| A regional anti-terrorism centre will be set up in Indonesia following a conference to be co-hosted by Indonesia and Australia in Bali next month, Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda said Tuesday. The conference "would lead to the establishment of a regional transnational crime centre in Indonesia, the establishment of a central forensic laboratory and the establishment of a training centre of anti-terrorist units", Wirayuda said. He told a press conference that the objective of the regional ministerial conference on Feb 4-5 was to "translate political commitments into concrete co-operation". The foreign ministry’s director for international security and disarmament, Hamzah Thayeb, said the anti-terrorism centre would form part of the transnational crime centre. He said the idea followed the successful co-operation between Australia and Indonesia in the investigation into the Bali bombings of October 2002 which killed 202 people. The Bali meeting is expected to be attended by ministers from 10 Southeast Asian countries plus Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Fiji, East Timor, New Zealand, the United States, Britain, France, Russia and Germany. |