Key points:
- With diverse transboundary links in environmental crimes increasingly prominent, there is a need to identify tools to enhance international or regional cooperation in order to strengthen forest enforcement.
- Mutual legal assistance (MLA) has particular potential to facilitate cooperation across jurisdictions.
- Provisions on dual criminality and predicate offenses often limit the scope for MLA on forest-related crimes, both within Indonesia and in partner countries.
- Proactive establishment of bilateral MLA agreements could strengthen MLA use, including with countries where the financiers and traders often reside and bank.
- Existing platforms provide opportunities to operationalize country commitments to international cooperation on environmental topics.
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Publication year
2014
Authors
Sinaga, A.C.; Phelps, J.; Trisasongko, D.; Rahayu, M.K.
Language
English
Geographic
Indonesia
