Cybersecurity
The 3rd ASEAN-Japan Cybercrime Dialogue
January 18, 2019
- The 3rd ASEAN-Japan Cybercrime Dialogue will be held on January 23 and 24 in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam.
- The 3rd Dialogue will be co-chaired by H.E. Mr. Eiji Yamamoto, Ambassador in charge of International Cooperation for Countering Terrorism and International Organized Crime; and Mr. Pengiran Muhamad Sazali Pengiran Yakob, Permanent Secretary [Security and Enforcement], the Prime Minister's Office, Brunei Darussalam. The Dialogue will be attended by officials from Japan, all the ASEAN Member States, the ASEAN Secretariat and some International Organizations.
- This Dialogue was inaugurated in 2014 as a follow-up to the commitment made at the ASEAN-Japan Commemorative Summit in December 2013. The 3rd Dialogue is held to confirm the importance of Convention on Cybercrime (Budapest Convention) with ASEAN Member States, to exchange information on trends and lessons learned to combat cybercrime, and to discuss ASEAN-Japan cooperation on cybercrime, such as capacity building to fight against cybercrime and the direction of concrete activities to be funded by Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF).