The Government Is Precisely The Weakest Link

FOR the past few weeks, the office of Hilmar Farid, the education and culture ministry’s culture affairs director-general,

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November 27, 2018

The documents—the largest compilation ever recorded—stupefied Hilmar, 50. They are the records of oral traditions, manuscripts, customs, folk games, traditional sports, knowledge and technologies, arts, languages and rituals—the 10 cultural objects—of 250 regencies/towns and 25 provinces across Indonesia. “All this time, we’ve only seen the tip of our cultural iceberg. We don’t know how much remained under

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