Enforcement Cooperation

11th ARF Inter-Sessional Meeting Da Nang, Viet

26. 14-15 March ARF Working Group
on Maritime Security (ISM on MS) Nam

14th ASEAN Defence Ministers’

Meeting Experts’ Working Group Hawai’i, the United
27. 19-21 March ADSOM-Plus Working Group
on Humanitarian Assistance and States
Disaster Relief

16th ARF Inter-Sessional Meeting

on Counter-Terrorism and
28. 21-22 March Bali, Indonesia ARF Working Group
Transnational Crime (ISM on
CTTC)

Special ASEAN Ministerial Chiang Mai,

29. 21 – 22 March AMAF Ministerial
Meeting on Illegal Wildlife Trade Thailand

4th Open Ended Study Group on

Confidence-Building Measures to
30. 26 March Singapore ARF Working Group
Reduce the Risk of Conflict
Stemming from the Use of ICTs

3rd Meeting of the ASEAN-

Tangerang,
26-27 March Australia Immigration Training DGICM Working Group
31. Indonesia
Committee

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level
The 20th Coordinating Board
Meeting of the ASEAN
Occupational Safety and Health Yogyakarta,
32. 26-28 March ASEAN-OSHNET Working Group
Network (ASEAN-OSHNET) and Indonesia
the 6th ASEAN-OSHNET
Conference

2nd ARF Inter-Sessional Meeting

on Security of and in the Use of
33. 28-29 March Information and Communication Singapore ARF Working Group
Technologies (ISM on ICTs
Security)

April

18th ARF Inter-Sessional Meeting Vientiane, Lao

34. 2-3 April ARF Working Group
on Disaster Relief (ISM on DR) PDR
Launch of Regional Guidelines
and Procedures to Address the
Needs of Victims of Trafficking in
Persons, Especially Women and
Children

35. 2-4 April and Bangkok, Thailand ACWC Senior Officials

Practitioners’ Workshop on the

Implementation of the ACWC
Regional Guidelines and
Procedures to Address the Need
of Victims of Trafficking in Persons
15th ASEAN Working Group on
Sandakan, Sabah,
36. 2–4 April CITES and Wildlife Enforcement AWG CITES and WE Working Group
Malaysia
(AWG CITES and WE) Meeting

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level
ASEAN-Australia Immigration Kuala Lumpur,
37. 2-5 April DGICM Working Group
Investigations Workshop Malaysia

14th Meeting of ASEAN Senior

Siem Reap,
38. 2 – 5 April Officials Meeting on Health SOMHD Senior Officials
Cambodia
Development

1st Cross-Sectoral and Cross-Pillar

Meeting on Developing the Draft
Work Plan to Implement the
39. 4-5 April ASEAN Plan of Action to Prevent Bali, Indonesia SOMTC Working Group
and Counter the Rise of
Radicalisation and Violent
Extremism 2018-2025
11th ARF Inter-Sessional Meeting
40. 8-9 April on Non-Proliferation and Bali, Indonesia ARF Working Group
Disarmament (ISM on NPD)

6th Intersessional Meeting of Bandar Seri

41. 9-10 April ASOD Working Group on Law Begawan, Brunei ASOD Working Group
Enforcement Darussalam

ASEAN Defence Ministers’

Meeting Experts’ Working Group Kuala Lumpur,
42. 10-11 April ADSOM-Plus Working Group
on Humanitarian Assistance and Malaysia
Disaster Relief

ARF Workshop on Preventive

43. 24-26 April Diplomacy and Early Warning: Dili, Timor-Leste ARF Working Group
Linkages for Conflict Resolution

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level
2nd SOMTC Working Group on
44. 25-26 April Illicit Trafficking of Wildlife and Bangkok, Thailand SOMTC Working Group
Timber
ASEAN Defence Ministers’
Meeting Experts’ Working Group
45. 25-26 April Bangkok, Thailand ADSOM-Plus Working Group
on Counter-Terrorism Initial
Planning Conference
11th Meeting of the Joint Task
ACDM, SOM,
Force on Humanitarian Assistance Mandalay,
46. 26 April ADSOM, SOMSWD, Senior Officials
and Disaster Relief (JTF on Myanmar
SOMHD
HADR)

ASEAN-United State Maritime

47. 26 April Exercise Initial Planning Singapore ADSOM Working Group
Conference

ASEAN Defence Ministers’

Meeting Experts’ Working Group Busan, ROK and
48. 29 April – 13 May ADSOM-Plus Working Group
on Maritime Security Field Singapore
Training Exercise

May

ARF Defence Officials’ Dialogue

(DOD)/ ARF Inter-Sessional
Support Group Meeting on Seoul, Republic of
49. 2-3 May ARF Working Group
Confidence-Building Measures Korea
and Preventive Diplomacy (ISG on
CBMs and PD)

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level
ARF Workshop on Marine Debris
Management for Sustainable Nha Trang, Viet
13-15 May ARF Working Group
Fisheries and Food Security in Nam
Southeast Asia

The 4th Meeting of the ASEAN

50. 14-15 May Working Group on Chemicals and Myanmar AWGCW Working Group
Waste
ASEAN Defence Ministers’
Meeting Experts’ Working Group
51. 15 May Singapore ADSOM-Plus Working Group
on Maritime Security – Maritime
Security Conference

16th ARF Security Policy Vice-Ministerial or

52. 23 May Thailand ARF
Conference (ASPC) equivalent

 14th Meeting of the Technical

Working Group on
Transboundary Haze Pollution
in the Mekong Sub-Region
(TWG Mekong) Siem Reap, Ministers and
53. 23-24 May TWG & MSC Mekong
 8th Meeting of the Sub- Cambodia Senior Officials
Regional Ministerial Steering
Committee on Transboundary
Haze Pollution in the Mekong
Sub-Region (MSC Mekong)
Workshop on Strengthening
Capacity and Coordination
Luang Prabang,
54. 27-28 May on Prevention and Investigation ACMW Working Group
Lao PDR
of Trafficking in Persons for
Forced Labour

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level

7th ASEAN Transport SAR Forum Da Nang, Viet

55. 29-30 May STOM Working Group
(ATSF) Nam

56. 31 May ARF SOM Bangkok, Thailand ARF Senior Officials

June
57. ARF Workshop on Principles of
25-26 June Building Security in the Use of Singapore ARF Working Group
ICTs in the National Context
Ad-Hoc Working Group Meeting to
Senior Officials
27 June Develop New ASEAN Plan of Putrajaya,
58. DGICM and/or Working
Action for Cooperation on Malaysia
Group
Immigration Matters
ARF Workshop and Table-Top
Exercise on Enhancing Law
Enforcement, Preventive
59. 26-28 June Indonesia ARF Working Group
Measures and Cooperation to
Address Complex Issues in the
Fisheries Sector

Regional Symposium on ASEAN ACWC, ACW, AIPR,

60. TBC ASEC (TBC) Senior Officials
Women, Peace, and Security ACDM

July

The 15th Meeting of ASEAN

61. 2-4 July Senior Labour Officials (SLOM) Bangkok, Thailand SLOM Senior Officials
and the 17th SLOM+3 Meetings

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level

62. 3-5 July 8th ADMN Operational Workshop Bangkok, Thailand ASOD Working Group

4th ASEAN Seaport Interdiction Ho Chi Minh,

63. 3-4 July ASOD Working Group
Task Force (ASITF) Viet Nam

64. 10-11 July ARF Workshop on Aviation Kuala Lumpur, ARF Working Group
Security and Information Sharing Malaysia

6th ASEAN Senior Officials

65. 16 July Singapore SOMTC Senior Officials
Roundtable on Cybercrime

ASEAN Plus Three Cybercrime

66. 17-19 July Singapore SOMTC Senior Officials
Conference 2019

19th Senior Officials Meeting on Senior Officials

Nay Pyi Taw,
67. 22-26 July Transnational Crime (SOMTC) SOMTC and Working
Myanmar
and Its Related Meetings Group

Putrajaya,
68. 30-31 July (TBC) ASEAN Visa Portal Workshop DGICM Working Group
Malaysia

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level

ASEAN Defence Ministers’

Meeting Experts’ Working Group Kuala Lumpur,
69. 31 July – 2 August ADSOM-Plus Working Group
on Humanitarian Assistance and Malaysia
Disaster Relief Staff Exercise

August

ASEAN Defence Ministers’

Meeting Experts’ Working Group Manila, the
70. 1-2 August ADSOM-Plus Working Group
on Cyber Security Table-Top Philippines
Exercise

71. 2 August 26th ASEAN Regional Forum Bangkok, Thailand ARF Ministerial

 21st Meeting of the Technical

Working Group on
Transboundary Haze Pollution
Bandar Seri
(TWG) Ministers and
72. 5-6 August Begawan, Brunei TWG and MSC
 21st Meeting of the Sub- Senior Officials
Darussalam
Regional Ministerial Steering
Committee on Transboundary
Haze Pollution (MSC)
The 12th Meeting of the SLOM
Working Group on Progressive
Chiang Mai,
73. 6-7 August Labour Practices to Enhance SLOM-WG Working Group
Thailand
the Competitiveness of
ASEAN (SLOM-WG)

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level
2nd ASEAN Cross-Sectoral
and Cross-Pillar Meeting on
Developing the Draft Work
Plan to implement the ASEAN Surabaya,
74. 7-8 August SOMTC Working Group
Plan of Action to Prevent and Indonesia
Counter the Rise of
Radicalisation and Violent
Extremism 2018-2025
23rd Meeting of ASEAN
Directors-General of
Immigration Departments and
Nay Pyi Taw,
75. 18-21 August Heads of Consular Affairs DGICM Senior Officials
Myanmar
Divisions of the Ministries of
Foreign Affairs (DGICM) and
Its Related Meetings
ACWC, ACW,
AICHR, ASEAN-IPR,
Regional Symposium on AWPR, SOMTC,
Phnom Penh,
76. 22-23 August implementing Women, Peace and SOMY, SOM-ED, Senior Officials
Cambodia
Security Agenda in ASEAN AUN-HRE, SOMRI,
SEOM, ACDM, AHA
Centre
 Retreat to Review Action Lines
under the AWGCC Action Plan
77. 26 - 28 August  2nd ASEAN Climate Change Singapore AWGCC Working Group
Partnership Conference
 10th Meeting of AWGCC

14th ASEAN Health Ministers Siem Reap,

78. 26 – 30 August SOMHD Minister
Meeting and its Related Meetings Cambodia

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level
40th Meeting of ASEAN Senior Siam Reap,
27-30 August Officials on Drug Matters (ASOD) ASOD Senior Officials
79. Cambodia
and Its Related Meetings

10th Meeting of ASEAN

80. TBC Technical Working Group on TBC ACDM, ADSOM Working Group
Civil-Military Coordination

September

ASEAN Defence Ministers’

Meeting Experts’ Working Group Chonburi
81. 1-7 September ADSOM=Plus Working Group
on Counter-Terrorism Table-Top Province, Thailand
Exercise

Ashore: Thailand
and Singapore
ASEAN-United States Maritime Offshore:
82. 2-7 September ADSOM Working Group
Exercise International
waters in
Southeast Asia

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level

ASEAN Defence Ministers’

Meeting Experts’ Working Group Seoul and Busan,
83. 2-7 September ADSOM-Plus Working Group
on Maritime Security Future ROK
Leaders’ Programme

SOMTC National Consultation on

the Establishment of a Focal Point
Putrajaya,
84. 12 September System of the National ACTIP SOMTC Working Group
Malaysia
Representative

4th ASEAN Seaport Interdiction Ho Chi Minh, Viet

85. 9-10 September ASOD Senior Officials
Task Force (ASITF) Nam

Consultative Meeting on the

Establishment Agreement (EA) of
86. 16-17 September the ASEAN Coordinating Centre Jakarta, Indonesia COM Senior Officials
for Transboundary Haze Pollution
Control (ACC THPC)

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level

The 12th ASEAN Forum on

87. 25-26 September Bangkok, Thailand ACMW Working Group
Migrant Labour

5th Meeting of the ASEAN

Militaries Ready Group on
Humanitarian Assistance and
30 September – 2
88. Disaster Relief (AMRG on HADR) Malaysia ADSOM Working
October
and Workshop on the Standard
Operating Procedure of the AMRG
on HADR

4th ASEAN Ministerial Conference

89. TBC Singapore Cross-cutting Ministerial
on Cybersecurity

5th Meeting of ASEAN Health

ASEAN Health
90. TBC Cluster 2: Responding to All TBC, Myanmar SOMHD
Cluster 2
Hazards and Emerging Threats

October
15th ASEAN Defence
Ministers’ Meeting Plus
91. 3-4 October Experts’ Working Group on Malaysia ADSOM-Plus Working Group
Humanitarian Assistance and
Disaster Relief

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level
 15th Meeting of the Committee
under the Conference of the
Parties to the ASEAN
Agreement on Transboundary
Haze Pollution (COM-15);
 15th Meeting of the Conference
of the Parties to the ASEAN
Agreement on Transboundary COM & COP Ministers and
92. 7-9 October Cambodia
Haze Pollution (COP-15) ASOEN & AMME Senior Officials
 Preparatory Meeting of the
ASEAN Senior Officials on the
Environment (ASOEN) for the
15th AMME (SOM)
 15th ASEAN Ministerial
Meeting on the Environment
(15th AMME)
12th Meeting of the Joint Task
ACDM, SOM,
Force on Humanitarian
93. TBC TBC, Myanmar ADSOM, SOMSWD, Senior Officials’
Assistance and Disaster Relief
SOMHD
(JTF on HADR)

November
13th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on
Ministerial and
94. 25-29 November Transnational Crime (AMMTC) TBC, Thailand SOMTC
Senior Officials
and Its Related Meetings
3rd ASEAN Cross-Sectoral and
Cross-Pillar Meeting on
Developing the Draft Work Plan to
95. TBC implement the ASEAN Plan of Bangkok, Thailand SOMTC Working Group
Action to Prevent and Counter the
Rise of Radicalisation and Violent
Extremism 2018-2025

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level
December

TBC

Aviation and Border Security

TBC Workshop: Strengthening Data TBC SOMTC Working Group
Exchange with INTERPOL
Leadership Exchange between
ASEAN and European Union on
Regional and National Action
TBC Brussels, Belgium SOMTC Working Group
Plans for Preventing and
Countering Violent Extremism
Conducive to Terrorism.
Meeting to Review the ASEAN
Cooperation Plan to Tackle Illicit
TBC Bangkok, Thailand ASOD Senior Officials
Drug Production and Trafficking in
the Golden Triangle 2017-2019
9th ASEAN Airport Interdiction
TBC Lao PDR ASOD Working Group
Task Force
ARF Workshop on Maritime Law
Enforcement Promoting
TBC Kuala Lumpur ARF Working Group
Comprehensive Approach to
Address Maritime Crimes

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Relevant Sectoral Participation

No Date Meeting/Activity Venue
Body/Entity Level
ASEAN Campaign(s) to promote
the ASEAN Convention Against
Trafficking in Persons, especially ACWC, ACW,
TBC Thailand Senior Officials
Women and Children (ACTIP) and AICHR, SOMTC
its linkage to violation against
women

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