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| Indonesian President Joko Widodo speaks on the occasion (Photograph: Antara) |
Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo has known as on member nations of the Affiliation of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to cooperate collectively within the battle towards cross-border crimes.
Talking on the seventeenth ASEAN Ministerial Assembly on Trans-border Crime (AMMTC) in East Nusa Tenggara province on August 21, Widodo highlighted the necessity to construct sustainable collaboration in exchanging info, utilising expertise, in addition to rising the capability and professionalism of the equipment.
Within the midst of world dynamics, he mentioned ASEAN ought to at all times be able to face challenges, together with eradicating transnational crimes that pose a grave menace to the area’s safety and stability, including that amid the present technological developments, transnational crimes are rising at an enormous scale and in additional complicated methods.
Therefore, to this finish, he pressed for the dealing with of those crimes to even be extra adaptive, particularly in relation to prison acts of terrorism, prison acts of human trafficking, and illicit narcotics commerce.
The President hoped that at this assembly, a responsive cooperation agenda could be formulated, which accommodates strategic steps so {that a} protected, peaceable, and affluent ASEAN area may very well be maintained.
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