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THE MINISTRY of Education, Culture, Research and Technology said that Indonesia’s (RI’s) intangible cultural heritage (WBTB) has now increased to 289 cultural works.
“In the next stage, the process of preserving cultural heritage is something that needs to be followed up because actually the series of cultural heritage preservation does not only stop after the stipulation,” said Director of Cultural Protection Irini Dewi Wanti in a written statement received in Jakarta, Monday (11/1).
Irini said that intangible cultural heritage should not only look at quantity, but also quality. Through this stipulation, the bearer regions will be able to create a data base that will lead to the main cultural data.
In that case, her party held a trial process starting from October 25 to 30, 2021. Previously, there were 859 proposals for intangible cultural heritage that entered in 2021 from 33 supporting provinces. Of all the provinces in the country, only Central Kalimantan did not propose cultural works.
After going through the proposal improvement stage, a total of 141 intangible cultural heritages were suspended and 718 passed to the first stage of the assessment of the intangible cultural heritage proposals. On that occasion, the expert team decided that as many as 48 proposals were continued to the next stage, while 363 proposals were improved, 241 proposals were suspended and 66 proposals were declared verified.
Furthermore, at the second assessment meeting, the expert team discussed 363 proposals and as many as 51 proposals from the verification results in the field were discussed. From that meeting, it was decided that as many as 293 proposals were continued to the determination hearing and 121 proposals were suspended.
After going through two stages of assessment meetings, at the 2021 Indonesian Intangible Cultural Heritage Determination session, it was finally decided that the intangible cultural heritage owned by the state had increased by 289 cultural works as of Friday (29/10).
Previously, since it was started in 2013, Indonesia’s intangible cultural heritage has amounted to 1,528 cultural works, with Central Java Province being the province with the highest number of intangible cultural heritages, namely 52 cultural works. [antaranews/photo special]
