The Regional Information, Liaison and Outreach Network Initiative (RILON Initiative)

Leza represents Australia as the RSO Secondee to the Regional Information, Liaison and Outreach Network (RILON) response group, supporting enhanced regional information sharing to address maritime people smuggling. In this role, she will work collaboratively with Member States to strengthen relationships, improve regional capability, and advance joint initiatives aimed at promoting effective and coordinated responses to shared border challenges.

An Australian Government official, Leza brings more than 15 years of immigration and border management experience. Her career spans a wide range of operational roles, including border control, passenger clearance, and the detection of document and identity fraud. She has also held management positions relating to Australia’s permanent Migration Program.
Leza’s international experience includes multiple overseas postings where she collaborated closely with international law enforcement partners to reinforce border integrity, facilitate lawful travel, and enhance information flows critical to threat identification. Her work in Vietnam included managing a significant visa program and partnering with regional stakeholders across the Mekong to address emerging visa trends and migration issues.

Leza’s secondment to RILON runs from late January 2026 to June 2026. During this period, she is committed to sharing Australia’s expertise, deepening regional cooperation, and contributing to policy discussions that strengthen border governance and protection frameworks across the region.

Recommended book:  ‘How to Argue with a Cat:  A Human's Guide to the Art of Persuasion’: This book is a light, humorous introduction to persuasion - using cats as the teachers. The author uses feline behaviour as metaphors for effective communication techniques, like timing, confidence, emotional appeal, and knowing when not to engage. It’s essentially a fun, accessible guide to classical discussion skills, but presented in a very playful way.

Email: leza.ahmed-wyatt@rso.baliprocess.net 

Majid is an experienced immigration professional with an extensive background in border management, document examination, passengers profiling, impostors’ detection and cross border joint investigation on trafficking in persons, people smuggling and other transnational organised crime. Currently serving as the representative of the Republic of Indonesia as Secondee to the Regional Information, Liaison and Outreach Network (RILON) Maritime People Smuggling Response Group, Majid will contribute his expertise to enhanced regional information sharing and mitigate shared challenges in addressing maritime people smuggling especially in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea corridor.

Majid is the Deputy Director for International Cooperation of the Directorate General of Immigration of the Republic of Indonesia, where he formulates, coordinates and manages all the Directorate General’s engagement in International Immigration cooperation, including as relates to efforts in combating people smuggling and other transnational crimes.

His work experience also extends to his tenure as the Immigration Attache in Davao City, Mindanao, the Philippines (2014-2018), the Head of Kuala Tungkal, Jambi Immigration Office (2018-2020) and the Immigration Attache in Sydney, Australia (2021-2025). Throughout his career and trainings, he has demonstrated expertise in the areas of immigration law, immigration and border governance, document fraud and impostor’s detection, and mutual assistance in criminal matters.

Recommended film: Limbo by Ben Sharrock. It is a strikingly humane and quietly powerful film. It blends deadpan humor with aching melancholy to capture the psychological state of asylum seekers stranded in bureaucratic uncertainty. The Scottish Island setting is not just a backdrop but a metaphor: windswept, isolated, and surreal, mirroring the dislocation of those caught between past and future, home and exile. From a personal standpoint, Limbo succeeds because it balances empathy with artistry. It doesn’t lecture; it invites reflection and is one of the most sophisticated cinematic explorations of migration and belonging in recent years.

Email: agus.abdul.majid@rso.baliprocess.net