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AUSTRALIA ACKNOWLEDGES RI POLICE`S SUCCESS IN CURBING PEOPLE SMUGGLING
Brisbane, Nov 16 (ANTARA) - Australia acknowledges the success of the Indonesian police in its operations against human smuggling rings.
Australian Minister of Domestic Affairs Brendan O'Conor said in a statement received by ANTARA on Monday the Indonesian police had in the past year successfully foiled at least 88 efforts to smuggle foreign asylum seekers through the country to Australia.
He said the Indonesian police efforts had prevented 2,160 asylum seekers to reach Australian waters.
Australia has seen its committment to bilateral and regional cooperation with neighbouring countries like Indonesia and Malaysia through the Bali Process Forum on efforts against human smuggling, human trafficking and other trans-national crimes.
Under the context Brendan O'Connor said the Australian Federal Police (AFP) would continue to support its working partners in the region with regard to stopping the action of human smuggling rings.
"The close cooperation has resulted in a number of arrests and abortion of human smuggling attempts in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka," he said.
He said in Australia since September 2008 meanwhile a total of 61 smugglers of foreign asylum seekers had been sent to jails, including 56 crew of the boats that carried the asylum seekers and five members of human smuggling networks based in Australia.
The onslaught of asylum seekers' boats since September 2008 has triggered a strong political debate in Australia.
According to Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd "global security factors" are the drivers behind the emergence of new cases while the opposition had blamed it on the federal government's change of policy.
Under former prime minister John Howard Australia imposed a "Pacific Solution" to deal with the matter. Based on the policy asylum seekers caught were sent to Nauru Island and those eligible would be given temporary protection visas.
The policy was abolished by the current Labor Party government and for its replacement the government of Prime Minister Rudd promoted the function of the immigration detention center on Christmas Island and extended permanent resident visas to those who were given a refugee status.
Every year Australia receives at least 13,500 refugees.***
Australian Minister of Domestic Affairs Brendan O'Conor said in a statement received by ANTARA on Monday the Indonesian police had in the past year successfully foiled at least 88 efforts to smuggle foreign asylum seekers through the country to Australia.
He said the Indonesian police efforts had prevented 2,160 asylum seekers to reach Australian waters.
Australia has seen its committment to bilateral and regional cooperation with neighbouring countries like Indonesia and Malaysia through the Bali Process Forum on efforts against human smuggling, human trafficking and other trans-national crimes.
Under the context Brendan O'Connor said the Australian Federal Police (AFP) would continue to support its working partners in the region with regard to stopping the action of human smuggling rings.
"The close cooperation has resulted in a number of arrests and abortion of human smuggling attempts in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka," he said.
He said in Australia since September 2008 meanwhile a total of 61 smugglers of foreign asylum seekers had been sent to jails, including 56 crew of the boats that carried the asylum seekers and five members of human smuggling networks based in Australia.
The onslaught of asylum seekers' boats since September 2008 has triggered a strong political debate in Australia.
According to Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd "global security factors" are the drivers behind the emergence of new cases while the opposition had blamed it on the federal government's change of policy.
Under former prime minister John Howard Australia imposed a "Pacific Solution" to deal with the matter. Based on the policy asylum seekers caught were sent to Nauru Island and those eligible would be given temporary protection visas.
The policy was abolished by the current Labor Party government and for its replacement the government of Prime Minister Rudd promoted the function of the immigration detention center on Christmas Island and extended permanent resident visas to those who were given a refugee status.
Every year Australia receives at least 13,500 refugees.***
