Family Feud

The Adam Malik Museum is bankrupt. Thousands of priceless artifacts and items of national heritage have been sold. But who bought them?

December 11, 2000

The exhibition hall on the second floor of the Adam Malik Museum on Jalan Diponegoro in Central Jakarta, conveys the sense of once having been home to now-lost treasures. Tragically, thousands of pieces of china, paintings, and priceless historical artifacts have disappeared from the museum—without trace. Alone in quietude, a painted portrait of Adam Malik remains on the wall, his eyes surveying the emptiness around him with an air of sad

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