ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with who makes policy in the ASEAN states, how policy gets made, and why one policy prevails over another. It attempts to examine those aspects of the policy environment that have more general application to the policy-making process. The effects of the contradictory perceptions of the nature of the world surrounding Indonesia are evident in many aspects of Indonesian foreign policy. Most leaders were content to leave foreign policy to the Tunku's discretion. In Singapore there is a longitudinal consistency to foreign-policy pronouncements throughout most of the relatively brief lifetime of the republic. The Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, is a forceful leader whose perceptions of the world have provided the framework of Singapore's foreign policy. In policy making the second-generation foreign Minister, S. Dhanabalan, is, like his predecessor, not as visible as some of his cabinet colleagues.
