WISDOM 2010, the World Conference on Culture, Education and Science, held in Yogyakarta from 5-8 December, and participated by 750 international and Indonesian delegates, was closed with a an official Declaration. The Conference carried the theme: Local Wisdom Inspiring Global Solution.
The Conference called on, and entrusted Indonesia to organize a World Culture Forum, to be convened in 2012, to contribute to an ongoing dialogue on cultural development among nations, in the face of rapid globalization and the threat of rapidly disappearing cultures. To ensure a productive dialogue that will produce significant results, the Cultural Forum should involve a wide spectrum of influential participants with differing – or even controversial – views. Therefore, leading academics, religious thinkers, media, government, NGOs, local community and business leaders from around the world should be invited to contribute.
The Conference further agreed on the following points: that Cultural diversity should be embraced as an essential building block for human civilization in the same way that bio-diversity has come to be seen as an important and valuable component in the world.
That Saving endangered cultures has to have the same priority on the World Cultural Agenda that saving endangered species does on the Global Environmental Agenda.
That Grassroot community involvement in all stages of protection and revitalizatin is essential in order to ensure enduring cultural diversity and to protect and revitalize endangered cultures;
That Cultural development should be given equal importance in national and international planning and management of modern societies in the same way that sustainable development is considered an essential factor in producing renewable, long-term economic development for a modern economy,
That Education, science and technology are the fundamental pillars to support a strong and realistic framework in which to conduct a cultural dialogue that will result in productive outputs.
And, that Cultural forums should address cultural issues of global significance in order to have a meaningful international influence.
Minister of Culture and Tourism, Jero Wacik, on behalf of the Indonesian Government received the WISDOM 2010 Declaration and wil hand this to President Yudhoyono.
Speakers at Wisdom 2010 included Jean-Michael Cousteau, Founder and President of Ocean Futures Society, an explorer, environmentalist, educator, film producer and the Executive Vice President of The Cousteau Society for nearly 20 years. Also attending was UNESCO’s Regional Director for Asia Pacific, Hubert Gijzen
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