Asian Sacred Wisdom (ASW) will be organising INGE (Indigenous Global Event) 2024, in International Youth Training Center, Thailand

ASW is organizing the INGE (Indigenous Global Event) 2024 from December 10-17, 2024, based on the theme D’ Future Is Indigenous which is being organized by a civil society group from across the globe. As a group of like-minded individuals and institutions, the D’ Future is Indigenous (DFI) is collectively endeavours to tap the indigenous peoples’ worldview for the healing of the Earth and to make it a sustainable home for humankind.

We are comprised of the Asian Sacred Wisdom SDN BHD (a corporation registered and based in Malaysia), the Research and Training Centre for Religio-Cultural Community (RTRC) (a research and training center in Chiang Mai, Thailand), the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (an international indigenous peoples’ movement based in Thailand), the Instituto Superior Intercultural Ayuk (a college dedicated to indigenous intercultural education in Mexico), ALL Forum (Asian Lay Leaders Forum) , FORUM PACOS Trust (a community-based organization in Sabah, Malaysia), and International Movement of Catholic Students (IMCS Pax Romana).

The D’ Future is Indigenous (DFI) would like to advance further the cause of our indigenous brothers and sisters. In fact, if only we have sufficient pecuniary resources, we would have decided to hold our major activity slated to transpire in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to coincide with this year’s observance of the International Day of Indigenous Peoples on the 9^th of August.

As our immediate objectives, we intend to accomplish the following:

To solidify the formation of the D’ Future is Indigenous as a civil society movement that advocates for the rights of the indigenous peoples across the globe;
To lend the platforms that our group may extend to our IPs to bring to the main stream their plights insofar as their rights are concerned;
To promote the IPs’ practices, belief systems especially about the control and management of natural resources, food system and livelihood as an alternative to the existing socio-cultural belief systems of the world; and,
To popularize the indigenous knowledge & religiocultural wisdom by bringing them across the consciousness of our younger generations.

INGE 2024 will be held in IYTC (International Youth Training Center) Doi Tong, 1.5 hours from Chiangmai, Thailand.