editorial: From The Editor

This issue of Wacana Seni focuses on traditional art forms and efforts made to revitalizeand promote them. In her article Preservation of Traditional Art: The Case of the NooraaPerformance in Southern Thailand , Takako Iwasawa shows how the nooraa of SouthernThailand has been conserved as a result of the introduction of cultural education in publicschools. Consequently, new types of performers have emerged among school children and thegeneral public