USAID provides antigraft training

JAKARTA: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is holding a one-week training program, aimed at preventing money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism, in Semarang, Central Java.

The training course, designed by USAID's financial crime prevention project, was opened on Monday in cooperation with Indonesia's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).

The program is aimed at supporting Indonesia's efforts to promote its anti-money laundering and anticorruption regime, said a press statement from the U.S. Embassy here.

It said senior professionals and officials from banks' compliance departments, Bank Indonesia, the FIU, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK), the Ministry of Finance's Inspectorate General, the National Police, the Attorney General's Office and the courts are attending the training course.

The program is part of a US$3.2 million, USAID project designed to strengthen the linkages between the FIU and organizations in Indonesia with their counterparts abroad in preventing and detecting financial crimes and corruption. --JP