JAKARTA - Indonesians travelling abroad will increasingly be carrying new state-of-the-art passports incorporating forgery-resistant printing techniques, fingerprint records, facial and retina prints - all in conformance with International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standards. The ICAO standards, expected to be mandatory on passports for all international travellers by 2009, will be introduced in every new Indonesian passports issued from May 1, 2005, according to a report in Bali Update (www.balidiscovery.com). Existing Indonesian passports without the sophisticated new features will continue to be used by Indonesian travellers until their current validity expires. Imam Santoso, the director-general of Immigration, has promised that the cost of new passports will remain unchanged. The new passport bearing an embossed Indonesian flag on the cover together with the national emblem of a mythical Garuda bird will bear a number of special paper and light-reflective features intended to make forgeries of the document extremely difficult.