Under the regulations issued by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, all provinces and cities nationwide are required to finish the first phase of research and survey of intangible cultural heritage. However, it seems the issue has still been ignored in many localities in Binh Dinh.
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A survey on intangible cultural heritage is being carried out at An Toan commun, An Lao district. |
The Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism promulgated a plan instructing the research and survey of intangible cultural heritage in Binh Dinh. The result of the survey will be stored at local bodies which are in charge of updating the information and reporting the matter annually.
However, An Lao is the only district carrying out the survey so far while other districts have just started initial steps due to different reasons.
The survey is expected to be carried out in different phases; also, scientific studies will also be done at the same time, but the works are slowly running.
The main obstacle to the implementation of the survey is due to the lack of expenses. “The local authorities need to allocate money to functional panels to carry out the survey,” said Doan Van Chu, an official of An Nhon district’s Culture-Information Agency.
In addition, the lack of knowledge is also problematic at grassroots level. When the survey was, for example, carried out in An Toan commune, the owners of intangible cultural heritage were not well aware of its value and the staff who are in charge of the survey were inexperienced.
After the plan issued by the Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, we haven’t’ received any specific instructions or plans to implement the survey. All localities don’t know how to start the matter, said head of An Lao district’s Culture-Information Agency, Hoang Ngoc Thanh.
This is the first time the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism gave instructions on researching and evaluating intangible cultural heritage nationwide. However, Binh Dinh hasn’t still been ready for the issue.
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