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The Support Arts and Crafts International Centre of Thailand (SACICT)
Background
Realizing the need to expand the market and develop recognition
for the Thai folk arts and crafts, the Bangsai Arts and Crafts
Training Centre, which is attached to the SUPPORT Foundation of
Queen Sirikit of Thailand asked for Their Majesties
permission to establish the SUPPORT Arts and Crafts
International Centre of Thailand in 1995 and has reported its
construction progress to Their Majesties continually until its
completion in 2004. Its mission is mainly to help provide ways
and means to farming families all over the country to obtain
supplementary income by producing elaborately made handicrafts
and at the same time, to publicize the Thai cultural handiwork
both locally and internationally. Such attempts are expected to
be conducive to a secure national economic development in the
future. His Majesty the King graciously issued the royal decree
for the establishment of the Support Arts and Crafts
International Centre of Thailand on October 31, 2003 and this
was announced in the government gazette on November 1 of the
same year. This newly constructed international centre will be
managed as an autonomous public organization, a new type of
juristic entity complying to the law on autonomous public
organizations. The centre will be run under the supervision of
the Ministry of Commerce. It will be called SACICT for
short according to its initial and will be subsidized by the
government as a nonprofit-making organization requiring joint co-operation
from the government sector, the private sector (by the Council
of the Chamber of Commerce and the Council of Industry of
Thailand) and the Bangsai Arts and Crafts Training Centre of
Queen Sirikit of Thailand.
Objective
SACICT is established to celebrate Her Majesty the Queens
72nd birthday anniversary on August 12, 2004 to show gratitude
to Her sincere effort in promoting Her peoples quality of
life and to extend assistance towards the promotion and
betterment of Thai folk arts and crafts for export.
Vision
SACICT aims for excellence in the management, production and
marketing of Thai handicrafts and also aims to be the main key
in the development of the network of co-operation in production
and marketing efforts so as to propel Thai arts and crafts
products towards local and international recognition.
Size and
Location
SACICT is located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River at
Chang-Yai Subdistrict, Bangsai District, Ayutthaya Province. It
is adjacent to the Bangsai Arts and Crafts Training Centre. Its
area covers 45 rais 3 ngans, consisting of two main buildings
which are the main four-storied building with an area of 34,340
square metres serving as the building for the display of arts
and crafts products for export, and the smaller building housing
the arts and crafts market measuring 7,000 square metres. The
construction started in 1999 and finished in July 2004, costing
632.7 million baht for construction and another 259 million baht
for decoration. The Ministry of Commerce dedicated the SUPPORT
Arts and Crafts International Centre of Thailand to Her Majesty
Queen Sirikit and organized a festive celebration entitled
SACICT Honouring Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, The Great Queen
of Thailand, on Her Seventy-second Birthday Anniversary from
August 6-8 , 2004.
Main
Responsibilities
1. To organize the contests and sale of local arts and crafts
products
2. To develop and promote local arts and crafts products in
terms of quality standards as well as the images and designs of
such products and their packaging
3. To promote and support their marketing activities and the
expansion of their local and international markets
4. To build up the network of support among different industries
in terms of production and sale of local arts and crafts
products, and to apply modern technology to techniques initiated
through local wisdom or blend them together
5. To develop training plans in terms of production , personnel
and marketing management
6. To provide support to and encourage the observance of the
intellectual property rights of all types