The Regional Hub for South-East Asia provides anti-corruption and financial crime advisory services and technical assistance to ASEAN States Parties and Mongolia. The Hub also supports the implementation of the 2024-2027 road map underlying the Regional Platform for South-East Asia and its priority thematic areas identified by the platform’s 12 participating countries (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Viet Nam).
Building on this and as an extension of the Hub’s work, the Regional Illicit Finance Fusion Center for South-East Asia strengthens the region’s ability to address financial and economic crime by supporting Member States’ anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism financing efforts in the region.
The Hub’s anti-corruption and financial crime efforts are aligned with key regional initiatives and frameworks, including ASEAN-PAC (ASEAN Parties Against Corruption), a regional framework aimed at addressing corruption, the Asia / Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) and the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF). IPEF provides a platform for regional collaboration around economic growth and consists of 14 countries that together represent 40 per cent of global GDP. It is organized around four main pillars, with UNODC supporting work on pillar IV on tax and anti-corruption.
The Hub is also aligned with the South East Asia Justice Network (SEAJust), a judicial cooperation network that helps facilitate communication between central authorities for mutual legal assistance matters. On asset recovery, the Hub’s work complements the Asset Recovery Interagency Network – Asia Pacific (ARIN-AP), which helps to exchange information on individuals, companies and assets to recover the proceeds of crime.
The Hub recognizes the important role played by civil society, academia, media, youth, private sector and others and provides ongoing support to two networks:
Southeast Asia’s Journalists Against Corruption Network (JAC) in partnership with the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism.
The Hub is based in Bangkok, Thailand. Anti-corruption and financial crime experts are located throughout the region, including in Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines and Viet Nam.
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