Regional Support Office of the Bali Process

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🚨 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://tinyurl.com/kexpudmj

🚨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://buff.ly/SRaulbk

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.

🚨 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://tinyurl.com/kexpudmj

🔎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 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 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 University Vietnam 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.

The RSO was pleased to welcome Nicole Batch, Head of Migration Development at the Australian Red Cross 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.

🌊 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
IOM - UN Migration 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://tinyurl.com/53skxsvx

🚨 Call for applications now open! 🚨

🌐 Are you working in operational air border management or in an analytical role supporting frontline decision-making?

🔎 Apply today to attend the Workshop on Border Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific: Advancing Modern Border Management Through Systems-Based Approaches, taking place in Jeju, Republic of Korea, over 9–12 June 2026.

Jointly held by Unitar CIFAL Jeju and the RSO, the workshop will focus on various modern border management topics such as identity verification, document examination, biometrics, risk management, screening, and cross-border collaboration.

📅 A limited number of places are available for selected applicants from eligible Bali Process Member States.

📅 Learn more and apply by 10 May 2026, 23:55 KST: https://rso.baliprocess.net/rso-cifal-workshop/

🚨New report launch🚨

Trafficking for forced criminality into cyber-scam centres remains an evolving challenge across Southeast Asia. Women experience a distinct landscape of vulnerability in this context.

New research released by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) and the RSO exposes the realities faced by women trafficked into cyber-scam centres across Southeast Asia.

The report, Gender, technology and trafficking in persons: Women’s experiences of forced criminality in Southeast Asia’s cyber scam centres, draws on regional focus groups, consultations with 86 stakeholders and interviews with survivors of trafficking into cyber-scam centres.

Key findings from the research:
🔎 Women and girls are most often recruited from people they trust rather than anonymous online advertisements
🔎 Traffickers deliberately exploit personal relationships to lower suspicion
🔎 Women in cyber-scam centres are forced to carry out large‑scale online fraud, including romance investment scams, often under constant surveillance, extreme working hours and threat of punishment

Download the full report: https://lnkd.in/gpef334n

Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gF4J8-Sy