Jakarta, August 5, 2024 - As part of the Australia-Indonesia Museums (AIM) Project, a sharing session was held at the Jakarta History Museum. The event included 25 participants from 5 museums managed by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government, namely the Jakarta History Museum, Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics, Textile Museum, Puppet Museum, and Maritime Museum.
The sharing session included presentations by Prof. Gaye Sculthorpe, Research Professor, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University, Australia, Corioli Souter, Head of the Department of Maritime Heritage, Western Australian Museum, who outlined approaches for provenance research used in Australia.
The session also included 5 presentations from curators from the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government on objects they have selected for the update of the Tetangga online exhibition. The objects include a Bubu (fish trap), collections of wayang puppets from the Indonesian revolution, a model of Padewakang boat from Sulawesi, a traditional musical instrument (macina) used for keroncong music, and a painting of Tanjung Priok by S. Sudjojono.
The workshop included a site visit for Prof. Gaye Sculthorpe and Corioli Souter, to explore the Jakarta History Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics. This visit provided the facilitators with a deeper understanding of the collections' contexts, aiding in the collaborative efforts to assess and curate the forthcoming exhibition.
The AIM project is made possible through funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) via the Australia-Indonesia Institute (AII) and involved a collaboration between the Indonesian Heritage Agency ((Ministry of Education, Culture,Research, and Technology), the Jakarta Provincial Government, Deakin University, the Western Australian Museum (WAM), Southeast Asia Museum Services (SEAMS), and several partner museums across Indonesia.
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