Regional Support Office of the Bali Process
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Regional Support Office of the Bali Process
@baliprocessrso.bsky.social
Strengthening cooperation and dialogue among 49 Bali Process Members to address people smuggling, trafficking in persons, and related transnational crime.
Challenges in addressing irregular migration, people smuggling and human trafficking challenges are growing in scale and complexity. With challenges, come opportunities to enhance regional cooperation and innovation.
September 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
📢Closing on Monday

The RSO is recruiting for a Consultant–Executive & Administrative Support. This key role will support the RSO Co-Managers in coordinating meetings, managing travel, liaising w/ stakeholders, & ensuring smooth operations across the office.

Apply 08 September: buff.ly/6WaHIWc
September 5, 2025 at 8:10 AM
📢One week left to apply

The RSO is recruiting for a Consultant – Executive & Administrative Support. This key role will support the RSO Co-Managers in coordinating meetings, managing travel, liaising w/ stakeholders, & ensuring smooth operations across the office.

Apply 08 Sept: buff.ly/6WaHIWc
September 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The RSO held a series of courtesy visits with government counterparts in Manila, the Philippines—exploring opportunities to collaborate and coordinate activities ahead of the Philippines’ 2026 Chairmanship for ASEAN.
August 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Last week, the RSO took part in the 14th Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration (ADFM) in Bangkok, Thailand.

With 123 million people displaced globally and humanitarian needs in the region continuing to grow, the dialogue underscored the urgency of innovative and practical solutions to displacement.
August 29, 2025 at 8:12 AM
🤝🌏 The RSO was in Jakarta last week for the RSO Member State Spotlight—Indonesia; a week-long series of capacity building and policy dialogue activities, bringing together regional counterparts across a range of priority issues.
August 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
As transnational organised crime groups continue to exploit online platforms, generative AI, and other emerging technologies to facilitate trafficking in persons into cyber-scam centres, law enforcement needs to adapt to keep pace and effectively disrupt transnational organised crime groups.
August 29, 2025 at 2:40 AM
📢 New job alert

The RSO is recruiting for a Consultant– Executive & Administrative Support. This role will support the RSO Co-Managers in coordinating meetings, managing travel, liaising w/ stakeholders, & ensuring smooth operations across the office.

Apply 08 September GMT+7 hours: rb.gy/iompvq
August 27, 2025 at 6:04 AM
🚨 NEW RESEARCH
Cyber-scam centres in Southeast Asia generate billions annually — targeting victims worldwide and exploiting trafficked workers. Many have evolved into transnational networks linking fraud, trafficking, money laundering, and illegal gambling.
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August 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The RSO extends its gratitude to the Royal Thai Government Department of International Organizations for extending an invitation to discuss the RSO 2024-26 Work Plan and opportunities for synergy and cooperation in months ahead.
July 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🌏 The Bali Process Tabletop Exercise (TTX) has officially kicked off, bringing together all working groups in a demonstration of regional collaboration and shared responsibility to addressing people smuggling, trafficking in persons and related transnational crime.
June 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🌍 In an interconnected world, natural and humanitarian disasters are not isolated events. For people already facing hardship in uncertain environments, the shock of a crisis can force a difficult but necessary move to seek refuge elsewhere.
June 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
David Scott, RSO Co-Manager (Australia), met with colleagues at the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Viet Nam on the sidelines of the Border Control Agency Management Programme (BCAMP) held over 11–12 June in Hanoi.
June 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM
🇻🇳 The RSO was in Hanoi this week for the Border Control Agency Management Program (BCAMP). RSO Co-Manager David Scott met w/ Vietnamese partners, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Public Security, Immigration Department, & People's Police Academy (PPA)
June 13, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Malaysia's economic and political stability and established diaspora communities make it a key destination country in Southeast Asia, hosting between 1.23–1.46 million migrant workers in irregular situations and 190,370 registered refugees and asylum seekers. 🇲🇾
June 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
💡Empowering frontline immigration officials with the knowledge, skills, & networks they need is key to address irregular migration & protecting people on the move. Marking 15 years of #BCAMP, David Scott, RSO Co-Manager (Australia) presented on realities of trafficking in persons & people smuggling
June 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
💡In order to develop information campaigns & public messaging to prevent individuals from undertaking dangerous #irregular journeys, it is crucial to understand how persons at risk of #irregular migration & their origin communities perceive (irregular) migration, & their #informationneeds
June 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
📢 One week left to apply!

The RSO is recruiting for a new Programme Manager (International Migration Strategies) to lead the establishment of a senior policy group on irregular migration in the Andaman Sea.

⏰ Apply before 8 June: buff.ly/DvKPsG0
June 2, 2025 at 6:24 AM
An op-ed by RSO Co-Managers Fuad Adriansyah (Indonesia) and David Scott (Australia) published in the @Diplomat_APAC today discusses the devastating human cost of legal invisibility for individuals, and champions the momentum for change in #SoutheastAsia.

Read the full op-ed here: buff.ly/RYr2LjX
May 30, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The RSO 2025 Members' Engagement Function in Kuala Lumpur brought together regional actors from government, civil society and international organisations in Malaysia’s Chairmanship Year for #ASEAN, strengthening connections across those working to address people smuggling & transnational crime.
May 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
📢 New job alert!

The RSO is recruiting for a new Programme Manager (International Migration Strategies) to lead the establishment of a senior policy group on irregular migration in the Andaman Sea.

⏰ Apply before 8 June 2025, Bangkok time: rso.baliprocess.net/rso-networks...
May 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
✈️ Last week, the RSO participated in the #BudapestProcess Working Group meeting on Returns & Reintegration, in Istanbul, Turkiye—as part of a long-standing relationship between the RSO & the Budapest Process, & recognising overlapping memberships & challenges for the Budapest and Bali Processes
May 22, 2025 at 4:55 AM
How can understanding the drivers and consequences of irregular migration help strengthen investigations into serious crime? RSO presented to law enforcement officers at the IMOSC XVIII Programme, drawing on the findings of an assessment on Community Perceptions and Information Needs.
May 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
🚨 Last call for applications!

Tomorrow is the final day to apply for the Programme Manager (Information Sharing and Regional Responses) position with the RSO in Bangkok, Thailand.

Don’t miss your chance to join our team! 🔗 Apply here: rso.baliprocess.net/rso-networks...
May 21, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The Bali Process 19th Steering Group Meeting and 18th Senior Officials’ Meeting are taking place this week in Bangkok.🌐
May 20, 2025 at 9:45 AM