JAKARTA, Sept. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- The US government offered assistance of approximately 750,000 US dollars to support Indonesia's effort to prosecute transnational crimes such as terrorism and money laundering, the US embassy said in a statement Monday.

    The assistance will be handed to the Attorney General's Office's task force against transnational crimes.

    Under the letter of arrangement signed Monday, the United States will support that effort over the next two years with new equipment, computers, and other materials, and will provide training in the handling of terrorism, money laundering, cyber crime and other transnational crime cases," it said.

    In addition, the US government will provide prosecutors from the US Department of Justice to assist in the institutional development of the task force. Enditem