The 39th SEAMEO High Officials Meeting was convened on 15-17 November 2016 at the Amari Watergate Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. Apart from 14 working papers which were adopted by concensus ad referendum, the meeting discussed and endorsed 13 other working papers through plenary presentations by the SEAMEO Secretariat and relevant SEAMEO Centres. Among the presentation working papers are Report on the Implementation of Activities under the SEAMEO Education Agenda/7 Priority Areas, Report on the SEAMEO College and Activities for 2nd Cycle of Implementation (July 2015–June 2016), Report and Proposal on SEAMEO Big Data by SEAMEO Secretariat and Proposal of SEAMEO CELLL and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) Collaborative Regional Project Towards a Lifelong Learning Agenda for Southeast Asian Countries, by SEAMEO CELLL.
HE General Dapong Ratanasuwan, Minister of Education of Thailand, presided over the Opening Ceremony, and Dr Harris Iskandar, Director General of Early Childhood and Community Education, Directorate General of Early Childhood and Community Education, Ministry of Education and Culture Indonesia, chaired the meeting.