Asean member states share information to strengthen anti-trafficking cooperation

Malaysian Immigration officers arresting an Indonesian woman working as a smuggling syndicate transporter in Ampang in March 2025. The Kuala Lumpur workshop’s objectives were to increase and strengthen cross-border investigative cooperation among law enforcement agencies within the Asean region.

KUALA LUMPUR: Brunei’s delegation participated in the Asean Workshop on Strengthening Transnational Investigative Cooperation under the Head of Specialist Anti-Trafficking Unit (HSU) Process Mechanism in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The workshop, on April 23 and 24, was one of the initiatives under the Asean Multi-Year Work Plan 2024–2028, endorsed ad referendum (for further consideration or ratification) by the Asean Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime (SOMTC) on August 12, 2024.