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Cultural heritage: The politics of pictures of Indonesia

Kaibon Palace in Banten Lama - Credit: Tine Suartina, Courtesy of LIPI (Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia)

When visitors take pictures of Indonesia, they tend to photograph Indonesia’s cultural heritage. These pictures share certain qualities. They seem harmonious and to be of activities or places that have remained the same for generations or centuries. They also often exclude people or represent them as bound by history and relics of a past era

The hidden story of Borobudur

Borobudur and its surroundings as seen from local settlement - Credit: Dedi Supriadi Adhuri

A local communities’ perspective

The political economy of cultural heritage in Trowulan

Majapahit bricks excavated by a Traditional Brick Maker - Credit: Tod Jones

The battles for the future of an archaeological landscape

Religious conflict and heritage management in Banten Lama

Great Mosque of Banten - Credit: Tod Jones

An ongoing struggle to control a historic Mosque disrupts a heritage region

'Kampoeng Cyber'

Mural in Kampoeng Taman - Credit: Michael Romanos

Yogyakarta’s little internet community, Taman Sari

Shifting sands

Borobudur - Credit: Emma Chegwyn

Archeology and public participation in Indonesian heritage management

The pattern of a batik revival

Batik Showroom with specially dressed Parkir - Credit: Tod Jones

How UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage program transformed the batik neighbourhood of Laweyan

Good intentions, mixed realities

Danau Beratan, Bali (2007) - Credit: Leyla Stevens

Bali’s World Heritage listing has put its rice-farming culture under stress

Heritage adrift

Stacks of Changsha bowls in-situ, 1999 - Credit: Michael Flecker

What next for Indonesia’s underwater cultural heritage?

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