INDONESIA

INDONESIA.

10th anniversary of the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Declaration.
Map of the five signatory countries: the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.
Second stamp in a set of 3, issued on 08.08.1977.
Face value: 35 Indonesian rupee.
Printing: Photogravure.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 880.
- Scott No. 1007.
- StampWorld No. 923.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1481.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 803.

The Founding Declaration of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was signed on August 8, 1967 by the foreign ministers of five countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. The aims and purposes of ASEAN are to accelerate economic growth, social progress, and cultural development in the region, to promote regional peace, collaboration and mutual assistance on matters of common interest, to provide assistance to each other in the form of training and research facilities, to collaborate for better utilization of agriculture and industry to raise the living standards of the people, to promote Southeast Asian studies and to maintain close, beneficial co-operation with existing international organizations with similar aims and purposes. Later, other countries joined the Association.