Dispute Over ‘Java Man’ Raises a Question: Who Owns Prehistory?
via New York Times, 09 November 2022: Indonesia is seeking the repatriation of the Java Man remains, and other artefacts ...
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Indonesia Calls For Return Of ‘Java Man,’ and Countless Art and Natural Historical Objects, From Netherlands
via Art News, 20 October 2022: Among the cultural objects Indonesia wants repatriated are the Lombok treasure, taken at the ...
Dutch slavery exhibition confronts brutal past
via Jakarta Post, 18 May 2021: A new exhibition at the Rijksmuseum tells the story of Dutch colonialism through slavery.
[Talk] The Politics of Restitution
Readers may be interested in this talk by Jos van Beurden and Hilmar Farid hosted by the Centre for Southeast ...
[Paper] Battle of the Java Sea: One Event, Multiple Sites, Values and Views
via Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 28 January 2021: An Open Access paper on the missing World War II shipwrecks in ...
Dutch museums vow to return art looted by colonialists
via The Guardian, 08 October 2020: The Rijksmuseum and Tropenmuseum support a proposed programme to return properties seized during the ...
[Paper] Good practice: international collaboration on shared difficult heritage
via the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, 28 September 2020: A short paper about the joint Indonesian-Dutch mission to ...
[Seminar] Biographies and Restitution of Hindu and Buddhist Objects from Java, Sumatra and Bali
Readers in London may be interested in this seminar held in SOAS on 20 May 2020. Online registration through the ...
Prince’s Diponegoro’s kris returned to Indonesia
via The Guardian, 05 March 2020: Prince Diponegoro's kris (dagger) is returned to Indonesia from the Netherlands. The prince led ...
Netherlands returns 1,500 historical artifacts to Indonesia
via Jakarta Post, 07 January 2020: The return of the objects from the Nusantara Museum was reported four years ago.
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