Dr. Bill Watson, Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent at Canterbury, at his home in Bandung, Indonesia, shares his views on the urgency of the Conference “Crossing: Travels, Transformations, and Transgressions in and out of Codes and Canons,” 24-26 May 2012 at Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung; and the danger of the marginalization of the arts and humanities in secondary and higher education in Indonesia and the world.