Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO)

Strengthening cooperation and dialogue among 49 Bali Process Members to address people smuggling, trafficking in persons, and related transnational crime.

[Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO) @baliprocessrso]

Check out the Bali Process' introductory video to learn about how we work to combat #MigrantSmuggling, #HumanTrafficking and related transnational crime

https://t.co/M4ZLNv4psc

[Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO) @baliprocessrso]

📢 RSO Member State Spotlight: Indonesia is happening next week!

🌟Stay tuned for a week of networking, training, & expert dialogues, bringing together Bali Process government representatives, frontline officers, national and regional actors in Jakarta 🇮🇩

📅View the RSO's calendar for more information about activities taking place throughout the week: https://t.co/pXfa4hYQ7l

Check out highlights from last year’s Spotlight Week ➡️ https://t.co/H1bxjPKk1d

[Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO) @baliprocessrso]

The fishing industry is central to livelihoods across Southeast Asia & the Pacific. Regional partnerships are critical to understanding its dynamics and supporting efforts to combat transnational crime.

This week in Bangkok, @BaliProcessRSO, @ILOAsiaPacific and @IOMThailand are convening international organisations, civil society, government agencies, & industry actors from across the region to identify priority actions on:
🔹 Fair & ethical recruitment
🔹Labour-sensitive vessel inspections
🔹 Supply chain due diligence

[Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO) @baliprocessrso]

🚨 One week left to apply!

🔎 The RSO is looking for a Programme Officer to support its strategic communications and engagement activities— including the delivery of the RSO Communications and Engagement Strategy, social media content development, digital platform management, and proactive stakeholder outreach leading up to the RSO's flagship events.

🔗 Apply before 8 June (GMT+7) : https://t.co/wl1RGMekXu

[Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO) @baliprocessrso]

🚨 New job alert!

Do you have hands-on experience in research, event coordination, and programme delivery in the field of transnational crime or related issues?

🔍 The RSO is looking for a Programme Officer to support the design and implementation of activities under the Transnational Crime and Technology team— spanning event coordination, research, and the development of strategic communication materials to support the objectives of the programme.

📅 Apply by 10 June (GMT+7): https://t.co/7As1vm3gwH

#BaliProcess #RSO #Jobs #Bangkok

[Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO) @baliprocessrso]

Eid Mubarak! 🌙

Warmest wishes from the RSO to all celebrating Eid al-Adha. May this time of reflection and togetherness bring joy and peace to you and your loved ones.

[Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO) @baliprocessrso]

🚨 New job alert!

🌐 Do you have experience in strategic communications, social media and website management, and editorial content development for international or intergovernmental organisations?

🔎 The RSO is looking for a Programme Officer to support its strategic communications and engagement activities— including the delivery of the RSO Communications and Engagement Strategy, social media content development, digital platform management, and proactive stakeholder outreach leading up to the RSO's flagship events.

🔗 Apply before 8 June (GMT+7) : https://t.co/DcpQGHIgpd

#BaliProcess #JobOpportunity #Consultancy #Communications #Bangkok

[Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO) @baliprocessrso]

🔎As trafficking networks continue to evolve alongside technology, conflict, and shifting migration patterns, strengthening regional cooperation and leadership readiness remains critical to responding to emerging threats.

🌏The Border Control Agency Management Program (BCAMP) is a specialised training program for emerging immigration and border agency leaders from #ASEAN Member States and Australia, focusing on building skills and connections to manage the safe movement of people across borders, including countering trafficking in persons and people smuggling.

📍At #BCAMP35 taking place this week in Hanoi, Viet Nam, Ben Reeves, RSO Co-Manager (Australia), presented on “Emerging Leaders, Emerging Threats: Building Border Agency Readiness for Next-Generation Trafficking.”

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽Thank you to BCAMP and organising partners, the Australian Department of Home Affairs, Viet Nam's Ministry of Public Security and The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology @RMIT for the opportunity to contribute. The RSO looks forward to continued engagement with the next generation of immigration and border agency leaders on practical approaches to prevention, preparedness, and cross-border collaboration.

[Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO) @baliprocessrso]

The RSO was pleased to welcome Nicole Batch, Head of Migration Development at @RedCrossAU earlier this month to discuss shared priorities, and exchange knowledge and experiences.

Discussions focused on areas of current work and potential collaboration to promote regional dialogue and practical cooperation on topics including:

🛡️Protection of the rights of children in the context of immigration detention to promote their well-being and ensure access to essential services through community-based alternatives to detention.

🚨Strengthening preparedness and coordinated responses to irregular migration situations as well as distress situations on land and at sea through stronger national planning capacities, clearer coordination structures, and faster data-driven decision-making.

🤝 Strengthening national coordination and transnational cooperation between origin, transit, and destination countries to carry out effective search, identification and protection efforts, including through Disaster Victim Identification systems.

#BaliProcess #IrregularMigration #RegionalCooperation

[Jane Duke @AusAmbPSHT]

Welcome the new report on gender, technology & trafficking from @AICriminology & @baliprocessrso. Gender‑responsive and survivor‑centred approaches are critical to combating human trafficking and transnational crime.

Download the report: https://t.co/aCfk90JzQU

[IOM Thailand @IOMThailand]

IOM's 2026 World Migration Report is out now!

The report brings together the best available data, research and lived experiences to tell the full story of global migration today.

Explore the report: https://t.co/Aqn1vwnGs7

[Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO) @baliprocessrso]

🌐 Effective response requires information sharing at every level, between agencies nationally, through diplomatic missions abroad, and across international channels including @INTERPOL_HQ, MLATs, and informal practitioner networks. Alongside operational coordination, active engagement in national and regional policy discussions is important to align responses, reduce duplication, and direct finite resources where they will have the most impact.

Yesterday's discussion builds on Indonesia's continued efforts to strengthen coordinated responses to cyber-scam centres, and will feed in to broader efforts across the region and beyond. 💪🏼

[Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO) @baliprocessrso]

Cyber-scam centre operations have expanded well beyond Southeast Asia, and the urgency of coordinated responses - at both the national and regional level - has never been greater. 🌏

🤝 In support, yesterday the RSO co-hosted the Thematic Dialogue on Preventing and Responding to #TraffickingInPersons into Cyber-Scam Centres in Jakarta, in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (@Kemlu_RI)
The dialogue brought key Indonesian response agencies into the same room as Indonesian diplomatic missions posted across Southeast Asia, creating a unique opportunity to align the global and regional situation with national responses, and coordinate across agencies responding to the same challenge from different angles. Discussions were detailed, and the connections formed will help bolster the foundation for stronger coordinated action moving forward.

A warm thank you to @Kemlu_RI for co-hosting this dialogue, and for Indonesia's continued leadership as Bali Process Co-Chair - driving forward our shared work plan and regional responses to #trafficking and #forcedcriminality.

[Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO) @baliprocessrso]

💰 #FinancialInvestigations are among the most powerful tools available for disrupting scam centre operations. Proceeds move fast, across jurisdictions, through underground banking, virtual assets & #crypto, and shell companies, but following that money works. Without illicit proceeds continuing to flow, the incentive to operate cyber-scam centres falls away.

Targeted approaches are showing results in the region, and the challenge now is strengthening #financialintelligence practices and sharing what works across agencies and borders.

Learn more about financial crime and cyber-scam centres in Southeast Asia in this report by @GI_TOC, supported by the RSO: https://t.co/HQ6zvjoH29

[Bali Process Regional Support Office (RSO) @baliprocessrso]

🌊 Maritime people smuggling, particularly across the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal corridor, remains one of the most complex migration challenges in the region. According to @UNmigration, more than 6,500 people embarked on dangerous maritime journeys in 2025, with over 860 deaths and disappearances recorded in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal alone.

The establishment of the Regional Information, Liaison, and Outreach Network (RILON) Maritime People Smuggling Response Group brought together frontline practitioners and policy counterparts from six most-affected countries—Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Timor-Leste—to lay the foundations for timely, trusted, and actionable information sharing to counter irregular migration and maritime people smuggling in the region.

Participating Member States are seconding officers to the RSO office in Bangkok, Thailand, where officials will work together to strengthen sustained networks and connections that can support cross-border coordination.

The RSO held a foundation-setting Induction Programme in Bangkok over 30 March-1 April, providing an early opportunity for participating Members to come together and strengthen shared understanding to enable more effective responses to irregular migration and maritime people smuggling across the region.

Learn more: https://t.co/K6OZLdYEDr