The Forum offers a timely opportunity to:
- Take stock of what the Bali Process region has built
Delegates will examine existing cooperation mechanisms, operational tools, and information-sharing networks, what those investments have produced in practice, and where gaps remain. - Share and evaluate practical solutions across the full range of border management
Through peer-to-peer exchange, delegates will contribute the tools, protocols, and practices their own agencies have developed and engage directly with what counterparts across the Bali Process region have found effective. - Examine what integrated response to converging threats requires in practice
Delegates will examine what the architecture of integrated response requires: the legal mandates, data-sharing arrangements, intelligence protocols, and coordination mechanisms that allow agencies to act on a shared picture rather than competing fragments of one.
- Build capability through delegate-led learning
Delegates will leave with knowledge, practical tools, and connections they can apply directly in their own agencies and operational contexts. - Strengthen the cooperation infrastructure that makes disruption possible
The forum promotes the bilateral and multilateral connections needed to support action against people smuggling and trafficking networks. - Set the region’s priorities for the next programming cycle
Delegates will translate the forum’s discussions into concrete, action-oriented recommendations, which will be carried forward and discussed at a senior-policy level at the Fifth Constructive Dialogue over 20-21 January 2027.
Download the concept note, agenda, and Fourth RSO Border Forum Outcome Report.
Discussion themes of the Fifth Border Forum include:
Frontline perspectives from across Bali Process Member States: Border officials from across the region will share first-hand experiences, lessons and practical solutions from their day-to-day work protecting borders and combating transnational crime.
Border management systems: How Member States are designing, upgrading and integrating systems that keep borders secure while facilitating legitimate travel and trade.
Information sharing and intelligence cooperation: Practical ways agencies can exchange timely, trusted information within and across borders to act faster and more effectively.
Detecting and responding to emerging border threats: The evolving tactics, technologies and routes that criminals use, and how frontline officers are adapting to stay ahead.
Trusted insider risks and organisational resilience: How border agencies can prevent, detect and manage corruption and insider threats while building a culture of integrity.
Identity management: Strengthening how identities are verified, recorded and protected to stop fraud and support safe, orderly movement of people.
Disrupting people smuggling and trafficking networks: Operational approaches to identifying, targeting and dismantling the criminal networks that exploit migrants and victims.
Building practical partnerships across borders: How working relationships between officers, agencies and countries translate into joint action on shared border challenges.
Learn more about the RSO Border Forum
Learn more about RSO’s flagship capability development event, which gathers frontline and liaison officials working across law enforcement, border and immigration management, policy, and judiciary systems, to strengthen international cooperation.
