JCLEC gets Rp 120b grant from Holland

JCLEC gets Rp 120b grant from Holland

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

The Netherlands' top counter terrorism official will visit
Indonesia this week within the framework of Dutch support for the
Jakarta Center for Law Enforcement Cooperation (JCLEC) located
Semarang, Central Java, the Dutch embassy in Jakarta announced on
Monday.

"The Netherlands Special Ambassador on Counter-Terrorism
Ronald Mollinger will arrive in Jakarta on Tuesday. Then, he will
go to Semarang on Wednesday to lay the first stone of the JCLEC
residential quarters for students and teachers," embassy
spokeswoman Usha Gopie told The Jakarta Post on Monday.

Gopie said that the residential quarters will be built with a
grant of 5.3 euros (Rp 65 billion) from the Netherlands
government. Another Dutch grant of 5 million euros (Rp 61.3
billion) will be provided to the center later this year for
capacity building and curriculum development.

JCLEC was opened in July 2004 as part of a joint initiative
between Indonesia and Australia. However, the Netherlands has
emerged as the second largest contributor to the JCLEC after
Australia.

The main objectives of the center are to improve operational
expertise of law enforcement personnel in Indonesia and other
countries, and to share information and experience. It will also
work closely with other similar bodies such as the South-East
Asian Regional Centre for Counter-Terrorism in Kuala Lumpur and
the International Law Enforcement Academy in Bangkok.