
The Regional Support Office of the Bali Process (RSO) works to strengthen cooperation across Member States to translate ambitions into action and real-world impact – through knowledge transfer, capacity-building and the sharing of information and best practice.
The RSO is the only cooperation mechanism of its kind in the Asia Pacific region and draws on policy knowledge, technical expertise and operational experience from Bali Process Members and other key stakeholders to develop practical initiatives, and to share these across Member States.
The RSO brings practitioners across Member States together through a regular programme of training activities, events, workshops and roundtables, designed to help Member States stay ahead of new and emerging issues and to work collaboratively to develop responses and solutions.
Governance and Reporting
The RSO operates with strategic guidance from the Bali Process Senior Official Co-Chairs, and Senior Officials in the Governments of Australia and Indonesia. Day to day operations are overseen by two RSO Co-Managers from the Australian and Indonesian Governments.
The RSO produces a Biannual Strategy, an Annual Work Plan and Annual Report, Monthly Reports, a quarterly newsletter RSO Highlights, and a six-monthly narrative finance report.
The RSO is an open structure welcoming assignments of government officials and other contributions from Bali Process Member States.
New projects proposed by members will be considered by the RSO Co-Managers, and with strategic guidance provided by the Bali Process Co-Chairs.
The RSO Co-Managers report on a biannual basis to the Bali-Process Co-Chairs. The Co-Managers also report to the Steering Group and the Ad-Hoc Group and full Bali Process membership at Senior Officials’ Meetings and Ministerial Conferences.

David Scott, RSO Co-Manager (Australia) and Sukmo Yuwono, RSO Co-Manager (Indonesia)
Engage with the RSO
The RSO welcomes expressions of interest and proposals for activity from across the Bali Process membership and regional actors working to address trafficking in persons, people smuggling and related transnational crime. Opportunities to support the RSO’s work include:
- expressing interest in collaboration on new or existing initiatives,
- proposing new projects for bilateral, multilateral or regional collaboration,
- provision of direct funding to the RSO’s work, or in-kind support for new or existing initiatives,
- seconding a government official or non-government national to the RSO to undertake project-based work.
Bali Process Member States are invited to share new proposals for engagement by contacting the RSO. Proposals are considered by the RSO Co-Managers, in consultation with key stakeholders.
