This presentation provides a preliminary analysis of how the governments and people of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines responded to the wars in the Middle East region, particularly to the Gaza war.  Understanding that participation in protest carries both risk and cost, this presentation attempts to categorize the responses of both the governments and people of these countries to the Gaza war by dividing participation risk and costs.  The reasons for the cost/risk assessment is to delineate the willingness and direction of respondents and to curve out the characters of the state-society relations in these countries.  First, I will provide an overview of foreign relations of these Southeast Asian countries. Second, I attempt to provide Islamic elements that seems to appear in the foreign relations. And third, I will gather key characteristic of the responses of both the governments and people of these countries. And finally, I will provide a few observations.