TIM eMagazine Volume 2 Issue 2 | Page 12

Maritime “Our goals right now as far as the BEV 2025 is concerned are to facilitate integration, strengthen linkage, and encourage coherence of the various elements within the plan as we move towards identifying specific activities that help narrow development gaps within EAGA,” photo credit: minda.gov.ph EAGA CONNECTION Deputy Permanent Secretary Tutiaty Wahab of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brunei Darussalam, Assistant Deputy Minister Netty Muharni of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs of Indonesia, Principal Assistant Secretary Mohammad Izuddin Idris of the Economic Planning Unit of Malaysia and Assistant Secretary Arturo Boncato Jr. of the Department of Trade and Industry of the Philippines pose for a posterity photo during the opening ceremonies of the BIMP-EAGA Strategic Planning Meeting held in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12