Jakarta (Indonesia), 24 to 27

January and 30 January to 3

February 2012 – UNODC through

its Norway-funded project seeks

to counter illegal logging and the

illicit trade in forest products in

Indonesia by strengthening the

country’s law enforcement and anti

corruption capacities. Preliminary

training needs assessment of the Indonesian National Police, judges,

prosecutor and forestry civil servant investigator conducted by

UNODC, revealed a need for specialized training courses in Advanced

Computer Forensic Investigations.

This training is to prepare law enforcement in dealing with complex

illegal logging or forest crime cases using anti-corruption and

anti-money laundering approaches, particularly in investigating,

surveillance and interview techniques. Three-batches of 60 senior

law enforcement agency personnel from Central Kalimantan, Papua

and West Papua were trained in the past two months on Advanced

Computer Forensic Investigations.

INDONESIANewsletter #23 January 2012

UNDOC, TIPIKOR Building, Ground Floor, Jl. HR Rasuna Said Kav C 19, Jakarta 12950 For further info: Marsha Suryawinata, Communicati on Associate email: marsha.suryawinata@unodc.org, phone: (62-21) 52920731, fax: (62-21) 52907427

www.unodc.org/indonesia

Bangkok (Thailand), 1 January

2012 – UNODC Regional

Centre for East Asia and the

Pacifi c reported that UNODC

work in the region is one of the

largest in UNODC worldwide. In

terms of overall performance,

the expenditure for 2011 for

various projects in the region is

approximately USD 17.7m. In

2011 UNODC also successfully mobilized an additional USD 9m for

future-year project activities.

As for UNODC Indonesia, the focus in 2011 had been to implement

the many activities for which funds had been secured in preceding

years. Overall, the Indonesia programme expenditure in 2011 grew by

32.87% compared with 2010. It is now the second largest programme

in the Region after the Regional Centre’s. UNODC Indonesia will work

on an expanded programme for 2012 and beyond, as per its Country

Programme.

Jakarta (Indonesia),

13 January 2012 – The

Norwegian Government-

funded project; “REDD

and Governance in

Indonesia: feasibility studies

on corruption and law

enforcement” has come to

an end. Two reports have

been produced as part of

the project, which can be

found in Bahasa Indonesia and English on: http://www.unodc.org/

eastasiaandpacifi c/en/indonesia/forest-crime.html

The successful implementation of Reducing Emissions from

Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) programme in

Indonesia is threatened by numerous obstacles including the risks of

corruption, fraud and the weak response of law enforcement agencies

to the new responsibilities deriving from the REDD programme.

Hence this project assessed the feasibility of REDD against risks of

corruption and illegal logging through two studies that highlight the

main challenges and recommend policy and regulatory solutions to

improve the effectiveness and sustainability of REDD programme. The

studies were carried out by Centre for International Forestry Research

(CIFOR) partnering with Ministry of Forestry, Corruption Eradication

Commission and UNODC.

Jakarta (Indonesia), 25 January

2012 – As a follow up to the

fi rst Presidential Anti-Corruption

Dialogue held on 9 December

2011 International Anti-Corruption

Day, The President of The

Republic of Indonesia, Susilo

Bambang Yudhoyono, hosted

the second dialogue with CSO

representatives at the Presidential

Palace. This dialogue was also attended by the Coordinating Minister

for Politics, Law and Security, Minister of Law and Human Rights,

Minister of Administrative Reform and Bureaucracy Reform and other

the presidential aides. A day prior, UNODC facilitated the dialogue

preparation conducted by 40 CSO representatives from Jakarta,

Semarang, East Nusa Tenggara, Bali, Makassar, East Kalimantan and

Papua.

UNODC Indonesia to expand its programme in 2012

Improving forest law enforcement with advanced skills

REDD vis-à-vis corruption and law enforcement reports

Targeting the top in fi ghting corruption

The Presidential dialogue raised key topics which are; law

enforcement, bureaucracy reform, budget accountability and

effi ciency, corruption in the regions and corruption in natural resources.

The President addressed the concerns and welcomed the CSOs

proposed action plan, which include the fi nalization of the National

Strategy on the Prevention and Eradication of Corruption (STRANAS

PPK) and follow up of the 2011 UNCAC review. The next Presidential

Anti-Corruption Dialogue will be held in April 2012.

Jakarta (Indonesia), 26 to 27 January 2012 – UNODC in partnership

with the The Supreme Court and The Judicial Commission of the

Republic of Indonesia hosted a regional workshop on “Judicial integrity

in Southeast Asia: Integrity-based judicial reform”. The workshop was

supported by The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and

Development of Germany and UNDP. 132 senior judges, academics

and legal practitioners from Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh,

Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar,

Nepal, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand

and Timor Leste attended this two-day workshop.

In a quest to identify good practices and advance regional

cooperation, participants discussed approaches to promote integrity-

based reforms of judicial systems in the region as a crucial element

of promoting political, social and economic development and

upholding human rights and the rule of law. The workshop focused

on international standards to uphold integrity in the justice sector,

pursuant to Article 11 of the United Nations Convention against

Corruption (UNCAC) and the Bangalore Principles of Judicial Conduct

(ECOSOC Res. 2006/23). Further mechanisms and institutions

designed to provide for accountability and both internal and external

oversight of the judiciary, including through the involvement of judicial

commissions, anti-corruption bodies, and non-state actors such as the

media and specialized NGOs was discussed.

Supreme Court Justices in the region unite for judicial integrity