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Bali summit agrees on need for terrorism risk assessment
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On alert -- Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) head Muhammad Yusuf (right) and Australian Transaction Report and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) CEO Paul Jevtovic talk to journalists in a press conference during the second Counterterrorism Financing Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali, on Wednesday. (thejakartapost.com/Zul Trio Anggono)
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ountry representatives attending the second Counterterrorism Financing Summit have agreed to assess regional terrorism risks, which will be focused on terrorism financing methods and channels.
"This summit has achieved the same perception, wishes and goodwill that there is a need to prevent, identify and combat terrorism financing. As a country consisting of thousands of islands, Indonesia in particular is really worried about terrorist activities,” said Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) head Muhammad Yusuf on Wednesday.
“By collaborating with Australia and other countries in the region, it will be easy for us to overcome the problem, especially terrorist financing," he went on.
Indonesia and Australia are co-hosting the Counterterrorism Financing Summit, which is taking place in Nusa Dua, Bali, from Monday to Thursday.
Yusuf further said the PPATK had discovered a huge amount of money, suspected to be used to fund terrorism, flowing into Indonesia from other countries.
According to PPATK data, he said, the money came from at least 10 countries. He refused to give more details, specify the amount of money or name the originating countries.
Yusuf said some of the money had been distributed for charity and social activities and that many organizations receiving it were not aware that their funding sources were terrorist organizations. (ebf)
