RI Needs Cultural Heritage Database

Jakarta, Indonesia - Indonesia should have a cultural heritage database to protect the objects involved and prevent them from being claimed by other countries, a foreign service official said.

Damos Dumoli Agusman, Indonesian consul general in Frankfurt, Germany, said here on Friday a cultural heritage database was needed not only for data collection or archiving but also for protecting Indonesia`s intellectual property rights.

"The database is needed to protect our cultural heritage and intellectual property rights and to prevent them from being claimed by other countries," said Damos, who is Indonesia to attend a national seminar on intellectual property rights in Bandung, West Java, on November 25-26, 2010.

According to Damos, the seminar was organized in cooperation with the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Culture and Tourism Ministry, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Damos said Indonesia has been cooperating with WIPO in a bid to protect and preserve the national cultural heritage through capacity building and transfer of technology.

Indonesian cultural heritage items which have been recognized by UNESCO include Batik , the Angklung (traditional musical instrument made of bamboo, Wayang (traditional Javanese puppets featuring in shadow plays), Gamelan (tradition percussion music instrument from f Bali and Java).

"Therefore we should begin to realize the importance of archiving our national cultural objects to make other countries think twice before wanting to claim them," Damos said.

He said the government was currently collecting data on national cultural heritage items from Sabang to Merauke using WIPO methods. (ANT/A024)

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