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