Indonesia to Host UNESCO Convention in 2011

Jakarta, Indonesia - Indonesia will host the sixth United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Inter Governmental Committee for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2011, Antara news agency reported.

"On November 19, 2010, Indonesia has been elected to host the sixth Inter Governmental Committee for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Herirage (IGC-ICH) in Bali in 2011," Minister of Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik said here Monday.

The Unesco IGC-ICH meeting will discuss an important agenda for the future implementation of the Intangible Cultural Conservation Convention.

The discussions will cover the nomination of various intangible cultural subjects forwarded by the country holding the convention to Unesco and more effective procedures for the nomination of consultative board in processing the nominations.

"Indonesia will be actively taking part in the convention as host and member of the subsidiary body and consultative body committee," he said.

Wacik said Indonesia as the party of the convention has been playing an active role in various meeting relating to the convention since 2008.

In the fifth session in Nairobi, Kenya, from November 15 to 19, 2010, Indonesia has made three important decisions.

"The meeting also included angklung, Indonesia's specific bamboo musical instrument, in the list of representative intangible cultural heritage of humanity," he said.

The meeting held on November 16, 2010, confirmed 46 intangible cultural nominations from 31 counties, including angklung.

"Thus, Unesco has declared Indonesia's wayang (shadow leather puppets), keris (dagger), batik, and angklung as intangible cultural heritage of humanity," he said.

Unesco believed that the Indonesian angklung meets the conditions of a world intangible cultural heritage as it is a musical art with basic values of cooperation, mutual respect, and social harmony which are the main parts of the cultural identity of culture of the people of West Java and Banten.

Wacik also said that they have taken measures of conservation of angklung with the cooperation of the government, artists, and the public.

These measures are expected to boost the dissemination of angklung knowhow in the formal and informal context, and the holding of more angklung art performances, and the development of the angklung handicraft, and sustainable raising of bamboo as a most important basic material of angklung.

"The Unesco IGC-ICH convention on November 18, 2010, has also agreed on the accreditation of the Indonesian Association of Oral Tradition as a non-governmental organization," the minister said.

Under the status, the association would be able to take part in drawing up a recommendation upon the request of the Committee, the miniter said.

Source: http://www.bernama.com
Photo: http://portal.unesco.org

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