Jakarta (Indonesia), 19-20 December 2023 - On December 19 and 20, 2023, the CoE engaged in a series of meetings with key national and regional institutions based in Jakarta to enhance collaborative efforts in crime and criminal justice statistics for Indonesia and for the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
The CoE and Statistics Indonesia (BPS) discussed enhancing the statistical capacity of producing data for trafficking in persons (TiP). BPS expressed a desire to cooperate on Trafficking in Persons, highlighting the need for evidence-based crime prevention strategies through collecting and analysing empirical data, disaggregated systematically and coherently in line with the international standards. The CoE proposed tailored activities to support national institutions in the production of high-quality TiP data.
The CoE met the ASEAN Statistics Division to identify partnership opportunities in enhancing the statistical capacities of the ASEAN Member States to produce harmonized crime and criminal justice data. The potential area of collaboration includes increasing SDG 16 data availability and interoperability among the ASEAN Member States. The two institutions decided to join forces to organize a sub-regional training to support ASEAN Member States in producing crime and criminal justice data, based on the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems(UN-CTS).
Finally, the CoE had a meeting with the Program Management Team(PMT) of the ASEAN-KOREA Cooperation Fund, seeking potential areas of cooperation to better support ASEAN Member States in implementing UNODC methodological tools. The PMT aims to strengthen the relationship between ASEAN Member States and the Republic of Korea through various cooperation activities on public health, education and training, culture and tourism, economic resilience and the environment, safety and peace.
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