Institutions of the United Nations (UN) in charge of issues of culture, UNESCO, has agreed batik as a cultural heritage objects not produced by Indonesia.
That success has been reported by the Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at a meeting at the presidential palace in Bogor, West Java, on Monday.
Bakrie said the inauguration of batik as a cultural heritage objects not of UNESCO will be held at a series of events on September 28, 2009 to October 2, 2009 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
"We have received notification from UNESCO that batik is recognized as a world heritage resulting from the Indonesian nation," he said.
To celebrate that success, he continued, the president appealed to all Indonesian people to wear batik clothes for such an award against the Indonesian culture.
"The President expressed to maintain it. Menbudpar itself has given assurance that the batik will continue to be cultivated in Indonesia," he said.
No objects of cultural heritage of humanity is one of three lists are made under the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Cultural Heritage Objects Not for Humanity.
Indonesia has become a state party in the convention.
Since 2008, the government has conducted field research and involve the community as well as batik experts in 19 provinces in Indonesia to nominate batik as a cultural heritage objects not of humanity by UNESCO.
According to Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare, UNESCO assess batik as the nation's cultural icons and symbols that are unique and profound philosophies include the human life cycle. "Not only batik of Indonesia is considered original culture, but is recognized as a representation of cultural objects not of humanity," he said.
As a traditional cloth, he added, batik is rich in cultural values as a traditional craft handed down from generation to generation.
Minister of Culture and Tourism Jero Wacik said that since 2003 the Indonesian culture has been recognized by UNESCO to achieve the certificate puppets as objects not of cultural heritage and the kris as a world cultural heritage of Indonesia.
Furthermore, according to Jero, the government is being nominated as a cultural heritage of Angklung Indonesia.
"We continue to fight one at a cultural work," he said.
(Antaranews.com)
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