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conference seminar ; information dissemination ; library documentation services ; personnel exchange related to southeast asian archaeology and fine arts in brunei cambodia indonesia laos malaysia myanmar philippines singapore thailand timor leste vietnam and beyond key people dr. m.r. rujaya abhakorn director slogan for the preservation and promotion of southeast asian archaeology and fine arts website http www.seameo spafa.org seameo spafa is the southeast asian regional centre for archaeology and fine arts . the centre was established in 1985 . 1 the centre is under the aegis of the southeast asian ministers of education organization seameo and is hosted by the government of thailand . 2 the main objective of the centre is to promote professional competence awareness and preservation of cultural heritage in the fields of archaeology and fine arts in southeast asia . 3 4 history edit in 1971 cambodia then known as khmer republic was accepted as a member of the southeast asian ministers of education organization seameo . it was in this same year seameo launched the applied research center for archeology and fine arts arcafa in phnom penh cambodia . the goal of arcafa was to discover and preserve the cultural heritage of southeast asia . due to the civil war in cambodia seameo transferred arcafa s base to thailand in 1973 . 5 in march 1978 seameo re established arcafa as seameo project in archaeology in fine arts thereby creating the acronym spafa . being a project the spafa organizational structure consisted of a co ordinating unit which was based in bangkok and a network of sub centres established in the participating member countries . from 1978 to 1981 spafa launched its first development plan with only three member countries indonesia the philippines and thailand . the plan focused on the restoration and preservation of ancient monuments prehistory and underwater archaeology . in 1981 spafa became a permanent project and in its second development plan which covered the five years from 1981 1986 the programmes in fine arts activities were included . stress was given to the promotion of the understanding and appreciation of the rich cultural heritage of the region . the plan emphasized archaeological researches as well as researches dealing with documentation of the vanishing forms of traditional arts both creative and performing arts and the continuance of programmes on preservation and conservation of surviving artifacts which abound in the region . 6 arising from the needs expressed by the member states through visits and surveys by the working team to prepare the project personnel it was decided that the nature of activities of spafa would be in five areas ; i.e. 1 training ; 2 seminar and conferences ; 3 research and development ; 4 personnel exchange ; 5 library and documentation . it was also decided that information about the project activities as well as academic and professional knowledge should be disseminated through publication of a journal entitled spafa digest and the proceedings of workshops and seminars . these information materials are distributed to scholars researchers and those interested in archaeology history and fine arts within the region as well as outside . the project achieved its goals successfully and was well received by seameo member states seameo associated member countries donor countries and international organizations having similar purpose such as unesco icom iccrom and so on . contributions of books for the library and fellowships were received from france the netherlands and the bangkok bank thailand . the works of the co ordinating unit and the sub centres network were duly recognized . in 1984 spafa began to work out its future plan which would enable it to play a bigger role along with other seameo centres for improvement of the quality of life of the peoples in southeast asia . the programme and activities were to be strengthened by reconstituting spafa into a regional centre . in 1985 at the seameo council s twentieth conference in manila the idea to turn spafa from a project into a regional centre was endorsed by the seameo council and the government of thailand agreed to host the new regional centre which would be called the seameo regional centre for archaeology and fine arts . the acronym spafa however was maintained because of its well established recognition . references edit strengthening networks how can we improve regional and national mle networks page 7 . mahidol university website http www.lc.mahidol.ac.th mleconf2013 pptnnotes mary % 20s . t. % 20gunigundo % 20 % 20ppt % 20 % 20final.pdf arts organization of the month seameo spafa . performing arts network japan . the japan foundation http performingarts.jp e society 1109 1.html directors retreats for conservation education 2002 2008 . the getty conservation institute http www.getty.edu conservation our projects education drsretreat drsretreat 2008.html the first seameo spafa international conference on southeast asian archaeology . october 15 2012 . southeast asia library group sealg http southeastasianlibrarygroup.wordpress.com 2012 10 15 the first seameo spafa international conference on southeast asian archaeology seameo history http www.seameo.org index.php option com content & view article & id 103 & itemid 520 southeast asian archaeology international newsletter . issue no. 5 . oct nov 1994 . what is spafa http www.geocities.ws thai archaeology seasia 05 spafa1.html retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title seameo spafa & oldid 730447183 categories 1985 establishmentseducation in asianon profit organizations based in thailandhidden categories articles with too few wikilinks from september 2014all articles with too few wikilinksarticles covered by wikiproject wikify from september 2014all articles covered by wikiproject wikifywikipedia references cleanup from august 2014all articles needing references cleanuparticles covered by wikiproject wikify from august 2014wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from april 2015articles with a promotional tone from april 2015all articles with a promotional tonewikipedia articles in need of updating from april 2015all wikipedia articles in need of updating navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 19 july 2016 at 02 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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