Malaysian and Indonesian police hold talks on cross-border crime.

Malaysian and Indonesian police hold talks on cross-border crime.

Associated Press Kuala Lumpur

Malaysian and Indonesian police on the shared island of Borneo met on Monday for talks on cross-border crime including drug trafficking, baby-smuggling and illegal logging, officials said.

Senior officers from Malaysia's Sarawak state met counterparts from Indonesia's Kalimantan in Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian territory about 960 kilometers (600 miles) west of Kuala Lumpur, a spokeswoman said.

Sarawak Police Commissioner Mohamad Yusoff Jaafar said the officials discussed ways to tighten controls on illegal cross border trade, which he said included drugs, babies and domestic workers, the national Bernama news agency reported.

Sarawak shares a 1,200-kilometer (750-mile) land border with Kalimantan, which mostly runs through dense rain forest in Borneo's remote interior and is lightly policed.

Bernama cited Mohamad Yusoff as saying that walls would be built along stretches of the boundary that are most often used by illegal immigrants or encroaching smugglers.

Every year thousands of people illegally enter Malaysia, one of Southeast Asia's wealthiest countries, from neighboring countries Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. Most are looking for work, and many fall prey to black market operators in laboring and domestic service industries.