RI and Korean police cement relations

RI and Korean police cement relations

JAKARTA: The National Police and its South Korean counterpart
signed on Monday an agreement to collaborate in law enforcement,
including in transnational crime prevention and information
sharing, while pledging to protect each others' citizens staying
in both countries.

Police chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar said the fact that many
Indonesian citizens worked and stayed in South Korea as well as
increasing Korean investment in Indonesia necessitated stronger
ties between the police of the two countries.

South Korean police chief Comr. Gen. Choi Key Moon said that
the agreement allowed his country's police to learn a lot about
counterterrorism from Indonesian police as they had demonstrated
their ability to crack down on terrorists, as shown in the case
of the 2002 Bali bombings, which killed 202 people, including
several South Koreans. --JP