Committee on Culture and Information


During the year under review, the Committee on Cultural and Information (COCI) streamlined and consolidated its wide range of projects and activities in accordance with the approved "Framework of Cooperation in Culture and Information". The Culture Cooperation Programme which comes under-the Framework covers five activities:

1982 ASEAN Culture and Information Cooperation Programme


COCI's on-going projects, to be undertaken annually and rotated among member countries, are:
  1. ASEAN Song Festival

  2. ASEAN Exchange of Radio and Television Artistes

  3. ASEAN Festival of Performing Arts

  4. ASEAN Film Festival

  5. Travelling Exhibition of Paintings and Photographs

  6. ASEAN Film Week

  7. ASEAN Sculputure Symposium

  8. ASEAN Youth Music Workshop

  9. ASEAN Radio and Television Cultural Exchange Programme

  10. Comparative Study of Folk Arts and lndigeneous Architecture in member countries.

In addition to the above-mentioned on-going projects, ten new projects were added, bringing the total number of culture and information projects to 20 for 1982.


Highlights of the ten new projects:

  1. Archaeological Excavation

    Country Coordinator : Indonesia
    The objective is to promote methodology, to raise the standard, and to exchange experience and knowledge in the field of excavation. The project involved the excavation and preservation of the oldest Hindu temple in Indonesia ( Dieng, Central Java ).

  2. ASEAN Traditional Games and Sports

    Country Coordinator : Malaysia
    The objective is to follow up activities of the First Traditional Games and Sports Seminar held in Bangkok on 18-22 February 1980, The activities of this project include : compilation and publication of ASEAN traditional games and sports; a festival of traditional games and sports; research and exchange of information; and exchange of personnel for consultation and information dissemination.

  3. Study of Basic Traditional Dances, Music, Choreography and Visual Arts

    Country Coordinator : Indonesia
    The objective is to study and preserve the basic traditional dances, music, choreography and visual arts of ASEAN countries. According to capability and expertise, each member country would organize a training programme on a selected topic and invite two students or artistes from the other member countries to participate in the activity for four to six months, the first training programme taking place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

  4. ASEAN Kinship through Music

    Country Coordinator : The Philippines
    The objective is to promote cultural kinship and to generate interest in the ASEAN musical heritage. The activities of this project involves an exchange of songs and musical heritage to be aired over radio throughout ASEAN at specific hours of the day.

  5. ASEAN Music Interludes

    Country Coordinator : Singapore
    The objective is for each country to produce a series of three to five-minute filmlets illustrating aspects of culture and to rotate these filmlets amongst them. The activities include the preparation for the organization and coordination of the project and production of filmlets featuring instrumental compositions for exchange and use as music interludes on the TV networks.

  6. Role of Communications in Socio-Cultural Development

    Country Coordinator : Thailand
    The objectives are to promote communications in socio-cultural development, to strengthen cooperation amongst academicians, administrators and practitioners in the area of communications, and to develop an intra-ASEAN programme for training and research in communications. The activities of the project include preparation of research papers/ reports and a regional seminar on the project.

  7. Anthology of ASEAN Literatures

    Country Coordinator : The Philippines
    The objectives are to fill the need for books on ASEAN literature for students, teachers, and literature lovers, to provide the basis for a comparative study and to facilitate exchange of knowledge on such literature. Among the activities lined up for this project are the establishment of national teams to do the selection, translation, and presentation of the literary works of each member country.

  8. ASEAN Youth Painting Workshop and Exhibition

    Country Coordinator : Thailand
    The objectives are to create further cultural understanding, to promote active interest and creativeness in the arts, to provide a forum for artistic expression through paintings, and to promote meaningful interaction amongst the youth of member countries. Activities include preparation to facilitate the coordination of the exhibition and workshops, National Youth Painting Exhibition, Regional Youth Painting Exhibition and Workshop where five selected young painters would work with three masters from the host country to create art works based on the techniques of local masters.

  9. Exchange of Museum Curators of Ethnography

    Country Coordinator : Singapore
    The objectives are to encourage member countries to represent significant artifacts in their national ethnological collections, to provide wider exposure and greater appreciation of the traditional material culture of the region and to have a deeper understanding of the ethnology of the ASEAN countries for a more purposeful cooperation in the field of ethnology. Activities include visits of museum directors from each member country to give talks and lectures for the promotion of better understanding through history and culture.

  10. Training for Radio/TV Broadcasters in the Production of Cultural Programmes

    Country Coordinator : Malaysia
    The objectives are to look into ways in which radio and television could contribute to the preservation of culture and to improve basic skills of radio and television production by utilizing existing technology so as to provide the greatest exposure possible to the cultural art forms indigenous to the region. The activities include a six-week television course for two programme producers/directors fromeach member country in production technique, field research, scripting and music balancing and a three-week radio course for a production team composed of a producer and an audio technician in the same fields of study from each member country.


Listing of COCI projects financed by the ASEAN Cultural Fund from 1982 to 1983


From I June 1982 to 31 May 1983, a total of 29 activities in the fields of culture and information have been financed by the ASEAN Cultural Fund, namely:

I. VISUAL ARTS
  1. Second ASEAN Travelling Exhibition of Paintings and Photographs, 1982

  2. ASEAN Youth Painting Workshop and Exhibition, 1982

  3. National Youth Painting Exhibition, 1983

  4. Dedication Ceremony of First ASEAN Sculpture Symposium, 1982

  5. Second ASEAN Sculpture Symposium, 1983

  6. ASEAN Youth Painting Workshop and Exhibition, 1983

  7. Organizers Meeting of the ASEAN Exhibition of Children's Arts


II. PERFORMING ARTS
  1. First Organizers Meeting of Second ASEAN Youth Music Workshop, 1982.

  2. Second ASEAN Song Festival, 1982

  3. Second Organizers Meeting of Second ASEAN Youth Music Workshop, 1982

  4. Second ASEAN Youth Music Workshop, 1982

  5. Second ASEAN Festival of Performing Arts, 1982

  6. Third ASEAN Exchange of Radio/Television Artistes, 1982

  7. Preparatory Meeting of Fourth ASEAN Exchange of Radio/Television Artistes, 1983

  8. Third ASEAN Festival of Performing Arts, 1983

  9. Preparatory Meeting of the Third ASEAN Song Festival, 1983

  10. Study of Basic Traditional Dance, Music, Choreography and Visual Arts, 1983.


III. LITERARY WORKS

Exchange of Anthology of ASEAN Literature


IV. ASEAN STUDIES
  1. First Seminar on the Study and Documentation on the Use of Cultural Traditional Media, 1982

  2. ASEAN Programme on Archeological Excavation and Conservation of Relics, 1983

  3. Exchange of Museum Curators of Arts, 1983


V. COMMUNICATION MEDIA
  1. ASEAN Film Week, 1982

  2. ASEAN Exchange of Radio Cultural Package Programme, 1982

  3. ASEAN Exchange of Television Cultural Package Programme, 1982

  4. Third ASEAN Seminar on Mass Media/ Exchange of Journalists, 1982

  5. Training of ASEAN Broadcasters in the Production of Cultural Programme, 1982

  6. Preparatory Meeting of the Role of Communications in Socio-Cultural Development, 1982

  7. Preparation of research papers/reports of the Role of Communications in Socio-Cultural Development, 1982

  8. ASEAN Music Interludes, 1982

  9. ASEAN Kinship through Music, 1982

  10. Twelfth ASEAN Film Festival, 1982

  11. Improving. ASEAN Communications Academic Capacity, 1982

  12. Advisory Group Meetings of ASEAN Documentary Film, 1982/1983

  13. Production Board Meetings for ASEAN Documentary Film "Formation of ASEAN", 1982

  14. ASEAN Film Week, 1983

  15. Meeting of Working Group on Radio and Television, 1983

  16. Training of ASEAN News Agency Journalists, 1983

  17. Training of ASEAN Broadcasters - Radio Course, 1983

  18. ASEAN Exchange Radio Cultural Package Programme, 1983

Highlights of some of the major projects accomplished during the period under review:

  1. ASEAN Song Festival

    The Second ASEAN Song Festival was held in Bangkok, on 25-31 October 1982, to give recognition to ASEAN's song writers and composers. Popular singers rendered two original compositions and one traditional item from each ASEAN member country.

  2. ASEAN Exchange of Radio land Television Artistes

    The Third ASEAN Exchange of Radio and Television Artistes was held in Kuala Lumpur, on 6-14 November 1982, with the full participation of radio and television personalities. The Preparatory Meeting for the Fourth ASEAN Exchange of Radio and Television Artistes was held in the Philippines in April 1983 to prepare for the 1983 Programme of activities.

  3. ASEAN Festival of Performing Arts

    The Second ASEAN Festival of Performing Arts on 27 January - 5 February 1983 in Malaysia coincided with the Anniversary Commemoration of Kuala Lumpur. The Preparatory Meeting for the Third ASEAN Festival of Performing Arts was held in Bangkok on 18-19 April 1983 to discuss the Festival scheduled in June 1983 for the Sixteenth ASEAN Ministerial Meeting in Bangkok.

  4. ASEAN Film Festival

    Feature and documentary films were shown in several theatres in Bangkok at the Twelfth ASEAN Film Festival. It had the participation of movie producers, directors, film stars and cinema personalities of member countries. The Festival was so successfuI that the screening of films had to be extended for another two weeks.

  5. Travelling Exhibition of Painting and Photographs

    The Second Travelling Exhibition of Paintings and Photographs in Malaysia from 13 December 1982 to 12 January 1983 coincided with a symposium in Kuala Lumpur from 13th to 17th December 1982. It aimed to provide a basis of comparative study on current trends and developments in the visual arts, promote regional consciousness among artists and the general public and provide a glimpse of the life and landscape of member countries.

  6. ASEAN Film Week

    Feature films were shown in all participating countries at the Second ASEAN Film Week. These films were shown not only in the big cities, but also in small towns. Questionaires distributed to audiences revealed the popularity of this project to people in all walks of life. The 1983 ASEAN Film Week started in the Philippines in March, followed by Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

  7. ASEAN Sculpture Symposium

    The Second ASEAN Sculpture Symposium scheduled to be held in Thailand in August 1983 at the Chulalongkorn University provides an opportunity for students to meet with artists to discuss their works of art. In addition to the five sculpture works presented last year at the Fifteenth Annual Ministerial Meeting in Singapore, a sixth piece of sculpture will I be created for permanent display at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta.

  8. ASEAN Youth Music Workshop

    The Second ASEAN Youth Music Workshop successfully held in Bogor on 3-16 January 1983, performed to standing ovation in Jakarta and Bogor.

The following are some other major projects implemented in 1982-1983
  1. The Third Meeting of the Working Group on Radio and Television Cultural Exchange Programme in Singapore, 17 - 18 November 1982

  2. Comparative Study of Folk Arts and Indigenous Architecture in ASEAN Countries, Experts Meeting in Malaysia, 25-28 April 1983

  3. Archeological Excavation and Conservation in Dieng Plateau in Central Java, Indonesia, 8-28 April 1983

  4. Study of Basic Traditional Dances, Music, Choreography and Visual Arts, in Yogyakarta, 23 May 1982 - 23 November 1982.

  5. ASEAN Kinship Through Music, in the Philippines, March 1983

  6. ASEAN Music Interludes, in Singapore February 1983

  7. The Preparatory Meeting of the Role of Communications in the Socio-Cultural Development in Thailand, 16-18 August 1982

  8. Anthology of ASEAN Literature, Philippines, 1983.

  9. ASEAN Youth Painting Workshop and Exhibition, Thailand, 8-9 November 1982.

  10. Training of Radio/Television Broadcasters in the Production of Cultural Programme, Malaysia, 11 January - 18 February 1983.

  11. Study and Documentation on the Use of Cultural Traditional Media, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 15-18 September 1982.

  12. The Advisory Group Meeting on ASEAN Documentary Film and Production Board Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, 12-15 January and 7-8 February 1983 respectively.

  13. Third ASEAN Seminar on Mass Media/Exchange of Journalists, started on 21 February 1983 in Jakarta, and ended on 14 March 1983 in Kuala Lumpur.

  14. Exchange of Museum Curators of Arts, Singapore, May 1983.

  15. Second Travelling Exhibition of Paintings and Photographs, Kuala Lumpur, 13-18 December 1982.

  16. The Preparatory Meeting of the ASEAN Exhibition of Children's Arts, Kuala Lumpur, 30-31 May 1983.

  17. The Preparatory Meeting of the Fifth Exchange of Radio and Television Artistes, Manila, 12-13 March 1983.

  18. Second ASEAN Festival of Performing Arts, Kuala Lumpur, 29 January - 3 February 1983.

  19. The Preparatory Meeting of the Third ASEAN Festival of Performing Arts. Bangkok, 1 8-19 April 1983.

  20. Second ASEAN Youth Music Workshop, Indonesia, 3-1 6 January 1983.

  21. Third ASEAN Film Week, Malaysia, 29 April - 9 May 1983.

  22. Fourth Meeting of Working Group on Radio and Television Cultural Programmes Exchange, Manila, 14-15 April 1983.

  23. The Production Board Meeting of the ASEAN Documentary Film Formation of ASEAN, Kuala Lumpur, 7-8 April 1983.

  24. Training of ASEAN News Agency Journalists, Malaysia, 16-28 May 1983.