Welcome to the Hwa Chong Model ASEAN Summit Website

Dates

The 8th Hwa Chong Model ASEAN Summit will be held on the 2nd, 5th and 6th of July 2010.

Theme

The theme for the 8th Hwa Chong Model ASEAN Summit will be: Many Challenges; One ASEAN.

Concept

The Structure of the Model ASEAN Summit

The Hwa Chong Model ASEAN Summit is first and foremost a simulation of the ASEAN Summit. The summit consists of a simulation of the real-world workings of ASEAN at different official levels – Work Group, Director-General, Senior Official and Ministerial.

A group of 12 delegates attending the summit will represent one member country and each member country is represented by two delegates in each of the communities (5 in total) and 2 press correspondents. Delegates will role-play diverse subsets of the real ASEAN.

The summit kicks off with the ministers of each community coming together for a pre-summit retreat. During the Ministerial Retreat, delegates will focus on broad discussions on policy and strategic matters. Delegates will then role play members of the Work Group and Director-Generals, and engage in the drafting of the declarations. Following that, delegates will assume the role of Senior Officials who will revise the policies and tie up the loose-ends if necessary. The meetings culminate into the ASEAN Summit which would involve a formal discussion between the Heads of State, the ASEAN Secretariat and the dialogue partners. In a nutshell, delegates will get to experience the real-world workings of ASEAN at every official level.