Kemenbud encourages the acceleration of the status of cultural heritage to national level

Jakarta -The Ministry of Culture by the Directorate -General of Culture and Tradition Protection held a meeting of the Cultural Heritager team with the Ministry of Culture Office, Jakarta. This meeting examines a number of things regarding the acceleration of determining the status of cultural heritage based on law number 5 of 1992 regarding cultural heritage objects at national level. In his remarks, the Minister of Culture Fadli Zon emphasized the importance of protection, use and development of cultural heritage. “I want us to have the same enthusiasm and speed, that the purpose of the Ministry of Culture is to care for and develop cultural heritage,” Fadli explained in a written statement on Tuesday (8/19/2025). Browse to continue with the content of the content, also underline the many areas and cultural heritage areas that, according to their views, have cultural elements. “In a number of my visits to the regions, many cultural heritage has not been upgraded to national level, even the terrain or region has not been recorded as a cultural heritage,” he explained. In support of the development of cultural heritage, the Ministry of Culture establishes synergy with related ministries and institutions. The Ministry of Education and Culture plans to make an agreement with the Ministry of Home Affairs to improve the amount and quality of cultural heritage experts. Fadli said his party also coordinated with the National Research and Innovation Agency (Brin). As for the later Brin, not only does a role play as a storage space, but can also follow it up on identifying the artifacts done. “There are about 6,000 artifacts owned by Brin. We need cooperation, if the results of the study say that the object is a cultural heritage, we can take further steps to enter the artifacts in the museum or returned to the origin of the artifacts,” he said. On this occasion, Fadli also emphasizes the need to accelerate the determination of cultural heritage. According to him, 228 cultural heritage that currently exists at the national level is a number that can still be increased to tens of thousands. However, Fadli emphasized that this effort can be carried out not only by the central government, but also the regional government. In the future, the Ministry of Culture will tighten the direction of the acceleration strategy to determine the cultural heritage. Not only the law study further investigates, but also the completeness of dossier, and the expansion of studies on topic of underwater heritage. “With the existence of the Ministry of Culture, we must take progressive steps, dare to take a breakthrough and authority, and the courage to determine,” Papat Fadli. Meanwhile, the Director General of Culture and Tradition Protection, Restu Gunawan, explained that there are currently 954 cultural objects designated as a cultural heritage on the basis of Act No. 5 of 1992. However, of the 954 cultural objects, there are 628 objects that require data collection. At present, the cultural conservation center has spread over 23 provinces, which has actively contributed to performing the composition of monitoring and evaluation of 954 cultural heritage. Some regions such as Aceh, West Java, East and North Calimantan reached 100 percent. “There is a difference in the treatment of cultural heritage in the Number 5 Act, with the Act number 11 of 2010, we must investigate how the transitional provisions are, including technical ratings carried out from local governments to the central government,” he said. Senda with Fadli, Restu also emphasizes the need to accelerate the determination of the national cultural heritage. “Indonesia is a superpower in culture and megadiversity. There are opportunities that can be used to accelerate that we are rich in culture,” he stressed. On the other hand, the chairman of the cultural heritage expert, Surya Helmi is optimistic about determining national cultural heritage in large quantities. However, he said the importance of sustainability efforts. “We can produce a lot of national cultural heritage, but we must also think about the continuation of the determination,” said Surya pawned. For information, also present at this meeting, Secretary General of the Ministry of Culture, Bambang Wibawarta; Special staff of the Minister of Media and Public Communications, Muhammad Asrian Mirza; Head of the Center for Data and Information Technology, Fitra Arda; Director of Cultural Heritage, I made Dharma Suteja; Director of History and Museum, Agus Mulyana; Head of Legal Bureau and Facilitation of Cooperation, Ardhien Nissa Widhawati; As well as a number of members of the cultural Heritage expert team that Hybrid attended. Also watch the video ‘Fadli Zon attempts contact the Dutch menbud to restore Indonesian artefacts’: (AKD/AKD)