SEANAS

History of SEANAS

ASEAN establishment in 1967 was meant to accommodate a safe region in South-East Asia.  Since 1997, ASEAN leaders have started to think about the development of collective identity among members of ASEAN through the promotion of ‘ASEAN VISION 2020’ as a Southeast Asia community which share and care each other. On the 12^th Summit in Cebu the Philippines in January 2007, it was agreed that the establishment of ASEAN community was scheduled from 2020 to 2015 as the deadline of free global market for goods, labors and services.

ASEAN community represents around 550 million population that might creates and attracts the potential market for goods, labors, and services including other animal production sectors. In 2009 at UGM, the South-East Asia Network of Animal Science (SEANAS) has been established with the objectives: a) to enhance the awareness of ASEAN community 2015, b) to increase networking among persons in charge of higher education of animal science (dean and/or head of department in animal science) in ASEAN region, and c) to set up communication forum for higher education of animal science in ASEAN region.

Several meetings and workshops were conducted since establishment in 2009:

1^st SEANAS Meeting/Workshop, 2009 hosted by UGM, Indonesia

2^nd SEANAS Meeting/Workshop, 2010 hosted by UGM, Indonesia (Paralleled with 5^th ISTAP)

3^rd SEANAS Meeting/Workshop, 2013 hosted by UGM, Indonesia

4^th SEANAS Meeting /Workshop, 2014 hosted by UGM, Indonesia (Paralleled with 16^th AAAP)

5^th SEANAS Meeting/Workshop, 2015 hosted by MJU, Thailand

6^th SEANAS Meeting/Workshop, 2017 hosted by VNU, Vietnam

7^th SEANAS Meeting/Workshop, 2018 hosted by UPM, Malaysia (Paralleled with 18^th AAAP)

8^th SEANAS Meeting and Symposium, 2019 hosted by UGM, Indonesia (Paralleled with 8^th ISTAP)

SEANAS Activity