Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in Malaysia, Museums | No Comments »
... and rightly so! The break-in, reported two weekends ago, saw the loss of three replica Portuguese pistols and eleven even more valuable kris (Malay daggers) from the History and ... Read more..Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Malaysia, Museums | No Comments »
A number of priceless antique weapons were stolen from the Malaysian Historic and Ethnography Museum in Malacca, Malaysia over the weekend, chalking up a loss amounting to "millions of ringgit". ... Read more..Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Posted in Indonesia | No Comments »
Investigations into the theft of artefacts from a Javanese museum takes a sinister turn when an expert witness is found dead beside the highway. Witness in museum theft found dead The Jakarta ... Read more..Thursday, December 13th, 2007 Posted in Indonesia | 2 Comments »
Following the wake of the stolen museum artefacts in Indonesia, an editorial in the Jakarta Post wonders if many of the artefacts in the museums are even genuine. Museum thefts suggest ... Read more..Monday, December 3rd, 2007 Posted in Indonesia | No Comments »
With pieces from the museum stolen and accusations of another country stealing cultural heritage - does Indonesia do enough to protect its cultural heritage? This editorial reflects on the state ... Read more..Monday, November 26th, 2007 Posted in Indonesia | No Comments »
25 November 2007 (Jakarta Post) - A further development to the museum theft story, the businessman who owns the house where some of the stolen statues were found in pledges ... Read more..