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Official launch of the Regional Project on Building Capacity and Improving Cooperation Mechanisms on Countering the Financing of Terrorism in Southeast Asia

3 - 4 June 2024
Valletta, Malta

The IIJ is excited to announce the official launch of the Regional Project on Building Capacity and Improving Cooperation Mechanisms on Countering the Financing of Terrorism in Southeast Asia, a multi-year, multi-stakeholder project aiming to strengthen institutional capacities of criminal justice and financial practitioners in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam to effectively and sustainably counter illicit financial flows in the Indo-Pacific region and decrease the risks linked to the financing of terrorism.

The Official Launch mapped out the goals and major components of the project, establishing and reinforcing working relations with all key stakeholders, and encouraged participating countries to identify and involve all relevant CFT actors in the project to achieve maximum sustainable results. It also addressed some of the existing challenges that are common for most countries in the region, such as integrating human rights compliant approaches in the development and implementation of CFT measures, fostering public-private cooperation in mitigating terrorist financing threats, and countering the use of virtual assets by terrorist organisations to finance their operations.

The project implementation will follow the Plan of Action, which was drafted by the IIJ project team in close coordination with authorities of participating countries and international partners delivering technical assistance programmes in Southeast Asia, and reviewed by the country delegations at the official launch.

The project will be implemented over 27 months and will comprise three Pillars: (1) Foundational courses on investigating, prosecuting and seizing assets from crimes related to the terrorist financing and other transnational crimes (FIN-CTAC); (2) Thematic regional workshops on key and emerging CFT issues; and (3) Developing a contextualised good practices manual for CFT authorities of participating countries.

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