Jakarta, Feb. 7 -- Indonesia, Laos, and Malaysia are continuing with the troika mechanism agreed upon at the ASEAN Summit in Jakarta in September 2023 to help resolve the ongoing crisis in Myanmar.

According to Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, the troika mechanism implemented by Indonesia as the previous ASEAN chair, Laos as the current chair, and Malaysia as the next chair is very important to ensure continuity in the handling of the Myanmar issue.

"At the summit in Jakarta, a new mechanism was agreed upon in ASEAN in the form of a troika to discuss how to implement the Five-Point Consensus on the Myanmar issue," Marsudi said on Tuesday.

She made the statement after accompanying President Joko Widodo to a meeting with Malaysian Foreign...