Controversy of the Indonesia Exhibition at Rijksmuseum
A month prior to its opening, a major exhibition on Indonesia at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has already been at the center of fierce public debate. Guest curator Bonnie Triyana and the Rijksmuseum are reported to the Dutch police. The Netherland’s main museum is seen as succumbing to right-wing criticism.
Linawati Sidarto
January 24, 2022
A FEW minutes after 10am on Tuesday, January 11, Rijksmuseum Director Taco Dibbits opened the online press conference from the museum’s grand neo-gothic building in Amsterdam. The Netherland’s national museum for art and history will open the exhibition Revolusi! Indonesië Onafhankelijk (Revolution! Indonesia Independent!) next month. During his opening speech, Dibbits underlined that two Dutch and two Indonesian curators have wo
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