REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Indonesian government will push for the Code of Conducts on South China Sea (COC) process to be discussed during the ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers' Special Meeting in Kunming, Yunan, China, on June 13 and 14.

"We want to implement the DOC (Declaration on Conduct) fully and effectively, and the most important point on the DOC is the COC's finalisation," said ASEAN Dialogue Partner and Inter-region Director Derry Aman during a press briefing at the Foreign Affairs Ministry office here on Thursday.

Derry explained that the full and effective implementation of DOC will be the basic position of Indonesia in a bid to solve the dispute on the South China Sea for the next 10 to 20 years.

"Because we believe it will lead to a solid solution for the South China Sea," he noted.

But, Derry emphasized that during the Kunming meeting, the ASEAN member states would not raise any issue related to the process of Permanent Court of Arbitration (PAC) brought by Philippines concerning the legality of China's "nine-dotted line" claim over the South China Sea.

"It is almost impossible that ASEAN will come out with a joint statement on that case (PAC), as the meeting is intended to discuss the ASEAN-China partnership and regional issues," he stated.

However, Derry added that if the ASEAN member states eventually release a joint statement on PAC, it would not be addressed to back any particular side.

"That (the statement) will show our general point of view," he noted.

Despite Beijing's refusal to take part in the proceedings on October 29, 2015, the Court of Permanent Arbitration (PCA) issued a ruling on the jurisdiction and admissibility of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea's (UNCLOS) arbitration case launched by the Philippines against China.

China claims a huge swath of the South China Sea, overlapping competing claims from the ASEAN members states, including the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei.

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