ISAS Insights

Commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), leaders of the 21 member-states have charted a wide-ranging agenda of cooperation. Meeting in Jakarta in March 2017, the IORA leaders outlined the first steps towards ensuring stability and promoting growth in the organisation's vast maritime space. While the challenges are many within the region and from beyond it as well, an available means of generating the requisite strategic trust among the member-countries is to synergise the efforts of IORA and the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium (IONS).