REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BEIJING -- Indonesia supports the Asia-Pacific anti-graft network, whose program is being discussed and formulated at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting here from November 5-12.

"This is very good and we will support it through an exchange of information and experience," Indonesia's foreign minister, Retno Lestari Priansari Marsudi, told Antara following an APEC Ministerial Meeting here on Friday evening (7/11).

Indonesia has experience in dealing with corruption and has handled it better and more professionally than have others. "Moreover, we have the presence of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), which has also shown a positive performance in handling corruption cases," she said.

She also said the Asia Pacific anti-graft network would maximize anti-graft efforts.

Asia Pacific countries will support a plan to nominate China as the location of the headquarters of the regional anti-graft network.

China has intensified its own domestic campaign against corruption abroad to cut off escape routes for corruption suspects.

Twenty-one economies in the Asia Pacific region plan to exchange information about corruption through a network named Act-Net.

Act-Net is planned to open cross border information flows between law enforcement agencies.

The network, however, cannot yet be considered as strong as Interpol, a source said.

The source said the Act-Net training program and communication line would be implemented based on an agreement, such as the UN Convention Against Corruption that obliges signatories to cooperate in all areas.

In the first Act-Net meeting last August, representatives from anti-graft institutions from several countries shared ideas on how to determine the next step in developing Act-Net.

The US and Indonesian delegations, for example, have explained about detailed joint operations in the investigation of bribery schemes on contracts involving people in the two countries and taking them to court.

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