US-Indonesia Collaboration on Asset Recovery
Makassar, Indonesia – The U.S. Department of Justice’s International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) and the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT), in partnership with the Indonesian National Police (INP), hosted a two-day Asset Tracing and Recovery Workshop on September 23–24 in Makassar. Now in its 16th iteration, the program brought together 24 INP investigators and six Attorney General’s Office (AGO) prosecutors from Gorontalo, North Maluku, Central Sulawesi, and Southeast Sulawesi. Led by experts from ICITAP, OPDAT, INP, AGO, Indonesia’s financial intelligence unit and local asset tracing experts, participants gained foundational skills on financial investigations, money laundering laws, forensic digital techniques, asset tracing methods, and inter-agency cooperation, equipping participants with the tools needed to strengthen enforcement against complex financial crimes. The workshop underscored how international cooperation and modern investigative techniques can “follow the money,” helping authorities recover illicit assets and dismantle transnational organized crime groups at their source. (US Embassy press release)