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Returning to belong? Reflections from “Scenes from a Repatriation” and more

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Returning to belong? Reflections from “Scenes from a Repatriation” and more by Emma Efkeman Last month, a new play by playwright, Joel Tan, finished a four-week run at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Scenes from a Repatriation comprises a series of vignettes—first in London, then in mainland China—witnessed by, intervened in, and responding to […]

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Understanding the locale, or what’s restitution actually for?

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Understanding the locale, or what’s restitution actually for? By Panggah Ardiyansyah In December 2024, I returned to Jakarta and visited the Repatriasi (Repatriation) exhibition at the National Museum of Indonesia. This temporary exhibition is part of the museum’s highly anticipated reopening after the September 2023 fire which centered on the theme “Reimagining Cultural Inheritances.” It

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Citing the consequences of commercially salvaged artefacts

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Citing the consequences of commercially salvaged artefacts by Zainab Tahir The cohort’s visit in July 2024 to the Marine Heritage Gallery, a gallery managed by the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries in Jakarta, sparked conversation about the complexities surrounding the display. The Gallery features over three thousand commercially salvaged artefacts, recovered from the ninth-century

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Provenancing at work in Indonesia/Sri Lanka returns

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Provenancing at work in Indonesia/Sri Lanka returns by Emma Efkeman In early July 2023, the Netherlands announced a large-scale return to Sri Lanka and Indonesia of state-owned objects from their national museums. To Indonesia, 478 cultural artefacts including the famed Lombok treasure, stolen as war booty in 1894 from a Balinese palace, will be handed

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