Cultural Restitution
February 6, 2023
INDONESIA
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REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
Updated January 2025
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made to Indonesia, together with other
restitution news. Entries are updated regularly.
January 2025
Six month project,'Representing Papua: Portrayal of Culture from Local, National and Global Perspectives', fosters an international dialogue on the representation and repatriation of Papuan culture
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
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This week’s announcement that Cambridge University has transferred legal ownership of its collection of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria could be hugely significant
Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has confirmed it will review the exclusion it imposed on national collections that prevents them from returning cultural objects on moral grounds
Six Native American skulls, acquired to advance the pseudoscience of phrenology, have been returned by the University of Edinburgh to the Muscogee Nation, a self-governed Native American Tribal Nation