Historic Dutch-Indonesian Collection Seeks New Home
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Some 12,000 objects of shared colonial heritage from the Dutch Museum Nusantara seek a new destination after Jakarta halted repatriation efforts to Indonesia.
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The letter dated March 31 from the Indonesian director-general for culture, Hilmar Farid, "took us completely by surprise," recalled Delft Heritage curator Marga Schoemaker. Indonesia, the letter said, has decided not to accept a large donation of objects that belonged to Delft's Museum Nusantara.
This, Schoemaker says in September, was a 'very disappointing' culmination of a process that started three years ago, after the century-old museum permanent
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