PUTRAJAYA, Feb 10 — The Home Ministry (KDN) will focus on cross-border crime and cybercrime throughout Malaysia's Asean chairmanship for 2025, said its minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail.
Speaking to the press after the KDN monthly gathering for February today, he said the ministry will be involved in the security cluster encompassing 10 key agendas, which will serve as a guide to all meetings at the officer, the senior officer, and the ministry levels.
"Our focus will, among others, be on cross-border crime, which involves intelligence sharing, capacity building and joint operations.
"Speaking of cross-border crime, we admit the fact that neither we nor any individual Asean nation will be able to solve it alone. We need to forge a (regional) collaboration,” Saifuddin said.
He added that cybercrime, including online fraud, had surged not only in Malaysia but globally as well.
"That is why the Asean meeting on the security cluster would not be complete if this topic is not looked into by the Asean member countries,” Saifuddin said.
The Asean Ministers’ Meeting on Security is scheduled to be held in Melaka in September.
Malaysia officially assumed the 2025 Asean Chair on January 1, the fifth time since the establishment of Asean in 1967.
Malaysia was previously the Chair of Asean in 1977, 1997, 2005, and 2015.
— Bernama
