“…ASEAN Regional Forum also serves as a hub for formulation of workplan that implements the 2013-2017 PoA in 2014, it issued the ARF Work Plan on Counter-terrorism and Transnational Crime (ASEAN Regional Forum, 2017) focusing on priority areas of cyber security, illicit drugs suppression, mitigation of the use of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) by subversive actors, counter-radicalization or alternative narratives against extremist ideologies; anti-terrorism financing; and involuntary trafficking of persons. ARF also supported wider non-traditional security exercises that serve both capacity building as well as trust building among participating states, including Multilateral Tabletop or Field Exercises, Voluntary Training Courses, Capacity-Building Workshops, and ARF Pilot Projects (Zimmerman, 2014). ARF workplan takes the ASEAN-CT cooperation closer to the Counter Violent-Extremism (CVE) aspect of CT as it aims to empower participants in sabotaging terrorists' attempts at exploiting connectivity network and freedom of information to propagate their views (ASEAN Regional Forum, 2017).…”