The Regional Support Office of the Bali Process

Consultation to Update the Bali Process Policy Guide on Following the Money in Trafficking in Persons Cases
2024-06-06 08:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Perth) | Jakarta, Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
This half-day consultation will bring together Bali Process Member States and Organisations that served on the original Drafting Committee of the Policy Guide on Following the Money in Trafficking in Persons Cases, together with the Global Initiative on Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), ASEAN-ACT and Bali Process Members with significant financial service industries or those notably impacted by recent trafficking trends.
The consultation aims to review the current Policy Guide, identify areas that require updating, and propose recommendations to enhance its relevance and usefulness for law enforcement and criminal justice officials.

Workshop on Border Management by Air
2024-06-03 08:00 - 2024-06-07 17:00 | Jakarta, Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
The RSO will hold a capacity building Workshop on Border Management by Air in partnership with the Jakarta Centre for Law Enforcement Cooperation over 3-7 June 2024.

Organized Crime, Critical Technologies and their Impact in South East Asia and Beyond
2024-05-15 08:00 - 2024-05-16 17:00 | Virtual (Zoom)
This side event to the 33rd United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, organised by Australia with support from the RSO, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), will explore the dynamics of the rapid development of technology and cyberspace and how technologies such as cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, natural language processing software and social media have been used by organised crime. The event will explore how these technologies have supported an explosion of criminality, while also investigating how global and regional responses can be more effective.

2024 Members' Engagement Function
2024-05-06 08:00 - 17:00 | Jakarta, Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
The RSO’s 2024 Members’ Engagement Function will take place in Jakarta, bringing together Bali Process Members, relevant Indonesian government agencies and wider partners and stakeholders for a networking event, to celebrate collaboration, cooperation, and dialogue around regional efforts to counter people smuggling, trafficking in persons and transnational crime.

Workshop for Strengthening Mongolia’s Cybercrime Investigative Capacity into Trafficking in Persons Cases
2024-04-09 - 2024-06-11
The RSO will hold the second workshop for strengthening Mongolia’s cybercrime investigative capacity into trafficking in persons cases from 9-11 April 2024.

Technical Experts Meeting on Following the Money in Trafficking in Persons
2024-04-06 | Jakarta, Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
Given the rapid change of the trafficking in persons landscape in Southeast Asia, as well as the methods used to transfer and launder related illicit proceeds, the Regional Support Office of the Bali Process (RSO), ASEAN-Australian Counter Trafficking (ASEAN-ACT) and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) are holding a two-day Technical Experts Meeting on Following the Money in Trafficking in Persons from 4 to 5 June 2024.
Objectives:
1. Develop a shared understanding of current trends and challenges on illicit money flows associated with trafficking in persons and money laundering
2. Identify best practice and challenges in current financial investigations linked to trafficking in persons
3. Understanding illicit money flows from forced labour in selected industries (fishing, agriculture, and adult entertainment industry), and illicit money flows from forced criminality in cyber scam centre operations
4. Develop a shared understanding of the role of informal

Regional Workshop on Prosecuting Trafficking in Persons for Forced Criminality Associated with Scams Centres in Southeast Asia
2024-03-19 08:00 - 2024-03-20 17:00 | Bangkok, Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand
The RSO will hold a Regional Workshop on Prosecuting Trafficking in Persons for Forced Criminality Associated with Scams Centres in Southeast Asia, with the Thai Attorney General’s Office, the International Justice Mission (IJM), and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Countering trafficking in persons: Assessment of Palermo Protocol implementation in Bali Process Member States’ national legal frameworks
2024-03-10 | Online, Online
The RSO is hosting a webinar to introduce a new Assessment Tool to support the assessment of national legal frameworks of Member States, and the implementation of the Palermo Protocol on Trafficking in Persons within Member States’ legislation. The webinar will also offer participants the opportunity to learn about current trafficking trends.
Register your attendance here.

Roundtable on Combatting Maritime People Smuggling in the Andaman Sea Region
2024-02-19 08:00 - 2024-02-20 17:00 | Bangkok, Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand
The escalating trend of people smuggling activities via the Andaman Sea region is a significant challenge for Bali Process Member States, posing a threat to the region’s security and wellbeing. In response, this Roundtable will bring together key stakeholders responsible for combatting maritime people smuggling with a shared interest in promoting regional cooperation and coordination to prevent, detect, and disrupt people smuggling operations in the Andaman Sea region.

Bali Process Disruption Working Group Joint Period of Action ‘Progression Session’
2024-01-23 08:00 - 2024-01-25 17:00 | Bangkok, Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand
The RSO will support the Bali Process Disruption Working Group Joint Period of Action ‘Progression Session’ event in January 2024.

Workshop on Challenges and Lessons Learned in Investigation and Prosecution of Trafficking in Persons cases
2024-01-17 08:00 - 2024-01-19 17:00 | Chiang Mai, Thailand
The RSO will support Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation’s Workshop on Challenges and Lessons Learned in Investigation and Prosecution of Trafficking in Persons cases over 17-19, January 2024 in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Strengthening Mongolia's Cyber-Crime Investigations on Human Trafficking
2024-01-16 08:00 - 2024-01-18 17:00 | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
The RSO will hold a training course on Strengthening Mongolia’s Cyber-Crime Investigations on Human Trafficking in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia over 16-18 January.

Introductory Training Course on Trafficking in Persons for Cadets at the People’s Police Academy, Hanoi
2024-01-15 08:00 - 2024-01-18 17:00 | Hanoi, Viet Nam, Hanoi, Viet Nam
The RSO will hold an Introductory Training Course on Trafficking in Persons for Cadets at the People’s Police Academy, Hanoi, Viet Nam over 15-18 January 2024.
