World Subud Association-Asosiasi Susila Budhi Dharma International

WSA Zones

For organizational purposes, the World Subud Association is divided into nine zones. To be able to coordinate the work of the WSA, each zone has a coordinator who represents their countries on the World Subud Council between world congresses. Zone Representatives also chair councils for their zone, are directors of the WSA, and form the voting body of the WSC, along with the WSA Chairperson.

The WSA is also divided into three geographic Areas for assisting individual members and groups in the practice of the latihan. Each Area is represented by six international helpers making a total of 18 world wide.

You may find contacts for countries with Subud members and a list of countries with Subud members here.

The Zones are roughly geographically split in the following manner:

Zone 1 Oceania

Zone 2 Part of the Middle East and Southern Asia

Zone 3 Western Europe

Zone 4 Eastern Europe, Northern Asia and part of the Middle East

Zone 5 English speaking African Countries

Zone 6 French and Portuguese speaking African Countries

Zone 7 North America, Cuba, Suriname, and the Caribbean

Zone 8 Central America and the Northern part of South America

Zone 9 Southern part of South America

Currently Zones 1 and 2 are represented by only one person.

ZONE COUNCILS
The zone councils are, in fact, members of the World  Subud Council  speaking through their zone representatives. The zone councils are made up of the four delegates from each country of the zone. The zonal representative is chosen by the country delegates from candidates proposed by the countries and two international helpers from the area of the zone. The four country delegates are the chairperson, the committee councillor, a lady kejiwaan councillor and a gentleman kejiwaan councillor.

 

The term of the zonal representative runs for four years, usually from world congress to world congress, though ideally they are chosen some months in advance to work with the outgoing representative during a transition period.

The work of the zone council is important because the participation of each country delegate is necessary to ensure the democratic running of the WSA.