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.