Identification mission for rule of law and security in Indonesia

The Indonesia Country Strategy Paper 2002-2006 (“CSP”) states that Community policy should contribute to developing and consolidating democracy and the rule of law and encouraging respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. Furthermore, the National Indicative Programme 2005-2006 (“NIP”) has identified the rule of law and security as a priority to complement and reinforce the support provided to governance and the reform of the judiciary under the National Indicative Plan 2002-2004.

Security concerns are manifold in post-Reformasi Indonesia. These issues are directly related to the performance of the Indonesian law implementing agencies and interlinked with the rest of the country’s reform agenda.

The global objective of the assignment was to carry out the identification of the EC – Indonesia co-operation programme in the field of rule of law and security. The specific objective was to deliver a Final Report, including a detailed Formulation Proposal with all relevant annexes for a suitable EU support programme. The overall objective of the programme itself should be to strengthen the rule of law and security in Indonesia through improving the quality of relations and co-ordination between law enforcement agencies as well as enhancing their capacity, with the specific objectives of improving the quality of relations and co-ordination between law implementing agencies, the capacity of the law implementing agencies, the quality of services in the Courts, the access to justice, and the capacity to fight against trans-national crime, in particular terrorism.