Council News

WSA Working Party Meetings – Delegates Guidelines – 3 & 6 July

The team members of the working party are working on the guidelines for delegates to the next World Congress.

Team members consist of International Helpers, Zone Representatives, and WSA executive officers.

WSA – WCOT – Survey Invitation

Share your thoughts on the upcoming 16th Subud World Congress in Kalimantan 2024.

The WSA Executive Committee and the World Congress Organizing Team (WCOT) would like to invite individual Subud members from around the globe to participate in this short survey about world congress attendance.

WSA Working Party Meeting – 12 June

The working party met to discuss comments and proposed revision to the draft MOU prepared by SDIA.

The revised draft MOU was prepared and shared with other members of the board by Google Drive. After consultation with the IH on WSA comments and revision, it will be proposed to SDIA. WSA scheduled to meet with IH on 3rd July.

WSA Monthly BOD Meeting – 11 June

The following topics were discussed during the meeting: –

The board agree to re-format the style of the formal WSA minutes of board meeting and for approved minutes to be placed in a shared Google Drive folder. Statutory Accounts of 2021 was discussed and the board agreed to approve after receiving final draft from the WSA accountant. Audited Accounts for 2021 to be presented to the Zone Representatives by 30 June. The board of directors have agreed to conduct the WSC Meeting in Kalimantan from the 5th to the 14th of February 2024. WSA working party on SDIA MOU will invite IH for consultation on the draft MOU. SICA is ready to discuss a draft Charter with WSA.

WSA Meeting with SICA Board – 4 June

As part of the WSA communication efforts with the WSA Affiliates, the board met with the SICA board.

Matters discussed, after introducing members of each board, were the visibility of SICA to the world, space to discover talents in Subud, and technical support for SICA.
SICA will also work with WSA on an MOU.

WSA Working Party – on Organization – 29 May

WSA in harmonizing its relationship with the Affiliates and Wings is working on enhancing mutual understanding between international Subud organizations.

The working party, which members include International Helpers, Zone Representatives and the WSA Executive Chair is discussing a draft memorandum of understanding proposed by SDIA.

WSA & SESI “meet & greet” – 22 May

As part of maintaining communication and relationship with its affiliates and wings, WSA has started to arrange for the WSA board members to meet board members from affiliates and wings.

In March 2022, the WSA met with the board of SDIA. In May, a meeting took place with the Chair and Co-Chair of SESI, Hammond Peek and Gaye Thavisin. The meeting was productive, catching up on the wings’ activities and discussing ways to reach out to members including ideas for the coming World Congress in Kalimantan. It was agreed to share the ideas discussed for the World Congress with the WCOT team, and to develop a charter between the two organizations.

White Book Team Meeting – 14 May

The team met again for its monthly meeting after a break in April. Discussed at the meeting:
  • Inviting the IH Dewan to look at the draft White Book; Paloma to try to meet the IH in Porto in June/ Assisi in October.
  • To properly sequencing of each section (ZR, IH, etc.); layout, design, and printing/publishing of the White Book by July 2023.
  • To allow for revision/adjustment to the White Book as annexes to the initial edition,
  • Executive Chair, Suyono, to write an introduction for the White Book.

WCOT Full Team Meeting – 8 May

The full team has started to regroup again, and each division updated what they had developed during the pandemic period.

The WSA Website has been build, and now need to have the content for communication to the members. The Registration system is being worked on and getting feedback, content is need to be put in, payment accounts need to be decided. The executive is working on guidelines to prepare the delegates before the congress. The executive chair has visited Palangka Raya and Rungan Sari, and reported his meetings there with the local groups, local community, and regional government of the city of Palangka Raya. The communication team are working to broad cast information on Kalimantan and the 2024 World Congress,

WSA Monthly BOD Meeting – 7 May

During the board meeting the following topics were discussed: –

Planning for the upcoming WSC meeting on the place and the dates. The International Helpers shared the testing result and the Dewan unanimously recommend Kalimantan for the next WC meeting. After discussion on practicality of places and the benefits of having the WSC meeting in Kalimantan, the meeting participants were asked to share again how they felt where the right place is, and if they would agree to follow the majority. The majority of the participants feel that Kalimantan is the right place, and the rest feel that they can follow the majority. It was decided that the place of the meeting will be Kalimantan. As regard the dates, the executive chair will issue another questionnaire, for council members and the WSA Team, with a choice to choose more than one date as preference.

Guidelines for World Congress; Participants with World Congress experience were asked to make comments and give input on the draft guidelines prepared by the executive office. The meeting agreed to set up a small working party to work on the guidelines. WSA will prepare a recommendation for proposal to be submitted to the member countries. WSA recommendation to the Zones for proposal by member countries to be finalized by end of September.
Also discussed were working agreement between SDIA and WSA, and update from Executive Chair Suyono of his visit to Palangka Raya in April, during Ramadan.