Jakarta hosts exhibition of looted cultural masterpieces returned by Netherlands

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A collection of 800 artefacts taken from Indonesia during Dutch colonial rule is now on display in Jakarta's National Museum as part of the exhibition Repatriated.

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00:30but also the most important is

00:33first, how can we reconstruct the history of the past

00:40that may be lost or erased or manipulated

00:47we can reconstruct this

00:49second, we can fill the gap of the vacuum of history that has existed all this time

01:00it's important that those objects that are requested to be returned are returned

01:16still, there might be other objects from which the provenance is not clear

01:21or for some other reasons, restitution is not possible

01:25then these might be displayed in Dutch museums

01:29but again, the heart of the matter is that colonial collections

01:34artifacts that were stolen during the colonial period

01:37are returned on the basis of this process that was established

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