Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of IndonesiaįOREWORD BY THE GENERAL CHAIRMAN OF SENA WANGI And I wish you every success in this and all your future undertakings. To the delegations from ASEAN countries that have enthusiastically joined the Puppetry Festival, I bid you all a hearty welcome. I hope that it will lead to the birth and growth of an ASEAN Puppetry Association so that three will be more endeavours like this Festival. The ASEAN Puppetry Festival is therefore an initiative in the framework of the ASEAN Sociocultural Community, which focuses on the virtues and attractions of our region, and promotes the growth of an ASEAN cultural identity. The Indonesian population planning programme succeeded because, among others, it made excellent use of the form of puppetry called Wayang Kulit. It has also been a medium of social education. Since ancient times puppet plays have been a major form of entertainment in our region. Puppetry is a part and parcel of the ASEAN cultural identity. It is in this spirit that I congratulate and commend the Indonesian National Wayang Secretariat (SENA WANGI) for organizing the First ASEAN Puppetry Festival, which will be held in Jakarta from 29 November to 3 December 2006. Through the ASEAN Sociocultural Community we hope to raise the quality of life of the people of our region by building an ASEAN identity and promoting the ASEAN cultural heritage. All the pillars are equally important, mutually supportive and mutually reinforcing. Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of IndonesiaįOREWORD BY THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIAĪs our ASEAN Leaders declared during their Ninth Summit in Bali in 2003, one of the three pillars of the envisioned ASEAN Community is the ASEAN Socioeconomic Community, the other two being the ASEAN Security Community and the ASEAN Economic. Furthermore I hope the festival will be successful and beneficial to strengthen cooperation in the social and cultural field. I believe this Festival will serve to inspire us all to preserve the noble values contained within puppetry and other items of our traditional cultural heritage, for the pleasure and guidance of present and future generations of our peoples. The ASEAN Puppetry Symposium should also present a valuable opportunity to evaluate the present condition of puppetry in each of our states, and at the same time encourage us to work together on an ongoing basis to preserve and develop this valuable cultural heritage, which is in some areas regretably threatened with extinction due to the pressure of various modern entertainments. This 1st ASEAN Puppetry Festival presents a unique opportunity for all the participants and audiences to witness performances of varieties of traditional and contemporary puppetry found in the ASEAN Member States. Puppetry may well serve as an attractive draw card for “Cultural Tourism” among our ASEAN countries. The puppetry of two ASEAN Member States have been declared Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, namely,the Sbek Thom Khmer Shadow Puppetry of Cambodia (2003) and the Wayang Puppet Theatre of Indonesia (2003). The puppetry of ASEAN is a unique cultural heritage and is indeed an important part of the cultural identities of the ASEAN Member States. We recall that quite some time ago there had been an official recommendation to establish an association to develop and promote ASEAN puppetry in order to promote linkages and networks, as contained in the report of workshops of the role of puppetry as a traditional Media held on the 8th – 11th of September 1998 under the auspices of the ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information (ASEAN COCI) The art and culture of puppetry or wayang exists in various forms in the countries of ASEAN, and forms a part of the Cultural heritage of ASEAN as defined in the ASEAN Declaration on Cultural Heritage signed in Bangkok on 25th July 2000, namely, significant cultural values and concepts, oral and folk heritage… traditional arts and crafts… performing arts, the written heritage and popular cultural heritage. It is a great pleasure to welcome your excellencies the Ambassadors of the ASEAN Member States and of friendly neighbor States, dignitaries, cultural experts and puppetry artists to this 1st ASEAN Puppetry Festival 2006. FOREWORD BY THE MINISTER OF CULTURE AND TOURISM OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
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