How ‘to make people truly Thai’?
1939 – 1944 12 ‘Rattaniyom’ or ‘special decrees’
1940 National Cultural Maintenance Act
1942 National Culture Act
National Council for Culture
Bureau of culture for the mind
Bureau of culture for customs & traditions
Bureau of culture for the fine arts
Bureau of culture for women’s affairs
A precise definition of what culture is:
‘the aspect which signifies growth and progress, orderliness, national unity and good morality of the people’ (Kobkua, 1995)