ADMM

The ASEAN Security Community (ASC) Plan of Action, adopted at the 10th ASEAN Summit, stipulates that ASEAN shall work towards the convening of an annual ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting. Against this background, the Inaugural meeting of the ADMM was held in Kuala Lumpur on 9 May 2006.

The ADMM is the highest defence consultative and cooperative mechanism in ASEAN. The ADMM aims to promote mutual trust and confidence through greater understanding of defence and security challenges as well as enhancement of transparency and openness.

ADMM Chair

The Chairmanship of the ADMM follows the chairmanship of ASEAN. For 2023, Indonesia is the Chair of ASEAN, and the Chairman of the ADMM and the ASEAN Defence Senior Officials' Meeting (ADSOM) and ADSOM Working Group (WG) are as follows:

Chairman of ADMM :

H.E Prabowo Subianto
Minister of Defence, The Republic of Indonesia

Chairman of ADSOM :

Air Marshal Donny Ermawan T., M.D.S
Secretary General, Ministry of Defence

ADSOM WG Leader :

Brigadier General Steverly C. Parengkuan
Director for Defence International Cooperation Ministry of Defence