Safeguarding Indonesia's Cultural Heritage
Last November, Unesco officially added Indonesia’s Saman Gayo, a sitting dance from the Gayo Lues district of Aceh, to the Unesco List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Urgent Need of Safeguarding. While other “intangible” Indonesian cultural traditions — including batik textiles and wayang puppet theatre — have already been recognized as part of the c…
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