This first set of Bali Process Policy Guides introduces policymakers and practitioners on how to implement international legal obligations to criminalize migrant smuggling at the domestic level.

Since its inception in 2002, the Bali Process on People Smuggling, Trafficking in Persons and Related Transnational Crime (Bali Process) has effectively raised regional awareness of the consequences of people smuggling, trafficking in persons and related transnational crime, and also developed and implemented strategies and practical cooperation in response. At the Fifth Bali Process Regional Ministerial Conference in April 2013, Ministers agreed that policy guides be developed as voluntary, non-binding reference tools to assist policy makers and practitioners to criminalize people smuggling and trafficking in persons.