Andrea Amborowatiningsih
The Real Deal

Her passion for old artifacts exposed a scandal: fake statues at Radya Pustaka Museum in Surakarta. The death of Lambang, an expert witness who took part in the investigation of the case, shook her deeply.

December 24, 2013

HER knowledge of the artifacts at the Radya Pustaka Museum in Surakarta, also known as Solo, caused Ambar, short for Andrea Amborowatiningsih, to notice anomalies in five of its stone statues, one day in 2007. She was showing two foreign students, studying at the Gadjah Mada University (UGM) Faculty of Cultural Sciences, around the museum on Jl. Slamet Riyadi. "I forget the month, maybe between September and October 2007," said the mother of two at

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