Seminar on 'People Smuggling Trials in Indonesia'
Date: 3 September 2013 (Tuesday)
Time: 10 – 11.30am
Venue: RSIS
Speaker: Dr Melissa Crouch
Post-doctoral Fellow, Law Faculty, National University of Singapore
About the Seminar:
This seminar sought to address the critical need for greater knowledge and understanding of how the contemporary Indonesian legal system is dealing with the crime of people smuggling. While incidents of people smuggling have increased across the region, little is known about how Indonesia, as one of the central departure points for asylum seekers intending to travel on to Australia, is addressing this issue. This presentation outlined the relevant legal framework and critically discussed its implementation and interpretation by the courts through a survey of court cases from 2007–2012. It attempted to highlight the way in which regional efforts to increase the scope and depth of cooperation to combat people smuggling must recognise and take into account the progress made by, as well as the challenges confronting, law enforcement agencies in prosecuting people smugglers in Indonesian courts. The presentation was based on a policy paper on Trials of People Smugglers in Indonesia: 2007-2012 (co-authored with Dr Antje Missbach, the University of Melbourne).
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About the Speaker:
Dr Melissa Crouch is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Law Faculty, the National University of Singapore. In July-August 2012, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden. From 2011-2012, she was a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne. Melissa has published widely in peer-reviewed journals such as the Sydney Law Review, Asian Studies Review and the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. She has a forthcoming book on Law and Religion in Indonesia: Conflict and the Courts in West Java (Routledge). She is one of the Editors of the Australian Journal of Asian Law.
Posted on: 3/9/2013 10:00:00 AM |
Topic: Internal and Cross-Border Conflict
