Past Events
Combating Child Pornography in Southeast Asia – Strategies, Challenges and Regional Cooperation
Agenda
Thursday, 10 November 2016
Welcoming words
Henning Glaser, Director, German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG), Faculty of Law, Thammasat University
Karl-Peter Schönfisch, Director, Laos/Thailand Office, Hanns Seidel Foundation
International perspectives:
Afrooz Kaviani Johnson, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office
Bindu Sharma, International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children Singapore
Country perspective: Malaysia
Ong Chin Lan, Interpol, Malaysia
Dr. Geshina Ayu Mat Saat, Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation
Elina Abdul Mubin, Outreach and Corporate Communication Department, CyberSecurity Malaysia
Country perspective: Philippines, Cambodia
Anna Marie C. Mendoza, Department of Justice, Republic of the Philippines
Moden Yi, APLE Cambodia
Country perspective: Indonesia
Andy Ardian, ECPAT Indonesia
Maria Advianti, Indonesia Commission on Child Protection
Friday, 11 November 2016
Country perspective: Thailand
Pol. Capt. Apichart Hattasin, Thailand Internet Crime Against Children (TICAC), Royal Thai Police
Tania Anguelova, ECPAT International
Report
On 10 and 11 November 2016 CPG in cooperation with Hanns Seidel Foundation hosted a conference on “Combating Child Pornography in Southeast Asia – Strategies, Challenges and Regional Cooperation“ at Windsor Suites Hotel Sukhumvit in Bangkok. The conference provided a forum to discuss various perspectives on the issue of sexual exploitation of children, starting with an international overview and then focusing on several Southeast Asian countries. The countries dealt with in particular were Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand. The conference was opened with some welcoming words by Henning Glaser, Director of CPG and Karl-Peter Schönfisch, Director of Hanns Seidel foundation. The first presentation by Afrooz Kaviani Johnson, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office, provided a general overview of child protection in the digital age. Following from that, three speakers from Malaysia elaborated on the situation there and point- ed to the specific issues they are facing in their work. The speakers were Ong Chin Lan, Principal Assistant Director Sexual, Women and Child Investigation Division (D11) of Malaysia, Dr. Geshina Ayu Mat Saat, Malaysia Crime Prevention Foundation and Elina Abdul Mubin, Outreach and Corporate Communication Department, CyberSecurity Malaysia.
The country perspective “Philippines” was provided by Anna Marie C. Mendoza from the Department of Justice, Republic of the Philippines. Moden Yi from APLE Cambodia provided an insight into the Cambodian perspective regarding the fight against online child exploitation. The Indonesian perspective was presented by Maria Advianti, Indonesia Commission of Child Protection and Andy Ardian from ECPAT Indonesia, before Apichart Hattasin from Thailand Internet Crime Against Children (TICAC) of the Royal Thai Police gave a presentation about the current situation in Thailand. Tania Anguelova from ECPAT International presented an upcoming global database online system provided by ECPAT International on which information on the legal situation in several countries from all over the world regarding child exploitation is easily accessible. Each presentation was followed by a Q&A session that offered the audience the opportunity to raise additional questions and concerns. At the end, all speakers participated in a concluding discussion panel. As a final result, the participants together with CPG agreed to enforce transnational mutual exchange and collaboration to tackle this hugely important issue together.
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