Upaya pembentukan integrasi moneter di kawasan Asia Timur dan Tenggara terlahir dari sebuah kerjasama moneter dan integrasi finansial yang sedang berjalan. Akan tetapi, hal tersebut mendapat perdebatan. Ada pandangan yang setuju terhadap pembentukan integrasi tersebut dengan alasan untuk menciptakan stabilitas moneter dan finansial. Hal itu didukung dengan progresifnya kerjasama moneter yang terus berkembang dan pengurangan disparitas ekonomi melalui kerjasama finansial dan perdagangan. Tetapi, alasan tersebut mendapat tantangan bahwa kawasan Asia Timur dan Tenggara masih terlalu jauh untuk menciptakan integrasi moneter. Hal tersebut berkaca dari karateristik integrasi moneter seperti reserves pooling dan koordinasi moneter belum dimiliki oleh negara-negara di kawasan Asia Timur dan Tenggara.

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The efforts to establish a regional monetary integration in East and Southeast Asia was born from a monetary cooperation and financial integration. However, it got the debate. There are optimism views to the establishment of the integration. The reasons are to create monetary and financial stability. These view is supported by progressivity of monetary cooperation that always continue to grow and the reduction of economic disparity through financial cooperation and trade. However, that views being challenged that East and Southeast Asia is still too far away to create monetary integration. It is because the characteristics of monetary integration such reserves pooling and monetary coordination not owned by the countries in East and Southeast Asia.