Since the Sulawesi quake and tsunami, Asean member states have agreed to increase financial contributions to humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations (HADR). However, an alternative framing of HADR is needed to draw enterprises in bridging gaps.

… Jose Montesclaros is an Associate Research Fellow with the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS Centre) at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. This comment first appeared in RSIS Commentaries.