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