Micronational Association of Southeast Asia

Micronational Association of Southeast Asia
Micronational Association of Southeast Asia
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Official languages	English, Indonesian, Malay and Tagalog
Membership	10 (at peak)
Leaders
• Secretary general	Mart Ian Siapno (last)
Establishment
• Established	1 April 2013
• Charter ratified	June 2013
• Dissolved	2017

Micronational Association of Southeast Asia, abbreviated as MASA, was a regional intermicronational organisation uniting micronations located in Southeast Asia. The organisation aimed to develop cooperation, promoting micronationalism, and to maintain peace among Southeast Asian micronations.

The organisation was intended to be the micronational counterpart of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), comprising ten countries in the organisation's founding year. Despite the commitment to cover all micronations in the region, MASA was dominated by Indonesian and Philippine micronations until its dissolution.

The decline of the Indonesian sector in 2016 and major changes in the Philippine micronational ecosystem deprived the organisation with its two main community stakeholders. By 2017, MASA was abandoned following the declining interest among members to continue the organisation.

History

The idea to establish the micronational version of ASEAN was first brewed among members of the Association of Indonesian Micronations (AIM) in the Indonesian sector in March 2013. However, the initial proposal was to enlarge AIM coverage instead of sponsoring a new organisation. The proposal was defeated by AIM members' opposition, and they instead endorsed efforts to establish a new organisation for Southeast Asian micronations.

On April 2013, the Indonesian micronational community invited Southeast Asian micronations, with a sizeable number of Philippine micronations, to discuss the possibility to establish a Southeast Asian micronational organisation. Southeast Asian micronationalists were enthused to the proposal, and by June 2013, MASA founding members had ratified the MASA establishment treaty.

Being the two largest micronational community in the organisation, Indonesian and Philippine micronations equally holding the hegemony in MASA. Organisation executives, including secretaries general and deputy secretaries, were supplied only by micronations from the two macronations.

The organisation was abandoned by its members in 2017 following the decline of the Indonesian sector in 2016 and major changes in the Philippine micronational ecosystem. At the year of its collapse, most MASA member states had either dissolved or hibernated.

The vacuum left by MASA in the Southeast Asian micronational community after its collapsed remained until May 2021, when younger micronationalists from the region found the Southeast Asian Micronational Association.

Organisation structure

The organisation structure comprised of the chairman, secretary general, and deputy secretaries, which rights and duties regulated on MASA Charter.

List of secretaries general

Luis Palay of Kaleido - June 2013 to November 2014
Anthony Thomas of Excellent - November 2014 to 3 October 2016
Mart Ian Siapno of Kaleido - 3 October 2016 - 10 April 2023

List of deputy secretaries

Darwin Eugenio of Ariana - July 2014 to November 2014
Mustafa Hakim of Indokistan - July 2014 to November 2014
Luis Palay of Kaleido - November 2014 to 2016
Vacant - 2016 to 2017

List of chairmen

Federal State of Indokistan - June 2013 to July 2014
Federal Monarchy of Omahkulon - July 2014 to September 2014
State of Ariana - September 2014 to January 2015
Vacant - January 2015 to 2017

Member states

At its peak, MASA had 10 member states,with founding members Bascal, Indokistan, Kaleido, and Los Bay Petros, received permanent membership and veto power privileges.

Indonesian micronations formed the majority of the organisation's members, with sizeable number of Philippine and Malaysian micronations. No other Southeast Asian macronations supplied a member state to the organisation.