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Pursuant to a scoping mission held in Jakarta in February 2010, representatives of the International Centre for Asset Recovery (ICAR), part of the Basel Institute on Governance, conducted two consecutive five-day country specific training programmes in respect of financial investigations and asset recovery in Indonesia in October/November 2010. This project took place in conjunction with the UNODC, its associate in an anti-corruption (AC) project “Support to the Fight Against Corruption in Indonesia”. The objective of this European Commission funded project is to support Indonesia’s fight against corruption by strengthening the Commission for the Eradication of Corruption (KPK), providing specialised AC trainings and strengthening the implementation of the National Action Plan for the Eradication of Corruption 2004 – 2009 (RAN-PK). One of the project’s outcomes is the enhancement of the investigation and prosecution capacities of AC agencies through specialised trainings.

The purpose of the Indonesian training mission was to provide capacity building training to key law enforcement agencies in analysing, investigating and prosecuting international corruption and related money laundering cases in Indonesia. It was also to assist the authorities of Indonesia in enhancing their staff’s ability to handle international requests and to succeed in co-operation with foreign jurisdictions to repatriate stolen assets.

The programmes were held at the training facility of the Pusat Pendidikan dan Pelatihan Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan, the State Audit Board in Jakarta, and attended by a total of seventy (70) participants. The delegates included investigators, prosecutors, judges and representatives of the KPK, Attorney General’s Office (AGO), Indonesian National Police, the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK or Indonesia’s FIU), the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, Pusdiklat BPK and the Bank of Indonesia.

At the beginning of the second week’s training, Mr Ajit Joy, the Country Manager for the Indonesian project office of UNODC, who had closed the first week’s training programme, also made a few opening remarks. He referred to the trainers attached to the ICAR, a very specialised unit within the Basel Institute on Governance, as the best trainers globally in the area of asset recovery and complimented them on their hard work in conducting a thorough needs assessment in Indonesia in preparation for the training programme.

In addition to ICAR trainers who utilised an extensive interactive practical exercise that simulated an actual corruption investigation in Indonesia as the centrepiece of the programme, insightful lectures were given by Judge Haswandi, a member of the Indonesian judiciary, and Dr Yudi Kristiana, a prosecutor with the Special Crime Division of the AGO. Their presentations dealt with Evidence in Corruption Cases and Financial Evidence: Strategies for the Acquisition of Evidence in Cross-Jurisdictional Investigation and Prosecution of Corruption, respectively.

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