| Summary: | There have been some significant paradigm shifting in the context of irregular
migration which involves actors like States, human smuggling networks, and
smuggled human themselves. Securitization of migration has become one, among
many reasons, as to why States advance their borders and immigration control
causing the urgent needs for asylum seekers to seek help by using human
smuggling networks. States hold a belief that their sovereignty is being threatened
and determine to pursue a regional cooperation. Bali Process has grown into one
of the phenomenons in the history of regional consultative process (RCP). This is
due to a quite enormous numbers of States' memberships, myriads domestic
conditions in each Member State, and one big country, Australia, which plays the
role as the destination country. Bali Process also has been staying under the
spotlight in recent years because after twelve years since it first emerged in 2002
has failed to attain the goals. This is partly because Australia has been attempting
(and succeeds at least most of the times) to drive Bali Process to its own will, to
serve its own interests. Thanks to the Operation Sovereign Borders that also takes
part in the collapse of Bali Process for it defies the Bali Process principals and
norms. As the Co-Chair Australia has a vital role and responsibility in driving Bali
Process to achieve the goals but with a consulation with Indonesia which also
happens to be a Co-Chair. The two must facilitate an intense communication
through high-level meetings with all Member States. However, the vacuum of
high-level meetings for four years consecutively contributes to the decline of Bali
Process in which the vacuum was caused by intentional actions and decisions.
Furthermore, this research highlights how too technical Bali Process in the past
few years were and too political in the next years are provide the high chances in
disintegrating it. What is more important is how the securitization of migration
threatens the rights to asylum guaranteed by International Law and UN
Convention on the Relating Status of Refugees 1951 and put the asylum seekers
lives in danger.
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