About one year after the COVID-19 pandemic hits the Southeast Asian region, some countries are still grappling with the best method to deal with the pandemic. Despite the fact that some countries have rolled out their vaccination strategy, some challenges remain, one of them is vaccine safety. The role of ASEAN in facing the pandemic as well as ASEAN's preparedness for other challenges is very interesting to discuss. 

In this seventh episode of The ASEANcast, we conversed with Muhammad Habib Abiyan Dzakwan, a researcher at the Disaster Management Research Unit at the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), who is currently pursuing a master's degree in International Relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C.