Since 2020, the FPCI Research and Analysis Unit has been publishing the ASEAN-China Survey. The survey has become one of the main references for assessing the state of ASEAN-China relations.

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This year, we see a need to produce a new survey report that focuses on ASEAN’s partners. Partners that have strategic significance to ASEAN—politically, economically, and strategically we see the US, China, Japan, and India as the four most strategic partners for ASEAN.

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ASEAN’s led regional mechanism would never be effective or impactful without the support of the four, such as at the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum, which would never be relevant without the presence of the four as well. The same situation applies to the AOIP. Even the RCEP provides a special mechanism for India to rejoin the framework.

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However, FPCI often found that those countries were lost in knowing what Southeast Asians thought about them and how the relationship went from the region's perspective. Learning from FPCI's experience with the ASEAN-China Survey and the significance of the survey result to foreign policy communities in Indonesia and abroad, FPCI Research and Analysis initiated a new survey program known as ASEAN Peoples’ Perception Survey 2023. This survey aims to provide a candid perspective of Southeast Asian on China, India, Japan, and the USA.