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Cultural Restitution
Feb 06, 2023
INDONESIA
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REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
Updated August 2023
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Indonesia, together with other
restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.
August 2023
Experts query the readiness and safety of returning artefacts from The Netherlands amid fears of heists and lax museum security
January 2022
A Dutch non-profit foundation has returned a fifth cultural artefact, a tombak (spear), to Puri Klungkung (the palace of Klungkung) in Bali
More News
A Roman bronze head from a statue of a young man, acquired by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 1971, is returning to Turkey after evidence emerged it was excavated illegally
An official from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has confirmed the identity of an object held at National Museums Scotland (NMS) as a sacred Ethiopian Tabot
The British Museum has shown itself adept at refusing to provide information to questions they’d prefer not to answer. We hope our initiative to escalate concerns about the Museum’s collection of Ethiopian Tabots to the Information Commissioner’s Office will encourage greater transparency
