 Instead, the organization conducted a nationwide election observation mission called "Bantay ng Bayan" ("sentinels of the people").Presently, NAMFREL is also active internationally, its officers and volunteers having worked as trainers, observer team members, election administrators and resource persons in 35 countries, and have sent its volunteers as the official Philippine observer delegation to Cambodia during the 1998 parliamentary elections there, as well as in Indonesia in 1999 for the Presidential elections after the fall of Suharto.In 1998, NAMFREL representatives attended the International IDEA conference in Copenhagen.