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This study discusses the formation of India's Look East Policy and its impact on India's relations with ASEAN. India's relations with Southeast Asian countries have long been established through various forms. However, in the Cold War era, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, India's relations with the Southeast Asian region were somewhat bleak because India did not place this region as a priority region in its foreign policy. However, the end of the Cold War with the fall of the Soviet Union had forced India to find a new direction in its foreign policy. In this unfavorable Indian economic condition, India is beginning to see the economic growth of ASEAN member countries as something positive for India. Thus, in 1991 the Look East Policy of India was formed with the aim of enhancing relations with its eastern neighbors. This paper discuss the formation and development of this Look East Policy and the importance of ASEAN in that policy. The analysis is done based on historical approaches by examining primary sources such as records of ASEAN organizations, documents from the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, newspapers and secondary sources. The study found that this policy has strengthened India's relationship with ASEAN and further enhanced it to a wider dimension through India's Act East Policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]