Asian Law Student Association
editALSA is an abbreviation of "Asian Law Student Association" ALSA consists of 11 national chapters, they are Bangladesh, Brunei China, Hongkong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
== History Of ALSA ==[1]
ASEAN Law Students' Association (ALSA) was formed in 1989 by a group of Indonesian law student whose had an idea to form an organization where they can promotes a better understanding and appreciation to different legal systems on each country, as well as promoting friendship among the students. This organization was form for another objective also, which is to facilitate the exchange of information and newest legal issues. The member of ALSA when it was established comes from the nations that already joined a regional association, ASEAN (Association of the South East Asian Nation) that consist of law students from Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Philippines.
Since the information technology growth rapidly, and the interaction trough communication with the globalization principles emerged, ALSA accepted it as a strong motivation to expand the network and friendship between the law students in ASEAN countries with law students from the rest of Asian countries. Therefore, on September 7th, 2002 ALSA and the other Asian countries which unified in the Asian Law Students' Association (Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong) agreed to merge their organizations through the Tokyo Agreement to become Asian Law Students' Association (ALSA).
Asian Law Students' Association (ALSA) is a non governmental and non political organization whose members consist of the law students from Asian Countries, comprised from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Filipina, Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as a result from the Tokyo Agreement.
Until now, a strong relationship among member countries of ALSA is still closely tied in, and cooperation on the academic and non-academic program are being held intensively based on the visions and the objectives of ALSA and also the values that lived in each member countries of ALSA to gain a better ALSA.