USAID provides antigraft training

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