Publication

The extractive industries raise issues of governance because they have typically been large scale, hi-tech enterprises that involve quite a few people. This working paper argued focus of study on governancedue to capacity to reveal the elitist or potentially secretive nature of its works as well as to uncover the link between the domestic and the global scales of governance.

This working paper agued for the “Knowledge-based governance”, the transformative capacity of knowledge to enhance collective advantages of people and country of ASEAN community. The knowledge-based character would direct the people’s trajectory toward sustainable development, as sustainability has been set as the guiding principle in governing the region.