Successful nominations to MOWCAP will be entered
on the Asia/Pacific Regional Register.
The Register is a listing of those "documentary
heritage of influence" in the Asia/Pacific
Region approved for inclusion by MOWCAP.
As stipulated in the Memory of the World:
General
Guidelines to Safeguard Documentary Heritage
(2002), the selection criteria of
the Regional Registers should use the criteria
adopted by the International Register as a template,
make logical variations and may incorporate
additional criteria appropriate to the regional
context (paragraph 4.1.6). The basic selection
criteria include: authenticity, uniqueness,
significance in terms of time, place, people,
subject and theme, form and style, integrity,
threat and management plan.
MOWCAP is the authority to approve all inscriptions
on the Asia/Pacific Regional Register of MOW
documentary heritage. MOWCAP assesses nominations
from member states for inscription through its
Asia/Pacific Register Subcommittee against established
selection criteria as stipulated in paragraph
1.2 of MOWCAP Guidelines.
Normally, inscriptions on the Asia/pacific
Register are made every two years.
International and
Regional registers
Successful nominations from Asia Pacific to
the UNESCO MOW Program are listed in
the International MOW Register
A set
of 17 documents from Australia such as the Royal
Commission of Assent establishing the
Commonwealth of Australia of 9 July 1900 and
the Yolngu people of Yirrkala bark petitions to
the Parliament of Australia of 1963 that form
the ˇ§Landmark Constitutional Documents of the
Commonwealth of Australiaˇ¨ are recognized as the
historic documents that charted the evolution of
Australia as one of the worldˇ¦s most stable and
long-lived democracies.
The Tuol
Sleng Genocide Museum Archive is a sad testimony
of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge
regime in Cambodia in 1975-79 during which over
2 million people lost their lives. The Archive
contains about 12,000 negatives and photos of
the staff and 5,000 of the 15,000 prisoners held
captive in the Tuol Sleng Prison and
interrogation centre as well as prison
documents. It is expected that this archive will
be used in the current international Genocide
Trial being conducted in Cambodia.
The
ˇ§Nagara Kertagamaˇ¨ is a 14th century Javanese
written on palm-leaves that gave an account of
government and society in the Majapahit kingdom
that covered most of the geographical area
covering prent-day Indonesia. The memory of this
kingdom inspired the founders of Indonesia in
their struggle against colonial rule.
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The
Epigraphic Archives of Wat Pho in Bangkok is a
unique collection of 1,360 Thai language
inscriptions on marble plates made in the 1830ˇ¦s
on both religious and secular subjects,
representing a wide range of Thai knowledge of
Asian and local roots of the time. It was a
conscious effort by King Rama III and Thai
scholars to preserve them in and made them
visible to the public with the ultimate aim in
general education on cultural heritage,
diversity and civilizations. The knowledge
related to Thai yoga has recently become
widespread through devoted practitioners,
schools, spas and wellness centres worldwide.
