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Name: Index Number: Class: DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL Preliminary Examinations Year 6 H2 HISTORY 9752 / 02 Paper 2 The Making of Independent Southeast Asia (Independence – 2000) 19 September 2017 3 hours Additional Materials: Answer Paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number, index number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer two questions. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. This document consists of 5 printed pages. [Turn over]

2 ©DHS 2017   Section A You must answer all questions from this section. ASEAN EFFORTS TO ENGAGE IN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION 1. Read the sources and then answer the question which follows. When answering Question 1 candidates are advised to pay particular attention to the interpretation and evaluation of the sources both individually and as a group. Source A While ASEAN’s declared objectives were economic, social and cultural, all knew that progress in economic cooperation would be slow. The fall of Saigon to the communists in April 1975 increased our sense of danger from subversion and insurgency. ASEAN had to undertake economic development more effectively to reduce domestic discontent. At a bilateral meeting with Suharto in Bali in September 1975, I tried to persuade him to agree to set economic targets for ASEAN at its first summit, and to go for a trade liberalization policy starting with a 10 percent reduction by member countries of tariffs on selected items and leading eventually to a free trade area. Suharto’s close aide later told our ambassador that after [he] met me, his technocrats had advised him against free trade. Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in his memoir, 2000. Source B When I opened the Ninth Meeting of the ASEAN Economic Ministers Meeting in 1980, the outlook for the world economy was sombre. World trade was slowing down, unemployment was rising and protectionism was widely practiced. In spite of these trends, there is much for ASEAN to be proud of. ASEAN continued to make progress in the area of trade cooperation. In the last two years, trade preferences exchanged under th e ASEAN Preferential Trading Arrangements (PTA) have increased from 2,827 to 8,560 products. Across-the-board tariff cuts of 20-25% on items with import values of below USD 2.5 million have been implemented. To further stimulate intra-ASEAN trade within t he existing framework, we can do more to make deeper tariff cuts, expand trade liberalisation for products on a sectoral basis, and review the exclusion lists. We must be careful not t