Daish: Indonesia supports Interpol exchange of information

Indonesia is backing efforts to strengthen cooperation with the International Police, by exchanging information on IS and the emergence of new global threats after foreign terrorists returned home, Indonesia's Antara news agency reports.

"We had to have a commitment to work hand in hand, to exchange information on IS," head of international relations division of the Indonesian Police Headquarters, Inspector General Ketut Untung Yoga said on the sidelines of the 85th General Assembly of the International Police (Interpol) in Nusa Dua, Badung district, Tuesday.

In addition to exchange of information, Interpol should improve the capability of its members to counter conventional as well as new global threats, he said.

Furthermore, he reiterated the need to increase awareness and broaden networking between members.

"All this will need intensive cooperation. The most important thing is we should know each other, and work in coordination," he said.

The Indonesian Police has reaped the benefits of coordination among member countries, since it joined the 190-member group in 1954.

"We have uncovered many new modes of operation which had never been found in Indonesia before, but we knew this is based on information from other countries," Yoga added.

Indonesia could adopt other members' technic, tactics, as well as technology to improve its capability to cope with a new case, including establishment of regulations which has yet to be stipulated in the current laws.

"Currently with advanced technology, borderless (crimes) will prompt organised crimes that will not only involve one country, but more than one," he noted.

--BERNAMA