Inilah Isi dan Kesepakatan dalam Deklarasi Makassar

1. LOBBY for a stronger ASEAN Secretariat that the affairs of local governments, including a divison or unit specially focusing on cities and local government, including the need to emphasize the urgency and importance of closing the gaps between ASEAN countries and their local governments that have significant difference in level of development.

2. URGE central government to provide the enabling enviroment (legal, administrative, and financial) tha local government, private sector, civil society organisations, and citizens need to carry out to maximize their roles, reinforcng the necessary background and empowered society

3. REQUEST central governments to provide and citizens will actively participate in achieving the forthcoming suistuinable Development Goals, especially SDG 11 “Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilent, and sustainable”, and in formulating the new urban agenda at the occasion of habitat III and prepatory process

4. APEAL to relevent agencies to perform the necessary steps to undertake the following actions;

a. Raise awerness and educate people about the ASEAN through different modes or channels, including academic curriculum, cultural exchange programs, sosial media ect

b. Organize an annual meering of ASEAN Mayors, beginning with a event prior to the ASEAN Summit, to deliver the recommendationas of local governments. Also, create an ASEAN Mayors Network and its secretariat to run its operations

c. Estabilsh or formalize a platform, such as the DELGOSE network, to promote the sharing of experiences and good /best/smart practice, also including prospects for practical replication, knowledge enhancement, skills development, and capacity building

d. Explore financial options, such as estabilishing an ASEAN bank or mobilizing domestic and international resources, as a way to addres the perennial challenge of many local government lacking financial resources for develoment

Overall, we agree to focus more to opportinities the ASEAN Community present as well, to turn challenges as opportunities to transport ASEAN society. We hope for this Declaration to be included in the SEAN Charter;

Signed this 9 day of September. (*)