National Neglect

December 18, 2000

It was with sincere regret that I read of the fate of the Adam Malik Museum in the December 12 issue of TEMPO. The museum's bankruptcy is the culmination of failure—a lack of moral and financial support from both the Indonesian public and its government. In an era where the richness of Indonesian artistic culture needs to be nurtured as much as possible, this impoverishment of a cultural landmark says something about the regard that the arts

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