Local fishermen are constantly concerned about their safety because they repeatedly face intimidation from bigger and better equipped foreign fishing vessels.
Drug cartels are continuing, in fact expanding, their operations, in the midst of the pandemic by changing their modus operandi to take advantage of legitimate supply chains.
Indonesia is keen to install Bakamla as the coordinating body as currently there are several agencies with similar and overlapping roles.
Pirates armed with guns and knives are abducting bigger groups of seafarers at further distances off the West African coast.
SD Reza, our Indonesia correspondent, attended the briefing by Muhammad Lutfi, Indonesian ambassador to the US.
A new report finds that active enforcement against foreign bribery significantly decreased since 2018.
A global operation involving 16 countries has resulted in the arrest of 20 individuals suspected of belonging to the QQAAZZ money laundering network.
Economic decline, along with a restrictive lockdown, left the freight sector in a vulnerable situation.
Latest figures show a rise in piracy and armed robbery on the world’s seas in the first nine months of 2020, with a 40% increase in the number of kidnappings reported in the Gulf of Guinea.
90% of respondents surveyed during the crisis believe that disruption poses a risk to ethical business conduct.
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