Blogs and op-eds
Disaster and displacement in the Asia Pacific: new realities and challenges
In August 2025, relentless monsoon rains swept through Bangladesh, a country consistently ranked among the world’s most disaster a...
30 September 2025
Maritime smuggling in Southeast Asia: shifting tides, shared challenges
Coinciding with Malaysia’s hosting of the 2025 ASEAN Summit last month, the Regional Support Office of the Bali Process (RSO) and ...
24 June 2025
Why providing a legal identity for all should be Southeast Asia’s next big migration priority
By RSO Co-Managers Fuad Adriansyah & David Scott | Published in The Diplomat on 30 May 2025.
People without proof of legal ...
30 May 2025
Uniting against cyber-scam gangs
By RSO Co-Managers Fuad Adriansyah & David Scott | Originally published in the Bangkok Post on 11 Dec 2024...
11 December 2024
Regional cooperation key to countering trafficking
By RSO Co-Managers Fuad Adriansyah & David Scott |
Published in the Jakarta Post on 3 June 2024....
03 June 2024
Videos
The RSO worked with Thailand-based sand artist Kongkait Kongchandee and A21 – a non-profit organisation dedicated to combating human trafficking and modern-day slavery, and an individual with a lived experience from being trafficked into an online scam centre to develop this short sand art performance.
Legal Identity and Statelessness: A Personal Account
The RSO worked together with multimedia artist Fairuz Sulamain, and Kanteera Techaphattanaku, to tell the story of Kanteera’s firsthand experiences of statelessness through a narrative and visual performance at the 2025 RSO Members' Engagement Function in Bangkok.
RSO Member State Spotlight: Indonesia
The Regional Support Office of the Bali Process (RSO) convened government representatives, law enforcement officers, civil society partners, and regional stakeholders in Jakarta for a week-long series of activities through the RSO Member State Spotlight: Indonesia.