Indonesia and other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) can have an important role in improving human rights condition in North Korea. Indonesia's relationship with the pariah country, as well as ASEAN's overarching influence in Asia, should be able to exert some positive influence on Kim Jon-Un and his policies.

The idea was conveyed by a number of speakers during the seminar A Long Road to Enforcing and Upholding Human