BAKIN - State Intelligence Coordinating Agency
The State Intelligence Coordinating Agency [BAKIN - Badan Koordinasi Intelijen Negara] is the central intelligence-gathering body, which studies both domestic and foreign intelligence gathered by its own personnel as well as by the army and the police. BAKIN is directly under the control of the president and maintains its own communications network outside the civilian and military administrations. BAKIN is normally headed by an army lieutenant general. Armed forces officers are sometimes seconded to BAKIN for special duties. It was probable that BAKIN, responsible for intelligence gathering relating to defense matters, was strengthened considerably under the 1992 reorganization and operated many of the security and intelligence functions under the BAKORSTANAS system that were formerly performed by KOPKAMTIB.
